“The wrap-up and the facilitation, that’s the most important part of it,” Ms. Blair said. “I was offended that it wasn’t even explained properly to the students, which just furthers bias and tensions.”Ms. Hartman asked her son about the exercise after discovering it amid his schoolwork early last week. “He said, ‘Well, we had to rate who we would take — it was kind of like “Survivor,”’” she recalled. She tried unsuccessfully to reach the principal, she said, before deciding to post a photo of the exercise on Facebook. He wrote that the project was “implanting prejudicial thoughts in these young impressionable minds.”The assignment was not fostering a “culture of caring,” Councilman Miller wrote.

Source: New York Times August 30, 2018 15:11 UTC