When I was in High School in Saint Louis, we played Popular Bluff High School in sports.
Let’s just say I am not surprised by this.
According to a statement from the Poplar Bluff R-I School District, all of the students in the American History class were divided into study groups to make presentations focused on amendments to the Constitution.
Superintendent Scott Dill said the groups were in costume, representing different historical facets of the assigned amendments.
One group was assigned the 15th Amendment – “ensuring the rights of citizens to vote would not be denied or abridged by the United States on account of race or color. As part of the presentation, students discussed the adverse historical actions of certain organizations that actively engaged in the suppression of voter rights.”
The school district stated that at this time, they have no reason to believe the student was acting with any discriminatory intent.
The teacher was suspended but that seems more of a reaction to bad press than the school thinking the teacher did anything wrong.
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