{"id":4261,"date":"2011-03-07T17:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:24:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:24:59","slug":"ohio-school-sorry-for-making-black-student-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4261","title":{"rendered":"Ohio School Sorry  For Making Black Student &#8216;Slave&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAHANNA, OH\u00a0 &#8212; The mother of a black Ohio fifth grader assigned to play a slave for a social studies lesson says the school should be more sensitive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal Scott Schmidt<\/strong> of Chapelfield Elementary in Gahanna (guh-HA&#8217;-nuh) called <strong>Aneka Burton<\/strong> to apologize for what happened to her son, <strong>Nikko<\/strong>. <strong>Schmidt<\/strong> said no harm was intended.<\/p>\n<p>Ten-year-old <strong>Nikko<\/strong> says the class was randomly divided into &#8220;masters&#8221; and &#8220;slaves&#8221; and that the only other black student got to be a master. <strong>Burton<\/strong> says her son refused to take part in a simulated slave auction and was sent back to his desk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burton<\/strong> says she appreciates the apology, but the exercise was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The school district said in a statement Thursday that officials acted promptly once the concern was raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAHANNA, OH\u00a0 &#8212; The mother of a black Ohio fifth grader assigned to play a slave for a social studies lesson says the school should be more sensitive. Principal Scott Schmidt of Chapelfield Elementary in Gahanna (guh-HA&#8217;-nuh) called Aneka Burton to apologize for what happened to her son, Nikko. Schmidt said no harm was intended. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}