A father was troubled by his son’s homework assignment.
“It blowed my mind,” Eric Robinson said of an assignment asking fifth graders to create a wanted poster for a Ku Klux Klan member.
Robinson said the homework was a social studies assignment that his son and others received Wednesday at Clinton Elementary School.
Robinson provided FOX Carolina a copy.
Students were asked to sketch the person, provide three reasons why they’re a “bad guy” and a “quote from a person living at the time showing what people might have said about this person,” along with a reward amount.
“It’s okay to teach kids about hate groups… But to me she went too far with it,” Robinson said.
Laurens County School Superintendent David O’Shields said the assignment is a state requirement intended to teach students that the KKK was a criminal/terrorist organization that murdered people, participated in voter suppression and used violence to intimidate African Americans.
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