"It was kind of like tag, but we were slaves and slave catchers," mother Ericka Lasley said her daughter told her, the station reports.
Another parent, Charvia Rivers, says her children reported the same thing, but Gwinnett County Schools spokesman Jorge Quintana told the station that a district investigation found that the teacher did not organize the game.
"The district determined that the activity was student-initiated and that allegations regarding the teacher’s involvement were unfounded," Quintana said in a statement to the station. Nevertheless, the district is planning to hold diversity training for teachers in light of the incident.
Following the protest, the district launched an investigation and found four teachers to be responsible for the problems. A spokesperson told the Associated Press [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/slavery-math-problems-pro_n_1214028.html ] that one of the teachers resigned, but would not comment on the other three.
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