Missouri Teacher Asks Kids To ‘Set Your Price For A Slave’

Missouri Teacher Asks Kids To ‘Set Your Price For A Slave’

Missouri teacher on leave after asking kids to ‘set your price for a slave’

“You begin to get involved in the slave trade industry … your product to trade is slaves,” the St. Louis grade school assignment stated.
A Missouri elementary school teacher has been placed on administrative leave for giving students an assignment that asked them to “set your price for a slave.”

The in-class work was given to a 5th grade Social Studies class last week at Blades Elementary School in St. Louis. School administrators became aware of it over the weekend after a photo of the assignment was posted on social media.

“It is so wrong on so many levels,” Lee Hart wrote on Facebook. Hart said her friend’s child attends the school and was given the assignment.

“This was supposedly a westward expansion lesson,” Hart posted. “Some were given food, wood, water, and slaves!!!!!”

The assignment, a copy of which was provided to NBC News by the Mehlville School District, instructs students to set a price for a number of items such as grain, fruit, fish, a container of oil and a cow. The last question asks the children to pick a price for a slave.

“You own a plantation or farm and therefore need more workers,” the lesson states. “You begin to get involved in the slave trade industry and have slaves work on your farm. Your product to trade is slaves.”

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