In one video students sang, "I like it when you don't talk back." Parents in Rock Hill, S.C., say they are outraged after seeing a video of their fifth-grade students picking cotton while singing ...

When we portray a sugar-coated version of history, one of happily picking cotton and singing songs, then we miss an opportunity to teach the truth.” The students were on a field trip to the ...

The permission slip given to parents mentioned "cotton picking" and the Great Depression ... trip to the school for a Black History Month field trip. More Screenshot/Google Maps His mother ...

He pictured enslaved people and sharecroppers who were brutalized while picking cotton, then took that message to school officials. They pledged to address the field trip. “They haven’t come ...

A class trip to teach students about the Great Depression, has a South Carolina mom upset after she learned her child instead ended up picking cotton in a field while singing old negro spirituals.

The assistant principal further explained that the cotton field was created so students could have a “real-life experience” with slavery by picking cotton themselves. “Completely incensed ...