Bad judgement: In Mt. Pleasant HS lesson compares police to slaveowners and the KKK

I would call that beyond stupid and the teacher should resign. Why would anyone want to join any police department? In LOHUD -

The cartoon in question depicted a slave owner, a KKK member and a police officer with their knees on the necks of black men. It was included in a three-page lesson about the Black Lives Matter protests that are ongoing across the country. The lesson was in a common format known as "document based question" or DBQ, which asks students to draw conclusions based on several documents and points of view.

The Board of Ed. meeting was filled with angry parents - they couldn't all fit in the gym.

More than 20 parents addressed the Board of Education at Westlake High School on Wednesday night during a public comment period that lasted nearly two hours. Several choked up as they explained how they were hurt by the cartoon.

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The teacher, who has not been named by school district officials, apologized in a district statement Tuesday for using the cartoon, saying "I recognize that it can be seen as disrespectful to law enforcement."

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Thank you for posting this follow-up. Parents have every right to be concerned about exactly what is being taught to their children---at taxpayer expense. In any case, I was only aware of the original NY Post article. https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/school-under-fire-for-lesson-comparing-cops-to-kkk-slave-owners/