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School curriculum

MILWAUKEE — Michelle Obama's brother and his wife sued their sons' former Milwaukee elementary school for kicking the boys out after the parents complained about offensive racial elements in the school's curriculum, including an Underground Railroad simulation in which Black students were told to act like runaway slaves and teachers acted as slave catchers.

Click here to read the complaint.  

Categories / Briefs, Civil Rights, Education

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