Classmates 'sold off into slavery' to illustrate roman history

[Viggen]

Eleven-year-old Micaela Reyes' best friend and four other students were sold into slavery last week during a private-school lesson in Roman history and behavior reinforcement. The exercise was incorporated into a fifth-grade history lesson titled "Rome, Ruler of the Ancient World" at Eagle's Nest Christian Academy, a school in Milton for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade...

 

...read full article at Delaware Online

[Nephele]

"If they volunteered, that would have been one thing," she said. "But to take the kids at the bottom of the performance -- that's just like putting a big 'L' for loser on their foreheads."

 

I'd want to BRAND a big "L" on the forehead of my slave! Christian schools are fun! Wheeee!

 

-- Nephele

[Ursus]

I would gladly have sold my classmates into slavery. I would only have gotten a nickel for them, though.

[GhostOfClayton]

I wish they'd said a bit more about the Roman breakfast.

[Nephele]

Eagle's Nest Christian Academy? Anyone here making a connection to Kehlsteinhaus?

 

-- Nephele

[M. Porcius Cato]

The fact that the "Roman consul" had used his or her auctoritas to liberate the "slaves" suggests the kids readily detected that something wasn't fair about this whole affair.

[caldrail]

Throw the vendor to the lions, I say.

[Kosmo]

There are unexplained price differences, a sure sign of an immature market. The school must work on the supply side.

[Centurion-Macro]

Why all the fuss over it? It was role playing.