Teacher gets ‘F’ for KKK lesson

A SOUTH CAROLINA elementary school teacher assigned her fifth-grade students to imagine what it was like to be in the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.

The teacher has since been put on administrative leave while the LexingtonRichland School District investigates the incident.

The district said part of its curriculum is to teach fifth-graders about Reconstruction — the era after the Civil War — and the KKK, which emerged during this period, reported CBS affiliate WLTX.

Part of the assignment asked: “You are there . . . You are a member of the KKK. Why do you think your treatment of AfricanAmericans is justified?”

Tremain Cooper, who is black, posted his 10-yearold nephew’s partially completed homework assignment on Facebook. He left the Klan answer blank. “He’s home crying right now,” Cooper wrote.

The school district told WLTX it takes the matter “very seriously.”