Parent objects to class assignment

LEANDER, Texas—A Texas parent has objected to a Civil War-related history assignment in which her 12-year-old daughter was told to draw a picture of herself as a slave.

Tonya Jennings of Austin contacted the Leander Independent School District Friday about seventh-graders studying slave life in Texas in the 1850s.

Students were told to draw a picture of themselves as slaves, color the picture, then write a sentence that describes the surroundings.

Jennings, who is AfricanAmerican, says there’s nothing about slavery that she’d want any child to have to relive.