Mock student slave auction rocks private Westchester school
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A white teacher at The Village Lutheran Church, Chapel School allegedly held a mock slave auction with her black students as part of a fifth-grade history lesson for her class. March 8, 2019. (Ellen Moynihan / New York Daily News)
A white teacher at a Westchester County school held a mock slave auction with her black students as part of a fifth-grade history lesson for her class — plunging the private institution into chaos, a parent and sources with knowledge of the situation told the Daily News Friday.
Administrators at the Chapel School in Bronxville are investigating the allegation that the teacher allowed her white students to bid on black students who pretended to be slaves during a fake auction Tuesday.
The matter is currently being investigated by school officials and is also being probed by state Attorney General Letitia James.
Vernex Harding, of Bronxville, said her son, who is black, was one of the students singled out by teacher Rebecca Antinozzi for the controversial history lesson.
Harding said her family is rattled by the incident and she’s spoken to the school’s leadership.
“I’m shocked and infuriated that this happened to my son,” said Harding, who is an educational administrator at another school. “I’m very shaken.”
Harding said her son told her Tuesday night that Antinozzi brought three of her black students out of the classroom and into the school hallway where she pretended to place them in shackles.
Harding said Antinozzi then brought the three black students back into class where she conducted a mock slave auction of the students, with the white kids in class posing as wealthy slave owners and the teacher acting as auctioneer…
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