Teacher In Virginia Instructed Students To Play 'runaway slave game' in P.E. Class: The Latest

Tuesday night was the first Loudoun County School Board meeting since the firestorm of backlash after a student reported they had participated in a "runaway slave" game during gym class at Madison's Trust Elementary School in early February.

At a press conference before the meeting began, Loudoun County NAACP's president, Pastor Michelle Thomas, called for 20 percent more minorities in the Loudoun County Public School system. Thomas says 17 of Loudoun County's public schools do not have African American teachers. 

Madison's Trust's gym teachers only have two African American colleagues.

"They only had two people in the whole building who they could confer with if this incident or this lesson plan was culturally insensitive," said Thomas. "We need to diversify our hiring today." 

The NAACP is also calling for Loudoun County Superintendent Eric Williams' resignation.

In his report on Tuesday, Williams apologized to the broader community for the incident and the "inequities that continue to exist." Information about the "game" surfaced around the same time Williams called for more equity in LCPS at a meeting in early February. 

THE ORIGINAL STORY:

During the class, 3rd-grade students were urged to overcome a physical barrier, said Loudoun County Public School spokesman Wayde Byard.

About 10 families complained after their children participated in the gym class.

“It’s awful,” local NAACP President Michelle Thomas told NBC Washington. “It’s really insulting. It makes me feel unsafe because I have kids in Loudoun County Public Schools.”

“It shows that there’s some implicit bias problems right here at this school,” she added.

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Like many of you I am still outraged over this story, and this is why as parents we must pay more attention to our children school districts and who's teaching in it. This is very disrespectful and degrading that it's just sickening and makes me question what are children really learning? Not just in Virginia, but in other states where closeted White Supremacist reside.