San Francisco teacher under fire after reportedly using cotton plants to teach about slavery 

The unidentified Creative Arts Charter School teacher was out of her classroom for five weeks after the controversial lesson; parents are divided.

An eighth-grade teacher at San Francisco’s Creative Arts Charter School brought cotton plants in to show her class the sharp edges of the shrubs while teaching about slavery in the U.S., as well as the cotton gin and its impact on enslavement and the Industrial Revolution. 

The social studies teacher, who is not being named by  today!

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