Building Brains Academy said the incident took place after the toddler’s class “spontaneously decided to act out” elements of Rosa Parks’ historic story, including her arrest.
The NAACP has demanded an investigation into a Florida daycare center after a 2-year-old was handcuffed there during a civil rights lesson on
They asserted that a class at the multicultural school was learning about Parks’ legacy and the necessity of treating each other equally.
In the moment, the class “spontaneously decided to act out elements of Ms. Parks’ story, including her arrest for refusing to give up her seat at the front of the bus,” the institution shared.
“Our school believes in and teaches the importance of equality, of standing up for our rights, and of speaking up when we see something isn’t right,” its statement said. “We teach these lessons not to celebrate the wrongdoings of others in the past, but to encourage our children to prevent such actions in the future. We deeply regret the assumption that our teachers, our leadership, or our administration would in any way choose to make a child feel uncomfortable or negatively singled out.”
However, the toddler’s parents contended there are “many [other] ways to teach the Rosa Parks story,” according to Fox 35.
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