By: Teddy Grant

A Wisconsin NAACP chapter is requesting a compliance audit of a school district following a racially insensitive assignment about slavery, WISC-TV’s Channel 3000 reports.

Sixth-grade students at Patrick Marsh Middle School received a question on their virtual assignment asking, “A slave stands before you. This slave has disrespected his master by telling him ‘You are not my master!’ How will you punish this slave?”

Screenshot of the alleged racist assignment

The Dane County chapter of the historic organization released a statement on Saturday saying that the assignment exhibited “the lack of oversight on matters of race and history in the Sun Prairie curriculum, particularly the impact on students of color”; the assignment was “fundamentally racist”; and it was also indicative of a district “not in compliance with State Standards.”

The school district is joining the YMCA to engage with the community, will develop “a system-wide anti-racist culturally responsive instructional framework,” according to Channel 3000.

The instructors involved in the racially insensitive incident are on administrative leave as an investigation is underway.