But things like this, she said, happen when there’s not an understanding of bias and history.Īnd these issues continue to pop up in the state.įor instance, a learning center came under fire earlier this year for having packets that claimed “most slaves were generally treated kindly.” Another school in Utah - Centennial Middle School in Provo - randomly assigned students to be slaves and slave masters for a project about the Civil War.

Love-Day noted that the issue with the post comes as the nation has been divided over the debate with critical race theory, with some conservative parents in Utah pushing for limits on how race is talked about in the classroom. Make your print ready-to-hang by upgrading to one of our unique frames. Already, Black students are disciplined at higher rates than their white peers for similar school infractions, multiple national studies have shown. Love-Day said: “No one wants to attend school when this is who the school sees as consistently behind bars.”Īnd it can be stressful, she said, for students to feel like they have to try to combat that narrative, to feel like they have to convince staff they’re not a criminal. Both said they were concerned by the depiction. It was put on Instagram under the account which has about 1,000 followers, in early November and then taken down after some critics reported their concerns.Ī screenshot of the post was shared with The Salt Lake Tribune by a staff member at the school, and its use was further confirmed by a former staff member who also saw it. In a picture accompanying the Evening Star piece, she held up game boards from the Landlord’s Game and another game that had the word MONOPOLY written across its center four times in bold black. Monopoly is a board game that originated in the. LOS ANGELES, CA/USA - MAY 8, 2015: Monopoly board game macro image. The post came from Summit Academy High School in Bluffdale. Macro image of Monopoly Game and Figures. “That’s who they felt deserved to be behind bars, seriously?” said Rae Duckworth, leader of the Utah chapter of Black Lives Matter. And they say they’re concerned about the impact of it on students of color. A Utah charter school invited its students to send their classmates to “lunch jail” as part of a fundraising event - and then promoted the campaign with an image of a Black child in an orange jumpsuit behind bars.Īdvocates are demanding to know how the ad for social media was approved, calling it insensitive and derogatory.

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