One of the parents, Trameka Brown-Berry, uploaded a photo of her son Jerome’s home assignment to her Facebook page, asking if anyone else found her fourth-grader’s homework offensive. The picture received over 2,700 shares and nearly 400 comments.
The social studies homework assignment was supposed to make children think of three “good” reasons for slavery and three bad ones. Jerome, for his part, responded to the slavery question, “I feel like there is no good reason for slavery that’s why I did not write.”
The image sparked a tsunami of reactions on Facebook, with users proud of the boy’s response:
"The moral of the story is, the only way to teach our kids to stand up for their rights and respect is to model it," she wrote. "With all of your support I was able to give my child a personal life lesson about how change starts with you."