Leander parent objects to daughter, 12, drawing slave picture of self

LEANDER, Texas (AP) — A Leander parent has objected to a Civil War-related history assignment in which her 12-year-old daughter was told to draw a picture of herself as a slave.
Tonya Jennings of Austin on Friday contacted the Leander Independent School District about seventh-graders studying slave life in Texas in the 1850s.
Students were told to draw a picture of themselves as slaves, color the picture, then write a sentence that describes the surroundings using each of the five senses &