Kerri Roberts (Oak Pointe Elementary School Teacher)
Kerri Roberts (Oak Pointe Elementary School Teacher)
Kerri Roberts is a teacher at Oak Pointe Elementary School. She teaches the fifth grade. She is in currently in the news for assigning her students with a worksheet that asks them to explain the Ku Klux Klan.
Controversial Homework Assignment
Kerri Robers' worksheet, asking her students, "You are a member of the KKK.
Tremaine Cooper's second Facebook post about Kerri Roberts, giving a hypothetical scenario about a German teacher
Tremain Cooper's third Facebook post about Kerri Roberts
On September 14, 2017, Kerri Roberts taught a class about the Reconstruction Era. As a homework assignment, the students were asked to fill out a worksheet. One of the questions was:
You are a member of the K.K.K. Why do you think your treatment of African Americans is justified? [1]
One of the students' uncles, Tremaine Cooper, took a photo of the worksheet and posted it on Facebook with the following caption:
CHECK IT OUT FAMILY. CHECK IT OUT FAMILY. I NEED YALL TO HELP ME. THIS IS MY LITTLE 10 YEAR OLD NEPHEW'S HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT today. HE'S HOME CRYING RIGHT NOW. THE TEACHER'S NAME IS KERRI ROBERTS AT OAKPOINT ELEMENTARY IN DISTRICT 5 IN IRMO, SC right outside of my hometown of Columbia, S.C. HOW CAN SHE ASK A 5TH GRADER TO JUSTIFY THE ACTIONS OF THE KKK??? WE ARE CONTACTING EVERYBODY FROM THE SCHOOL TO THE MEDIA. PLEASE HELP. PLEASE SHARE. #KerriRoberts #OakpointElementary #District5 #IrmoSC [1]
The next day, he made another Facebook post, creating an analogy between the KKK and Nazism:
Tremaine Cooper's second Facebook post about Kerri Roberts, giving a hypothetical scenario about a German teacher Imagine a German teacher with the audacity to send a 10 year old Jewish boy home with a homework assignment that would even remotely suggest justifying Nazi actions toward Jewish people. That school system would be reprimanded immediately by the entire Jewish community in the U.S. [666666]
He continued with another post:
Tremain Cooper's third Facebook post about Kerri Roberts Imagine a male teacher with the audacity of sending a 10 year old girl home with a homework assignment that would even remotely suggest justifying the actions of the man that raped her. That teacher would be reprimanded immediately by the entire community. [undefined]
Aftermath
As of September 19, 2017, Kerri Roberts has been put on administrative leave and is currently under investigation.