Student: Teacher Forced Him to Pick Cotton in Game

An Arlington County mother says her jaw hit the floor when her eighth grader returned from school recently and described the activity he was forced to do in class. Her son is the only Black student in his class, and the teacher told him and his classmates to cover their noses with Vaseline and dip their faces into a bucket to see how much cotton they could pick up. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder has the story and the school district’s response.