MARIETTA, Ga. – A Georgia teacher is facing undisclosed disciplinary action for playing a “slavery” game with elementary students after a grandparent of a black student in the class complained.

A fifth grade teacher at Cobb County’s Cheatham Hill Elementary School upset a 10-year-old black student with a game last week that asked students to pretend that they were slaves and attempt to escape a plantation through the underground railroad, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

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The fifth-graders would roll dice to determine whether they make it to the woods or are sent back to the plantation, and the only black girl in the class was sent back to the plantation and “beaten” numerous times, according to WSB.

Grandmother Delores Bunch-Keemer told the news site that when her granddaughter came home from school Tuesday, “she was very concerned.

“I could see the expression on her face,” she said.

Bunch-Keemer that when students were returned to the plantation in the game, “her teacher said they would be beaten cause they didn’t like their work.”

“She said she went back to the plantation six times, so that was a consistent feeling of being degraded, and I have to be beaten when I go back to the plantation,” she said.

Bunch-Keemer said she went to Cheatham and discussed the game with the teacher, who only made matters worse when she attempted to explain that the game, and others, were meant to teach students history.

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The teacher told Bunch-Keemer that she had never received any complaints about the game before, and the grandmother attempted to use an analogy to convey her frustrations.

“If we did a game, like a Holocaust game, and people had to roll the dice about whether they were going to go into the gas chamber or not, I said ‘do you see the similarity to that,’” she said. “And she still didn’t see that it was wrong.”

WSB contacted the Cobb County School District about the game and received a prepared statement that promises to correct the situation.

“Cheatham Hill administrators were not aware in advance of the activity,” the statement read. “The activity in question was not an approved lesson plan. School officials are taking the appropriate personnel action with the teacher.”

The statement didn’t identify the teacher or divulge what the “appropriate personnel action” might be.

A lot of folks who commented on Facebook seem to think the incident is overblown.

“Are you serious? What are we teaching our kids?” Amy Gay wrote. “This is a history lesson and slavery actually happened. Get over it, and tell your kids the truth. It happened, and educate them on how it was abolished and how the civil rights movement is still happening because of weak minded people. Don’t hide and act like our history isn’t ugly and offensive.”

“If you think the game is ‘traumatic,’ imagine actual slavery,” Zach Hahn posted.

“Traumatic? Please,” Maria Harris wrote. “They need to understand what their ancestors went through so they could be free and how disgusted they would be at the stupid and deplorable things they do and say to continue to enslave themselves.”

“I am familiar with this, it is not a game, but a simulation. It’s amazing to read what the children write about the activity,” Sue Reber added. “It truly shows that the children understand what the slaves went through, with the Underground Railroad. Shame on this woman for treating this excellent teacher so horribly.”