Sadly, this is both quite common and not recommended. “5. We often rely on pedagogy poorly suited to the topic. When we asked teachers to tell us about their favorite lesson when teaching about slavery, dozens proudly reported classroom simulations. Simulation of traumatic experiences is not shown to be effective as a learning strategy and can harm vulnerable children.” [https://www.splcenter.org/20180131/teaching-hard-history](https://www.splcenter.org/20180131/teaching-hard-history)

When I was young, I experienced this kind of discrimination and singling out in the form of references to Native American, African American, and Mexican peoples, while I don't directly belong to any of those groups. Albeit this report seems somewhat extreme, I am pretty sure this happens subtly all the time when you have classrooms with a majority of one race and deeply systemic racism like we have in U.S. In my opinion, it is one of the roots of how privilege is established and white power is held on a fundamental - school grade level, that permeates the participates forever.