Principal Christine Hoffman, leader of an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Florida, sent out a seeminglyracist email to the rest of her staff.
In a letter about classroom rosters for the new school year, the Tampa Bay Times reports that the principal wrote to the Campbell Elementary staff:
White students should be in the same class.
Word about the email made its way to parents, who called for her to resign. Hoffman did apologize and put in a request to be transferred to another school.
She wrote in a resignation letter published by the Bay News 9:
Due to recent events, my presence has created a distraction. As a result, Ive requested to transfer and allow another person to lead this school.
So she can go over to the next school and promotesegregation there, too? Jurys out on that, as well as whether or not she will actually be transferred. This sad situation shows that racism is as much an institution ingrade schools as it is anywhere.
Here are a few more instances that show just howoften school-aged kids experience racism like us adults:
1. People keep tryingtheseun-funny promposals.
Racist promposals are sadly as expected as prom itself, just much less enjoyable.
2. Ateacher cut a black first gradershair.
7-year-old Lamya Cammon was playing with her hair too much for the teachers liking. The teacher was suspended, butthen allowed back into the classroom.
3. NC kids gotan assignmentabout a bombing and had to pick survivors by race.
Yeah. The kids were asked to choose, by race, who would survive a nuclear attack, reports a local Charlotte news station.
4. Boston high school students were told to go back to Africa by classmates.
High school seniors at the Boston Latin School,Meggie Noel and Kylie Webster-Cazeau, launched a campaign called #BlackatBLS after being bullied on Twitter by classmates, reported HuffPost.
They printed out 25 of the racist posts their classmates had posted on social media, and sent them to school officials. After BLS staff failed to rectify the situation, the protest grew into a citywide movement throughoutall of the Boston Public Schools.
5. Michigan students taunted Latinoclassmates with a build the wall chant.
Thanks, Donald.
6. A Jews vs. Nazis game happened at a New Jersey high school party.
Its kind of like beer pong, but with underaged drinking and cups organized in the shapes of a swastika and the Star of David.
The teenager who outed the participants via Snapchat wrote a blog about it if your curiosity so moves you.
7. Middle school kids in Florida were given a test full of racist stereotypes.
Ladies and gentlemen, the How Comfortable Are You Test:
A spokesperson for the Hernando County School District told Bustle,
In no way does this assignment meet the standards of appropriate instructional material. After being made aware of the assignment, school administration began an investigation and has taken immediate disciplinary action.
This teacher was within her probationary period and has been released from employment.
8. Were not going to forget the time a young black studentwas flipped out of her desk by a cop.
Yeah, that happened.
9. Black slaves were referenced as immigrants in a Houston high school textbook.
A Texas mom blasted the debauchery on Facebook:
Many of you asked about my son’s textbook. Here it is. Erasure is real y’all!!! Teach your children the truth!!!#blacklivesmatter
Posted by Roni Dean-Burren on Thursday, October 1, 2015
Book publisher, McGraw-Hill, plans to revise and republish now.
10. A 6th grader was threatened with suspension for his normal hair cut.
A 12-year-old student, Xavier Davis at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, Texas, was told to either fix his hair cut or be suspended, reported Click 2 Houston.
The two lines in his hair were considered a distraction. His dad says hes shown up to the school with the same haircut for at least six months.
11. Second graders in LA were given a math problem askingthem tocount slaves needed in cotton fields.
The students at the magnet school (designed for those gifted in math and science) were were also asked to do a math problem about a slave man mailing himself to freedom, reported NBC Los Angeles.
Karol Gray, grandmother of a 7-year-old student there, said,
Although it has racial undertones, I feel the worse undertone is, What are we teaching our children?’
Right. What we teaching children?
Childrenin grade schools are no safer from racism than adults.
Theyre getting physically violated by the adults they aresupposed to trust.
Classmates they are forced to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with daily are verbally abusing them on and offline. And to make matters worse, theyre beingtaught damaging lessons that theyare required to learn and regurgitate back as a measure of their intelligence.
So yeah, the entire school system gets a whole L for this ongoing BS.
source http://allofbeer.com/2017/08/23/grade-schools-are-having-a-huge-issue-with-racism-and-we-need-to-talk-about-it/
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