racism in schools
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School Says Story That Principal Cut Off Student’s Locs Is ‘Total Fabrication’; Won’t Discipline Staff
After a mother in Jones County, Miss., wrote a viral Facebook post Tuesday claiming that her son’s elementary school principal called him into the office and chopped off his locs, school officials launched an investigation into the matter, reviewing security-camera footage and interviewing administrators, staff and students. The Jones County investigation, which appears to have…
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Florida Middle School Teacher Accused of Using Racial Slur, Telling Students Not to Date Black Boys ‘Because They Are Not Worth It’
Florida strikes again. This time a middle school teacher apparently thought it was cool to use a racial slur in conversation with students. According to ActionNewsJax, the principal of Kernan Middle School contacted the Office of Equity and Inclusion/Professional Standards after getting a complaint from the parent of a student. The teacher in question, identified…
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Florida Teacher Claims Her White Nationalist Podcast Was ‘Satire’
Dayanna Volitich, the Crystal River, Fla., middle school social studies teacher who was recently accused by HuffPost of hosting a white nationalist podcast, has confirmed that the podcast is hers. However, Volitich, who ran the show under the pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov,” claims that the whole thing was satire. WFLA-TV, an ABC News affiliate, published a…
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Florida Middle School Teacher Outed as ‘Unapologetic’ White Supremacist
In an exclusive report, HuffPost has revealed evidence suggesting that a 25-year-old Florida middle school teacher, Dayanna Volitich, has been secretly hosting a white nationalist podcast. In the Unapologetic podcast, which Volitich hosts under the alias “Tiana Dalichov,” Volitich brags about bringing her racist beliefs into her Crystal River Middle School classroom. “I get to…
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Michigan Parents Pull Child From School After Teacher, Other Students Make Racist Remarks
A family in Utica, Mich., pulled their child from her school after, they say, a substitute teacher and other students directed racist remarks at her. Juan Sifuentes, who is Mexican, and Kim Sifuentes, who is black, told Click on Detroit that the bullying their daughter Nayeli faced at Switzer Elementary School got worse after Donald…
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The Gun Laws Moving Forward in the Florida Legislature Could Make Schools Especially Dangerous for Students of Color
On Monday, during an intense state Senate committee hearing on gun control, Florida lawmakers struck down a ban on assault rifles and approved an amendment allowing educators to carry firearms in school. Speaking on the floor during the session, Florida state Sen. Oscar Braynon told the room that “the talk” he gave his young boys…
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2 Employees Fired for ‘Racially Insensitive’ Black History Month Meal Were White, Student Group Says
Updated Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, 9:15 a.m. EST: A student group advocating for minority and marginalized students at New York University has issued a statement clarifying what happened at the university last week following a controversial Black History Month meal at the school. On Sunday afternoon, the Governance Council of Minority and Marginalized Students at…
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Lena Horne’s Family Responds to NYC Principal Accused of Blocking Black History Month Lessons
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, at 2:40 p.m. EST: Following reports that a Bronx, N.Y., middle school principal confiscated a poster of Lena Horne from a student, Jenny Lumet, granddaughter of the legendary actress, issued a statement to The Root on behalf of the Horne family: The Horne Family sends its love, support, and deepest…
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PTA in NYC Catches Heat for Using Blackface Photo for Fundraiser Message in the Year of Our Lord 2018
The Facebook post seemed innocuous enough. The parent-teacher association for Public School 118, The Maurice Sendak Community School, in Brooklyn, N.Y., had settled on a theme for its fundraiser: “Speakeasy.” The announcement, posted in January, came with an image broadcasting the date of the event and some 1920s Prohibition-era photos for the themed event. The…
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NYC Investigates Principal Who Barred Black History Month Lessons From Being Taught at Her Middle School: Report
The New York City Department of Education is investigating a white middle school principal in the city’s Bronx borough for racially hostile actions against staff and students of color. The most incendiary charge: that Principal Patricia Catania barred Black History Month lessons from being taught to the students of Intermediate School 224—95 percent of whom…