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Should the teacher have been suspended.
Yes read the links
https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-...ded-after-student-dresses-as-klansman-2018-11
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tea...klux-klan-member-class-project-182212158.html
Yes read the links
https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-...ded-after-student-dresses-as-klansman-2018-11
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A southern Missouri teacher who oversaw a history class presentation in which a ninth-grader dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan has apologized for a "lapse of judgment" and is suspended indefinitely, the superintendent of the predominantly white district said Tuesday.
The Poplar Bluff student who dressed as a Klansman Friday was playing the villain in a skit about voter suppression during a presentation with other students about the 15th Amendment, Poplar Bluff district superintendent Scott Dill said.
The amendment awarded voting rights to black men. Other groups in the class were assigned other amendments.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tea...klux-klan-member-class-project-182212158.html
According to the superintendent, the student’s group had chosen heroes and villains to present the 15th Amendment, and the KKK costume signified the latter. “We’ve been told that the kid crafted the costume at home without the teacher’s knowledge, brought it to school in a bag, put it on just before the skit, and afterward left it with the teacher,” Dill tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Over the weekend, as a photo of the student went viral, Dill met with various community leaders, and on Monday, Bishop Ron Webb, a local civil rights activist, accompanied him to school to address students.