April 11th 2023.
A history teacher at Kahla Middle School in Harris County, Texas, is facing an investigation after allegedly teaching a racist lesson plan about slavery and the Civil War that left an 8th grader, the only Black student in the class, feeling hurt and embarrassed, Click 2 Houston reports.
The student's mother, Tori Ards, was informed by her daughter last Thursday, claiming the teacher said the Confederate flag had “nothing to do with slavery” and “history got it wrong.” Ards reported the incident to the assistant principal, who apologized and promised to look into it. ABC 13 reports that another incident occurred the following week.
The teacher reportedly used the child as an example of fugitive enslavement, having her stand in front of the class and saying, “I could snatch her and take her to the South and sell her during slavery!”
Community leaders, including Quanell X with New Black Panther Nation, Candice Matthews with the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, and Sledge Leonidas with the Houston Caribbean Professionals Association, have called for the teacher's removal. “This woman is crazy as hell!” Quanell X said. “We have teachers, who are racists and bigots in the classrooms, in charge of the responsibility of shaping and developing young minds and want to rewrite history to desensitize slavery, human bondage, lynching, and deprivation of Black people in America and here in the south.”
The teacher in question has been placed on leave and the school is conducting a thorough investigation into the allegations. School principal, Joshua Carroll, released a statement stating the staff member will not be on campus until the investigation is complete. Ards says her daughter has already been affected by the incident. “It’s affecting my daughter tremendously. And, of course, consequently affecting me,” she said. “It’s just a very emotionally-charged situation.”
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