Principal AND teachers are suspended for this picture

[Demovictory9]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7015489/Principal-teachers-suspended-California-elementary-school-photo-posing-NOOSE.html




Principal AND teachers are suspended from California elementary school after leaked photo showed them posing and grinning with a NOOSE
Image circulated alongside a separate one of a noose after the principal reportedly shared it in an email to teachers earlier this month
It then spread via Instagram and outraged parents called for them to be fired
Principal was put on leave Wednesday evening after school district was notified
Teachers were placed on administrative leave Thursday after parent protests
Many parents have pulled their worried children from class and one said there had been issues of race involving her daughter prior to this scandal
Summerwind teacher said there's a 'lack of people of color' teaching at school
Third of students are black, a third Hispanic but there are a few black teachers
A parent said: 'You hate them little Spanish babies. All them little minorities'

A California principal and four teachers have been placed on administrative leave after an image circulated showing them smiling as they posed with a noose.

Linda Brandt, the principal of Summerwind Elementary School in Palmdale, reportedly shared a photograph of showed four teachers smiling as they posed with a rope tied into a noose.

After the photo leaked, another emerged of a noose hanging from a wall within the school.

While some suspect the photo may be have been a 'back-to-school necklaces' – an insider joke among educators that suggests they want to kill themselves just thinking about returning to their job after the school break – the picture has been slammed as insensitive or outright racist by others.

[spanone]

1. The trump effect...it's stunning...

[ProudLib72]

2. And yet, after ten years teaching in an urban setting with marginalized students

I still can't get hired by a high school.

Kind of makes you wonder about two things: 1. This "wonderful" economy. 2. The idiocy inherent in our education system.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Do you think there could be some validity to the insider joke of which they spoke

[ProudLib72]

4. Maybe. Teachers get up to some really stupid shit

It's still no excuse for this. Honestly, I would have done some more investigating before firing of everyone. And even if they were just making a statement about not wanting to go back to school, nooses are an exceedingly dumb idea. Teachers usually get put on probation for something like this, which makes me wonder what else might have happened in the past.

[Drahthaardogs]

6. I kind of reject the idea that ANY picture of a noose is racist.

It's not.

[greyl]

5. If they were joking about hanging themselves, easier to use those ID badge neck straps

already around their necks. They were all joking about a noose, specifically.