Kan. principal ordered to apologize for showing video on racism
WICHITA — A Kansas high school principal was forced to apologize for showing a video about white privilege
during an employee meeting.
Tim Hamblin, principal at Derby High School, shared a four-minute video during a staff in-service day last month
that featured Black author Joy DeGruy. In it, the author relates a story about being treated differently at a store
because of her race, and how a lighter-skinned family member spoke up for her.
“She used her white privilege to educate and make right a situation that was wrong,” DeGruy says in the 2011 video.
“That’s what you can do every single day.”
Members of the Derby High girls basketball team were shown the same video in response to race-based comments
made toward some team members on social media late last year.
Hamblin shared the video with staff members in January so they would be aware of what the students had seen,
he explained in the email.
A teacher who attended the meeting told a Derby school board member the video was offensive and created a hostile
work environment. The board member then directed Hamblin to apologize for showing it.
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Appears the principal got in hot water for attempting to educate students to be kind to each other.
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