Teachers, parents and students of Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science are outraged after social studies instructors received a pink slip from the school’s principal for teaching Black history to students.
“The school administration does not want the social studies teachers to teach African-American history,” parent Shannon Settle told Washington DC’s ABC7. “We are on the campus of an HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities]. We need to know our culture; the school is 90-percent African American.”
Making matters worse, the principal Angelicque Blackmon decided to serve the teachers their pink slips in the classrooms in front of their students.
“While students are still present in the classroom? How unprofessional,” says parent Delrica Battle. “These children are crying. They said they couldn’t say goodbye. The teachers are upset, the students are upset.”
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