Staff allegedly took down an Escambia County teacher's posters of Black heroes. He quit

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An Escambia County public school teacher resigned this week over what he characterized as racist behavior by a school district employee.

The teacher, Michael James, emailed a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis and Escambia County Superintendent Tim Smith in which he wrote that a district employee removed pictures of historic Black American heroes from his classroom walls, citing the images as being "age inappropriate."

Images that were removed from the bulletin board at O.J. Semmes Elementary School included depictions of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriett Tubman, Colin Powell and George Washington Carver, James said.

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James chose the board's theme because the majority of the students and the residents in the neighborhoods that surround O.J. Semmes are Black, and he wanted to motivate his students with inspirational leaders they could easily look up to and see themselves.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/staff-allegedly-took-down-escambia-110059326.html

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1. sad he quit insted of fighting back nt

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2. Who does that!!!

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3. sounds like the school superintendent

was behind the teacher on this. It seems like this was a situation that could have been rectified? On the other hand - the deliberately poisoned atmosphere in the state ... That's not likely to be 'rectified' any time soon. A sad case. And the 'district employee' that decided on this action - really needs to be 'outed.'