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Rochester school Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small says several staff members at School 17 have been placed on leave for exchanging text messages with racist and demeaning comments about students.

Teacher Under Fire For Lesson Where Black Kids Picked Cotton + Wore Shackles 

A white teacher in Rochester has been placed on leave after teaching a slavery lesson where his Black students have to pick cotton.

A Black mother is angry, claiming her daughter and her Black and brown classmates were forced to pick seeds from cotton and subjected to shackles and

Rochester City School District Board of Education announced that Rochester School of the Arts teacher, Patrick Rausch, has been placed on leave following complaints from parents about his teaching method.

A teacher at an arts school in Rochester, New York, faces accusations of racist behavior including placing handcuffs on students, most of them Black.

A Rochester, New York, teacher has been placed on leave, according to a statement from the Rochester City School District Board of Education, after parents alleged he made his students

Parents at a school in Rochester, N.Y., said Patrick Rausch, a white social studies teacher, had also instructed his seventh-grade students to call him “massah.”

"I am a very, very angry parent, and I'm going to stand on all 10 of my toes until I get justice."

Patrick Rausch has been suspended until further notice by Rochesters School of the Arts after two seventh-graders at the school reported the social science teachers alleged racist behavior.