An email-writing effort to convince education leaders to unmask school children is underway along with a counter effort to maintain mask wearing.
The Board of Education also has heard from people calling for mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training at the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District after a Lathrop High School teacher made comments about race and police brutality that spurred complaints.
The board, at its regular meeting Tuesday, additionally saw a couple of parents call out the Waldorf-inspired Boreal Sun Charter School for racist comments made about 100 years ago by the European founder of the Waldorf education method. Public education leaders renewed a contract with the charter school, and asked for a diversity report later this year.
Fairbanks teacher on leave after ‘racially insensitive’ comments on George Floyd in class Author: Dan Bross and Robyne, KUAC Updated: May 11 and is republished with permission. FAIRBANKS A Fairbanks teacher has been put on administrative leave after comments she made during a discussion about George Floyd in her class at Lathrop High School, according to school officials. A parent notified the school of the comments last Wednesday. In a letter to parents on Friday, Lathrop High School Principal Carly Sween described the comments as “racially insensitive.” The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has not publicly named the teacher, but a 15-minute video of the class posted online shows a teacher identified as Ms. Gardner. Connie Gardner is a special education teacher at Lathrop High.
Alaska high school teacher is suspended for telling Zoom class that George Floyd would still be alive if he had complied with police and sidled into their car
A teacher caught on camera telling her students over Zoom that George Floyd would still be alive if he complied with police officers has been suspended
The Lathrop High School teacher was talking to her students in a 15-minute video posted to YouTube about police killing black people
It is unclear how the conversation started
In the video, the teacher, identified as Ms. Gardner, said police do not have time to choose between their gun and a taser in interactions
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has not publicly named the teacher, but a 15-minute video of the class posted online, shows a teacher identified as Ms. Gardner. Connie Gardner is a special education teacher at Lathrop. The video shows her leading a conversation about police killing black people, including the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin. Gardner does not defend Chauvin but says Floyd would be alive if he had complied with police orders.
“I’m an old white lady and if the cops came up to me and said mam, put your hands behind your back, you’re going to jail…I’m putin’ my hands behind my back.”
Last week, Karen Melin was selected to be interim chief school administrator for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in a unanimous vote of the Board of Education. The