Principal apologizes for ‘racially insensitive’ scene in middle school play
In the scene, a character eats peanuts and is transformed into a monkey; in the school’s casting, the only Black student who was in the play performed that role.
Credit: WXIA Author: Jon Shirek Updated: 11:49 AM EDT May 5, 2021
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. School administrators in Forsyth County apologized, Monday, to students and parents, because of a performance of a play last week by a middle school drama club that included a scene that the administrators acknowledge was racially offensive.
And administrators are blaming themselves, not the students, for failing to make changes before the curtain went up.