Montessori School Has Kids Do Blackface for Black History Month

[Nevilledog]

https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/02/parent-of-child-at-ic-kids-montessori-school-in-newton-upset-after-blackface-classroom-activity-was-used-to-celebrate-black-history-month.html

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When Nadirah Pierce picked up her children from IC Kids Montessori earlier this week, she noticed they were covered in black paint. They said it was for a Black History Month project.

Pierce didn’t think much of it until the school posted photos from the activity for parents online on Wednesday. That’s when she saw the children had painted faces on paper plates using the black paint and were holding them up to their faces.

IC Kids Montessori in Newton issued an apology for the Blackface incident but removed the post about an hour later and subsequently removed the school’s Facebook account entirely.

“To all who are offended, we sincerely apologize for what happened with one of our classroom activities: black face,” the school originally wrote on Facebook. “Our intention was to celebrate Black History Month. Unfortunately we didn’t do enough research on black history and carried out a wrong activity. We are sorry about it and we mean it!”

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Black face in liberal Massachusetts?

They must really have their heads in the sand.

[MontanaMama]

2. WTH is wrong with people? n/t

[LoisB]

3. Another non-apology apology: "To all who are offended...", "we didn't do enough research on

black history". I don't accept this "apology".

[orwell]

6. Bingo...

...fake apology. We see these bs apologies all the time.

Just apologize for the stupidity and be done with it.

[LoisB]

8. Exactly!

nt

[Docreed2003]

4. Didn't do enough research?

What a lame excuse. Does one really need to do research to know that blackface isn't appropriate?

[iemanja]

5. This country

[Solly Mack]

7. What a bullshit apology for their egregious actions.

Didn't do enough research on black history? A wrong activity?

To those offended?

Wow.

[Lunabell]

9. Holy shit!

What the actual fuck is wrong with people? Who in this world thinks that is ok? And to expose innocent children to such bigotry is child abuse.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

10. I know someone that

teaches at a Montessori school and she complains nonstop about how the black kids don't belong - I no longer have a working relationship with this person. Is there any way that I can make an anonymous complaint against her? How do you stay anonymous nowadays?

[NickB79]

11. In 6th grade a kid came to class on Halloween as the TV character Erkle

This was 1989, in a town of 400 people in rural Minnesota. Not a POC for miles. Literally, our community was so white, I didn't even talk to a Hispanic or Asian kid until I was 15, and a Black person until I was 18 in college.

Anyway, he did Blackface using cocoa powder. We'd all do a parade around the elementary school to show off our costumes.

Every adult absolutely LOVED his costume. Nathan was very popular that year.

[bullwinkle428]

12. GODDAMN. "Blackface" was a "no-go zone" when I was growing up in

the 1970s!! How the fuck does someone TODAY not realize this?

[Iggo]

13. Non-apology. (n/t)

[no_hypocrisy]

14. White Privilege apology

[milestogo]

15. "we didn't do enough research on black history"

we are morons, in other words

[BlueIdaho]

16. So much for the wonders

Of a Montessori education…