Principal transferred after asking to group white students
Source: MSN/Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. A white principal of a predominantly black elementary school who told her staff to put white students in the same classrooms is no longer at the Florida school.
Christine Hoffman requested a transfer off the Campbell Park Elementary School campus in St. Petersburg on Monday while district officials review her tenure.
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Parents are responding by calling for her resignation.
"The parents said that as black people we are used to being the only black person in the classroom and no one is making sure we are comfortable," said Ford, who attended the meeting and recounted Hoffman's conversation with parents. "The parents were not accepting of any excuse. We accept your apology, but you have to go."
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rpannier
(24,329 posts)But the way we've been digressing over the past few years, nothing really surprises me any more
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Her ass needs to be fired.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Massacure
(7,522 posts)It would have been one thing if she apologized and added more context around a somewhat logical reason around wanting a racially diverse classroom, but Tampa Bay Times (which is linked to by the MSN article in the OP) lists another bomb shell. I can understand someone's refusal to resign, but to refuse and back it up with the statement "I am the best thing that has happened to Campbell Park" just screams that this principal is completely tone deaf.
brush
(53,778 posts)She wants to start it in the school.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)There's quite a history at Campbell Park...