St. Martin de Porres School: White headmaster placed on leave after telling a Black student to kneel

[dawg day]

5. This was his terrible crime working on an assignment during reading time

he'd been sent to the headmaster's office for working on an assignment in his Literature class during designated reading time.

Paul said her son's teacher took the assignment, tore it up, and brought her son to the headmaster's office. Once there, Paul said, the headmaster told her son to kneel before the teacher in apology.

I went to parochial school decades ago, and remember that insistence on arbitrary enforcement of unspoken rules. It was deliberately designed to humiliate. Sad to see some headmasters and teachers still go for that, if only for SOME students.

(I bet you the pretty blonde student named Sarah Sullivan would be praised for "multitasking" if she did the same, and no, of course there was no blonde student named Sarah Sullivan in my 5th grade class-- you surely don't think I'd hold a grudge this long?)