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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Feb 10, 2014, 02:09 PM Feb 2014

Outrage after Queens teacher tells kids not to write about Malcolm X [View all]

Eyewitness News
QUEENS (WABC) -- There is outrage among some parents of students at an elementary school in Queens after a teacher told children not to write about Malcolm X during Black History Month.

The technology teacher at PS 201 in Flushing said it's because the slain civil rights leader was too violent.

The teacher looked up some information about Malcolm X online and determined it was not age-appropriate material for her fourth graders. She has since apologized to the parents and plans to apologize to students as well.

Parents and prominent politicians who gathered at the school Monday morning said it was important for all teachers to have cultural sensitivity.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9426075

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Outrage after Queens teacher tells kids not to write about Malcolm X [View all] hrmjustin Feb 2014 OP

That's an embarrassment shenmue Feb 2014 #1

Good thing the child spoke up and told the parents. hrmjustin Feb 2014 #2

Fine that she apologized. elleng Feb 2014 #3

Glad she did as well. hrmjustin Feb 2014 #4

and, as you said, elleng Feb 2014 #5