A school teacher in Michigan has been placed on administrative leave after giving students a worksheet that compared former President Barack Obama to monkeys.
A school teacher in Michigan has been placed on administrative leave after giving students a worksheet that compared former President Barack Obama to monkeys.
The Roeper School in Birmingham suspended the Asian Pacific biology female after her failure to ban the classroom activity caused outrage among parents and city officials
"It made me feel disgusted - I couldn't believe it," said Carolyn Lett, the director of diversity at Roeper. "When I first saw it, I'm trying to make sense of it myself."
The teacher, who hasn't been named, showed a photo of the former president next to photos of several animals in a lesson about apes, monkeys and lemurs, then asked: “Which of the following are primates?"