private school choose intend to send them here in large part, they say, because of sharon briscoe. a progressive principal but it s her alleged conversation about race-based placement practices that are now the focus of a civil rights complaint. and she then informed me that wasn t the black class. she said that wasn t the black class? that is correct. how did you react to that? just a pit was in my stomach. i was like what do you mean? like, i don t understand. we have those? of the six total second grade classes at the atlanta public school, kyla posy says she was told by the principal that black students, including posy s daughter would only have a choice between two of the classes. in july, she and her husband who works as the school psychologist filed a federal complaint with the department of education. it may not be your 1950s segregation where you have signs
filed federal discrimination complaint against mary lynn elementary school in atlanta. and she says the school is segregated or has segregated students based on their race. she went in to talk to the principal. ainsley: meaning black kids are in one class and white kids are in the other class. steve: she went in to talk to a principal by the name of sharon briscoe, the principal who is black. apparently put black students into two classes with two different teachers while white students were put in six classes with six different teachers, she found out about it when she called the principal s office and asked about putting her child into a different class. because she thought she knew she heard about this other teacher, thought a better fit for my child. here she is on prime time last night describing what she has learned was going on at her kids kid s school. i informed her of the teacher that was the best fit for my student.