The student s mother told WFAA that the picture was meant to be a joke and that the unidentified teacher said she would put her foot on the boy s neck if he did not turn in an assignment. I don t really understand the whole situation, but all I know is it was never supposed to happen, the student s father, Shamell told WFAA.
The photo shows the student laying on the ground, with the teacher s sneaker on top of the student.
The teacher was placed on leave for what the Greenville Independent School District called a staged photo amid an investigation, but resigned last week, WFAA reported.
Teacher who took vile pic of her foot on black student s neck and sent to boy s mom after he didn t do homework RESIGNS
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Allow me this bit of unsolicited advice to educators everywhere: Do not engage in “jokes” that seem to mirror hideous news events.
So it is, then, that a Greenville Independent School District teacher has resigned after being suspended over a picture of her placing her foot on the back of a Lamar Elementary School student’s neck. Sound familiar?
Yep, the teacher took part in this supposedly good-natured stunt on the day that a Minneapolis jury convicted former cop Derek Chauvin of murdering George Floyd by pressing his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes in 2020.
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A Texas elementary school teacher has been placed on leave after she reportedly sent a ‘joke’ photo of her foot on a Black student’s neck to the child’s mother.
The Greenville Independent School District (GISD) is investigating the incident after the disturbing image was posted to social media. The photo was reportedly taken at Lamar Elementary, on the same day former Minneapolis officer
Derek Chauvin was found guilty in the murder of
George Floyd after kneeling on his neck during an arrest for nearly ten minutes until he died.
The teacher texted the picture to the 10-year-old boy’s mother, who told local reporters that the photo was a “joke” about a discussion over a permission slip. Apparently, the teacher told the student to return an assignment or she would put a foot on his neck.
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A Texas teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a picture of her standing above a student with her foot on his neck was released. The image resembled the act that led to George Floyd’s death.
On Wednesday, the Greenville Independent School District responded to the viral picture at Lamar Elementary School by apologizing to parents, Complex News reported.
“My initial thought when seeing the photo was actually disgust and concern for the child in the picture. Again it’s completely unacceptable, it’s completely out of the norm for our community and expectation that we have here at Greenville ISD,” Demtrus Liggins, the superintendent of the Greenville Independent School District, said. “Our community embraces diversity and we celebrate our differences here and we take the safety and dignity and respect of our students and staff very seriously. So to have something like this occur, although I do not have all the details for it since it’s under investig
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