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August 3, 2021 4:47 PM
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SPOKANE, Wash. Students with Spokane Public Schools will be back in class, full-time in less than a month. The district has been hiring over the summer and is still looking for more teachers, para-educators and other staff as it works to reduce class sizes.
It’s known that students learn better when they get more attention from teachers. The district says it’s working towards getting historically low class sizes. Some classrooms this upcoming year will have fewer students compared to years past.
Right now, the district says it has room in its middle and high schools, but it’s elementary classrooms pose more of a challenge.
A family called for the removal of a school administrator who suggested the school "segregate" two Black students who were uncomfortable during a cotton lesson.
“I was shocked that a teacher would bring a box of cotton into a class and tell them to pick it clean so she could teach us how slaves were back then."
The family claims that an administrator at Sacajawea MS offered to remove two Black students from the class when their mother raised concerns about the assignment.
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