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A Black teacher in Baltimore who resigned following an incident of alleged mistreatment fueled a movement where students from three private schools teamed up for a peaceful protest and walk out.
Close to 100 students and faculty members from Bryn Mawr School, Roland Park Country School, and Gilman School hit the streets on Friday morning to protest the treatment of a former Black teacher who resigned after being berated by a white student,
Baltimore Sun reports.
Adrienne Knight was employed at Bryn Mawr School, but quit after she posted a YouTube video earlier this year detailing an encounter with a white student who told her to go “fetch me something.” She recalled the student gluing a sheet of notebook paper to a desk. When Knight asked the female student to clean up the mess she made, the student allegedly told Knight, “I’m not going to clean it up, but if you want to go fetch me something to do it, then you can do it.”
Nearly 100 students and faculty members from Bryn Mawr School, Roland Park Country School and Gilman School took to the streets Friday morning to protest the treatment of a former teacher.