School officials in northeast Florida have apologized for singling out Black elementary school students to attend a presentation on low test scores.
Florida school district officials apologized Thursday for an elementary school assembly in which Black students were singled out for a presentationOfficials at Flagler County’s school district, about 75 miles north of Orlando, said at a news conference that the assembly at Bunnell Elementary School was a “horrible, horrific mistake” that shouldn’t have happened, and that the school’s principal has been put on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.
Although there was no intended malice involved, the assembly was carried out in a way that doesn’t reflect the district’s values, Lashakia Moore, the interim superintendent, said in a video posted on the district’s website.
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