Headmaster 'forced black student, 11, to kneel and apologize to his teacher because it was the 'African way' to say sorry'
John Patrick Holian has been placed on leave by a Long Island Catholic school. Holian is headmaster at St. Martin de Porres Marianist School in Uniondale. On February 25, he disciplined a sixth grade student, 11-year-old Trayson Paul. Paul, a black boy from a Haitian-American family, got in trouble at English class.
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