Utah student speaks out about alleged racial discrimination by school leader

SALT LAKE CITY — An eighth-grade student is speaking up after she said she was targeted and discriminated against by the assistant principal at her school. The assistant principal in the Granite School District was placed on leave Tuesday following racism and harassment allegations made by the eighth-grade student.“After what he said to me, that’s something I’ll never forget, he can’t take back what he said,” said Melanie Oeur.

“I noticed that all the girls wearing those outfits were white, I asked, 'Are you doing this because I am brown, are you dress coding me because I am brown?' And he looked me in the eyes and said yes,” said Oeur. “You literally told her you singled her out because she’s brown and he said, 'Well, I was being sarcastic,'" Fetic said."My response was, well, she’s 14. She’s obviously brown, but why does anything have to be based on skin color, he who is in a position he is at her school should not have said what he said."

Your sure that’s how this all went down ?

Used to happen WAY more... When I was applying for my AP classes, I was told 'my people' did really well in the military.

I’m a second year teacher and we were taught, in training, not to use sarcasm with students. He should have followed his training.

Gonna call bullshit on this.

Lol... poor thing.

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