Howard County Teacher Disciplined in Latest Racially Charged Incident

A Howard County high school English teacher was placed on administrative leave last week after assigning students to write a “fun” slave song as part of a lesson on abolitionist Frederick Douglass — the latest in a string of racially charged incidents in the suburban school system.

Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose said that she put the Mount Hebron High School teacher on leave for four days after the school system learned of the incident.

Foose called the teacher “inexperienced” and the assignment “outrageous.” Foose also said the assignment was not part of the school system’s official curriculum.

“It was offensive and out of scope with what we should be teaching,” Foose told The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board Tuesday.

oward County high school English teacher was placed on administrative leave last week after assigning students to write a “fun” slave song as part of a lesson on abolitionist Frederick Douglass — the latest in a string of racially charged incidents in the suburban school system.

Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose said that she put the Mount Hebron High School teacher on leave for four days after the school system learned of the incident.

 

 

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