Brown v. the Board of Education was meant to end segregation in schools across the country— but what happens when it’s a Black educator who brings back segregation for a shocking reason? In the case of one Atlanta public school (APS), claims of segregation led to a shocking lawsuit from one parent.
Kila Posey and her husband are not only parents to two APS students, but they also work as educators in the Atlanta area. So imagine their surprise when the principal at their daughter’s elementary school, Sharyn Briscoe, revealed the shocking method of how Black students were taught at the predominately white school.
“I found out directly from the principal,” Posey told CNN in a 2021 interview. Her husband, Jason, worked at Mary Lin Elementary, where their daughter was enrolled. The school had a known policy of allowing staff to request homeroom teachers every year, so that’s exactly what Posey did. “I made the selection for our students, and she [Briscoe] called me and asked if I wanted a different teacher.”
After telling Briscoe she was confident about her original homeroom selection, the principal reportedly responded, “If she stays with her, she won’t have anyone that looks like her in the classroom,” according to Posey. Obviously confused by the statement, the mother asked what happened to all the Black students at Mary Lin, and it was the principal’s response that unknowingly sent shockwaves throughout the city.
Source: Black ATL Principal Admits to Segregating Classes, but One Black Parent Got The Last Laugh
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