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UPDATE: Middle School teacher Mr Barron was allowed to return to the classroom following the two week's suspension/investigation into much ado about nothing. The School Board issued a spin rather than an apology.
Michigan junior high school history teacher Alan Barron has been suspended (with pay or, as school administration insists, "on leave") owing to teaching that Jim Crow segregation was so normal at one time in America that actors used to routinely perform in blackface, a term probably lost on today's youth, and complemented his lesson with a video.
It was during so that Assistant Principal, Melissa Provo who, according to various reports, either happened by or was sitting in during the lecture, ordered the video stopped immediately. As per her logic, by teaching about racism the lesson was, itself, racist. The icing on the cake? Mr Barron is retiring in a couple of weeks -- after more than thirty years of teaching in the local school district. Only he won't be able to attend the going-away party because, pending investigation whilst "on leave", he's barred from school grounds and functions.
Maybe Mr Barron should've stuck to encouraging "dialogue" on man sex and lesbian licking. At least he would've been flown out to appear on the Ellen show (and Anderson Cooper, Oprah, LOGO, Bravo channel, etc).
For what it's worth, it seems no one in the community but the principal sides with MS Provo's assessment.
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