A Tampa teen was racially harassed by her teacher. He's bullied students for years. - TBT

[GGoss]

A Tampa teen was racially harassed by her teacher. He’s bullied students for years. - TBT
Hillsborough records show allegations ranged from performing a Nazi salute to calling a transgender student a slur.

TAMPA — Until her teacher brought up her race, it had been an otherwise unremarkable American government class at Wharton High. One of Melanie Copeland’s parents was Black, the other white. Her teacher, Todd Harvey, wanted to know what she put as her race on government forms.

What she should put, he told her, was “mutt.” Melanie struggled to process what was happening. Did her teacher really just call her a dog? She remembers Harvey grinning, while she and other students sat stunned.

Mr. Harvey is a tall, mercurial white man who has taught in Hillsborough County Public Schools since the late ‘90s, after working as a salesman and briefly pitching in the minor leagues for the Kansas City Royals. He’s spent the bulk of his career at Wharton High, which serves mostly students of color.

The impact of Melanie’s 2017 encounter with Mr. Harvey has been lasting, proving so haunting she wrote her college admission essay about it. The summer after her high school graduation, she read a Tampa Bay Times story about Blake High mishandling sexual harassment complaints that later prompted the federal government to investigate.

Melanie emailed the Times...

Link: https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2023/03/12/tampa-teen-was-racially-harassed-by-her-teacher-hes-bullied-students-years/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I saw the mod of a church group

remark to an Asian student 'you guys don't get gray hair'. I think he realized what he had done, and he was very nice to the guy, but still.

[Deuce]

2. He should have been removed as a Teacher long ago....

[yardwork]

3. I had a math teacher like this - in the early 1970s

I think it is more common than recognized.

[exboyfil]

4. The guy has been off the leash for a long time

Talk about grooming - Telling a student they will marry her.

[NCDem47]

5. So where are those parents rights now DeSantis?

And “protecting” children?

Oh, I see, it only works one way.

[mitch96]

6. This makes me so flippen mad.. Why does the school board/principal protect this guy?

Does he have someting on them or is it that hard to replace him. Maybe they feel that a bad teacher is better than no teacher at all...uff...
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