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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)because I've never heard of a school shipping a capable student away unless they had major behavior problems...I'd also like to know why no agreement could be made during the several teacher-parent meetings...
Although it should be said that I don't think the posters in this thread appreciate just how serious Williams' accusation is (especially if it was an opinion that trickled down from her mother)...It's one thing to accuse her teachers of incompetence or being unqualified; it's a whole other thing to say "You are all intentionally refusing to teach me properly because of my skin color...", which is puts the teachers' honor and professionalism on trial... Even if she is 13, and that is her true opinion (and not parroting her mother), she can NOT just throw that line out there without backing it up chapter and verse...
I suspect this is the key issue that series of meetings was centered on, and on one side or the other cooler heads did not prevail, so they both decided to part company...