This is Critical Race Theory in action.
In the discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, mother Kila Posey says the principal at Atlanta’s Mary Lin Elementary School implemented a segregation class policy because she thought it was best for all students.
Posey says “we’ve lost sleep like trying to figure out why would a person do this.
Posey and her attorney Sharese Shields believe the policy is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posey found out last year that the elementary school would be putting Black students in two different classrooms with two different teachers and white students into six classrooms with six different teachers.
Posey says “first, it was just disbelief that I was having this conversation in 2020 with a person that looks just like me — a Black woman. It’s segregating classrooms. You cannot segregate classrooms. You can’t do it.”
Her attorney says “Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 says that you cannot treat one group of people differently based upon race, and that is what is going on at Mary Lin.”
The district told WSB-TV in a statement, “Atlanta public schools does not condone the assigning of students to classrooms based on race. The district conducted a review of the allegations. Appropriate actions were taken to address the issue and the matter was closed.” Posey wants Briscoe and the administrators to be removed for allowing the system of segregation to be in place. The US Department of Education is currently investigating the issue.