Only Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla., were taken out of class for an assembly on how to improve standardized test scores.
Only Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell Elementary School in Flagler County, Fla., were taken out of class on Friday for the assembly on how to improve their grades — even if the students had passing grades. Students were selected to attend based on their race, Flagler Schools spokesman Jason Wheeler told The Washington Post on Wednesday.
The school district is investigating how Black students were the only group that attended an event aimed at encouraging improvement in test scores. As an incentive, the students were promised meals from McDonald’s, Flagler Interim Superintendent LaShakia Moore said in a“While the desire to help this particular subgroup of students is to be commended, how this was done does not meet the expectations we desire among Flagler Schools,” said Moore, who is Black.
Evensen did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning. County School Board Chair Cheryl Massaro told The Post that while the assembly wasn’t intended to hurt the Black students or their parents, the school board did not know about the plans for an assembly and would have advised against having only Black students in attendance.“We know it was wrong, and it shouldn’t have happened. It wasn’t a great idea,” Massaro said.
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