Substitute Teacher Resigns After Telling Classroom of Students to Kill Themselves

CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 2/15/2019, 9:31 p.m.
A North Carolina substitute teacher resigned after she allegedly told a predominantly Black classroom of 10-year-old students that Rev. Martin …
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A North Carolina substitute teacher resigned after she allegedly told a predominantly Black classroom of 10-year-old students that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. killed himself and that his assassination was a myth. According to the News & Observer, several parents at Rand Road Elementary complained to the Wake County school system after the substitute music teacher made several offensive comments in class on Friday. On Sunday, the teacher told the district she no longer wanted to be in Wake’s database as a substitute teacher, according to Lisa Luten, a spokeswoman. Billy Byrd, a Rand Road parent who posted about the teacher’s remarks, said he immediately knew something was wrong when he picked up his 10-year-old son, Nathan. Byrd said the substitute teacher began speaking about President Trump and told the students that they weren’t real Christians if they didn’t support the controversial president.

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