I met with the teacher and principal and asst. principal yesterday, it went well. Mercury Man couldn’t come as he had an emergency meeting at his own school (he is a special ed. teacher, this year his class is emotionally disturbed students). The teacher apologized without trying to explain it again with the comments, and she said she realized how ignorant it was. She explained why she lost control with the crying bit but apologized because she realized now how it would affect a teenager in this situation.

She is really nice and seemed contrite and sincere, and I am glad I got to talk to her face-to-face and found out how this whole thing even became a topic for discussion. She also expressed such dismay at hurting i-bop’s feelings, and that she was thankful to have learned something from this. I am actually glad i-bop has her for a teacher, because many other white people would have been highly resistant to learning anything from this and would have resented anyone daring to tell them they were wrong in this situation. I am also glad the assistant principal and principal handled this so promptly.

I am in particular impressed with the principal, as she made sure to stress to the teacher why this was wrong racially and that it was very important that they are sensitive to all of their students, which includes students who are not white, and she also stressed to the teacher not engaging with the students as if they were her peers. She is a very effective administrator and I am glad she is in charge at the high school. I hope she stays there until my sons are out of high school, but I would not be surprised if a person with her skills moved on to even more challenging and/or lucrative work. She rocks.
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