Racism in the classroom

Friday March 5, three white teachers from Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles were placed on administrative leave after giving students portraits of O.J. Simpson, RuPaul , and Dennis Rodman to carry in the school’s black history parade. The three teachers are accused of acting concert to mock black heroes and take advantage of the children's innocence. The chapter president of the NAACP is Leon Jenkins who said he is pushing for the teachers to be fired. I feel like this was an act of racism these are African Americans who we should not teach our children to emulate or make them believe that these individuals represent the best of our history or community. People like Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman and President Barack Obama, and Martin Luther King are just a few people that embody the traits that we want our children to follow. This just is another one if many wake up calls that racism is still very much alive.