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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo Show is reporting principal placed on leave anfter something racist was written on a desk, and also that a sub used the N word. I can’t figure out how the three are connected [/quote]There’s been a series of anti-Black incidents at Wootton that the principal, Doug Nelson, has not reported and failed to act on. There is an anti-Black culture that has been allowed to fester his leadership.

That’s how they’re connected.[/quote] Nelson turned a blind-eye to racist because he’s racist. He going to be fired. Too bad so many people had to suffer under his “leadership”. [/quote]

Okay what are these series of events he has turned a blind eye to this year? Is anyone or any news source or better yet MCPS going to actually specify anything besides the desk incident. [/quote]

Your reading comprehension is garbage. The numerous incidents have been stated and restated in this thread and in news reports.[/quote]

Not the PP but I haven’t seen them anywhere except the desk incident and a substitute teacher saying it, which has nothing to do with Wootton or the students.

Why can’t people just list them instead of replying like this.[/quote]

Two things that I've heard.
1. There has been a lack of communication to the general community when various incidents have occurred.  This complicates things because there are rumors of other racially-related incidents (that I won't repeat) that have not been communicated.  (So we don't really know how may/how severe/if there were any at all.)
2. There was mandatory training of all staff/teachers that was ignored/not done.  The superintendent mentioned this in the interview/video that is linked earlier in this thread.

Taking these things together, it seems like there was a pattern of not taking racial incidents seriously enough (which sounds like a judgment call, but perhaps ran counter to instruction/mcps policy on these incidents).  Along with more formal violations of policy such as ignoring the requirement to have staff training.

My kids don't go to Wootton, but I know that the black student alliance advisor at our school has been mad as heck about what's been going on/being ignored at Wootton for most of this academic year.  (The advisor has been encouraging kids at our school to rally on behalf of Wootton, but I don't know the details of what they are supposed to be rallying about!!)[/quote]

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