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Re: Portland School REFUSED to Fire Black Teacher Because of His Ethnicity
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On 07 Jan 2022, Molly Bolt <mollyth...@gmail.com> posted some
news:39ce7e51-8c39-4db2...@googlegroups.com:
> The nigger is stealing a paycheck.
Portland's woke school board has refused to fire a black dance teacher
caught ringing in sick to take private lessons and judge a contest - after
claiming that doing so would be racist.
School board members who lost a 4-3 vote to keep Damon Keller working at
Ockley Green Middle School slammed last week's result as 'extraordinarily
troubling'.
Keller repeatedly pretended to be sick so he could skip work for his side
gig teaching dance lessons.
After being told his contract wouldn't permit him to take Wednesdays off
to teach private lessons, Keller rang in sick on the day multiple times.
He's also accused of ringing in sick after his request for unpaid leave so
he could judge a dance contest in North Carolina was turned down. Keller
ended up attending that contest and judging.
His behavior led to a furious clash with school officials that led
headteacher Julie Rierson and superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero to move to
fire him, The Oregonian reported.
But board member Michelle DePass admitted she'd spared Keller from being
fired because of his race. DePass, who is black, told the vote meeting:
'The district has been documenting Keller for eight years. They’ve been
waiting for him to mess up.
'I have never experienced a white person being scrutinized like that over
that length of time and then dismissed. We shouldn’t hold black people to
a higher standard of conduct than everyone else.'
The successful votes of DePass and three other board members - two of whom
were black, with one being white - were blasted by fellow board member
Andrew Scott.
He countered: 'I have never heard comments that race-based in this type of
a setting. We created a future lawsuit in that moment...It was
extraordinarily troubling.'
Keller will be disciplined over his absences, although details of his
punishment have not been shared.
The teacher - hailed as an extremely talented man whose former students
have gone on to dance with Justin Bieber and Rihanna - has a history of
disciplinary issues including physical misconduct involving students and
neglect.
However, Keller's students reacted with anger to his firing and staged a
walkout in April to protest against losing one of the only black educators
at the school.
They also claimed plans to fire him were racist.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woke-portland-school-board-says-
unreliable-dance-teacher-can-t-be-fired-because-he-s-black/ar-AA1dVnvZ
news:39ce7e51-8c39-4db2...@googlegroups.com:
> The nigger is stealing a paycheck.
Portland's woke school board has refused to fire a black dance teacher
caught ringing in sick to take private lessons and judge a contest - after
claiming that doing so would be racist.
School board members who lost a 4-3 vote to keep Damon Keller working at
Ockley Green Middle School slammed last week's result as 'extraordinarily
troubling'.
Keller repeatedly pretended to be sick so he could skip work for his side
gig teaching dance lessons.
After being told his contract wouldn't permit him to take Wednesdays off
to teach private lessons, Keller rang in sick on the day multiple times.
He's also accused of ringing in sick after his request for unpaid leave so
he could judge a dance contest in North Carolina was turned down. Keller
ended up attending that contest and judging.
His behavior led to a furious clash with school officials that led
headteacher Julie Rierson and superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero to move to
fire him, The Oregonian reported.
But board member Michelle DePass admitted she'd spared Keller from being
fired because of his race. DePass, who is black, told the vote meeting:
'The district has been documenting Keller for eight years. They’ve been
waiting for him to mess up.
'I have never experienced a white person being scrutinized like that over
that length of time and then dismissed. We shouldn’t hold black people to
a higher standard of conduct than everyone else.'
The successful votes of DePass and three other board members - two of whom
were black, with one being white - were blasted by fellow board member
Andrew Scott.
He countered: 'I have never heard comments that race-based in this type of
a setting. We created a future lawsuit in that moment...It was
extraordinarily troubling.'
Keller will be disciplined over his absences, although details of his
punishment have not been shared.
The teacher - hailed as an extremely talented man whose former students
have gone on to dance with Justin Bieber and Rihanna - has a history of
disciplinary issues including physical misconduct involving students and
neglect.
However, Keller's students reacted with anger to his firing and staged a
walkout in April to protest against losing one of the only black educators
at the school.
They also claimed plans to fire him were racist.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woke-portland-school-board-says-
unreliable-dance-teacher-can-t-be-fired-because-he-s-black/ar-AA1dVnvZ
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