On November 14 an investigation in an Atlanta public school ensued after a students mom filed a civil rights complaint. Kila Posey, a mother of two, filed the complaint against Mary Lin Elementary School over a year ago. But the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights just launched a federal investigation into the school.
In a CNN Interview, Posey, a black woman, claimed Principal Sharyn Briscoe, also a black woman, had been segregating black children into certain classrooms. Posey says she requested that her daughter be place in a certain teacher’s class room and inadverdently discovered the 2 out of 6 Second grade classrooms had been set apart for black students.
Posey says she was notified by the Principal that the class she wanted for her child was not one of the ones that had been set apart for black students and that her child would be isolated in the requested class. Posey was stunned by the principal’s admission,
“First, it was just disbelief that I was having this conversation in 2020 with a person that looks just like me — a black woman,” Posey continued, “It’s segregating classrooms. You cannot segregate classrooms. You can’t do it.”
Posey said she insisted that her child be place in a classroom that had white kids in it as well.
Ian Smith, the head of the Atlanta Public Schools’ Office of Communications and Public Engagement, said the school had corrected the issue and that the matter was closed, likely hoping the violation would be forgotten,
“Atlanta Public Schools does not condone the assigning of students to classrooms based on race,” said Smith.
On August 29, 2022, Posey filed a second complaint against the district. Posey stated that she was fired from her position as an after-school care provider for the district. According to Posey, the termination was a “retaliation for raising the issue of segregation.”
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