Idaho is in the news for a wrong reason again

[Jaga]

since some teachers in Middletown schools dressed themselves as a part of the Caravan and it was in the bad taste.

This school is not far from Boise, near Oregon

www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article221074560.html

Middleton Heights staff placed on administrative leave over controversial Halloween outfits

By Michael Katz


November 03, 2018 10:12 AM

Updated 8 hours 43 minutes ago

Middleton School District Superintendent Josh Middleton announced Saturday morning at a special school board meeting that 14 employees involved in controversial Halloween photos circulating on social media have been placed on paid administrative leave.

After Superintendent Middleton’s announcement, the board went into executive session. Afterward, a statement was read, and it was announced that the investigation would be continuing.

The board did not take questions after reading its statement.

“This type of behavior has no place in education and certainly is not tolerated here at Middleton School District. This situation is being taken very seriously. We are in full support of our superintendent and administrative staff as a full investigation is being conducted, and are awaiting the results of the investigation,” the statement reads, in part. “This is an unfortunate incident of very poor judgment. Yet it is not indicative of the Middleton School District or our teachers as a whole.”

Superintendent Middleton also announced that a member of the district’s crisis team would be taking over day-to-day principal duties at Middleton Heights for the time being.

On Friday, photos of Middleton Heights Elementary staff donning Halloween costumes that portrayed a border wall reading “Make America Great Again” and stereotyped Mexicans emerged on social media. The photos, which were posted on the school district’s Facebook page, went viral.

Following an uproar online, Superintendent Middleton posted a video response on Facebook on Friday morning. As of this writing the video, as well as the entire district Facebook page, has been taken down. The administration section of Middleton Heights’ website is also unavailable.

“We are better than this,” he said in the video. “We embrace all students. We have a responsibility to teach and reach all students — period.”

[karl]

Jaga

Interesting situation occuring at the school in question, also those involved are out of context of reality. At least the School District of Middle School District as supervised by Superintendent, Mr. Josh Middleton has a level head on his shoulders and cutting this nonsense out at the core.

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl,

yes, the reply of the superintendent was quite appropriate. I think that these teachers will keep their jobs, they just need to go through some training and understanding what was wrong.