Thurgood Marshall Elementary school in Washington State is the center of a recent NAACP uproar, concerning a teacher who became nauseated by the smell of Olive Oil hair chemicals. An 8 yr old girl was kicked out of her classroom after the teacher complained about the smell of her hair. The student (nameless) was the only African American child in an accelerated learning class, but because the teacher became sick she was switched to a lower class with more black students.
Since the incident has taken place the student was taken out of the school and the parents don't want her to return "until the teacher had medical proof that our daughter's hair was to blame for the [teachers] nausea. The last thing you want to happen to your daughter is for a teacher to faint or vomit at the mere sight of her."
Something about this story doesn't sound right...they forced the girl to switch classrooms? Why not just send the teacher home early for being sick? Seems like the school/teacher brought this issue amongst themselves.
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