THE FEDERALIST/ Haley Strack-
When Atlanta mother Kila Posey discovered her child’s elementary school was segregating classes based on race, she couldn’t believe it.
“We’ve lost sleep like trying to figure out why would a person do this,” Posey told local news station WSB-TV.
Posey, who filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights against Mary Lin Elementary School, alleged that the school’s principal Sharyn Briscoe told her that segregation practices were in the best interest of students. Posey says the policy is a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.
After a revealing conversation with Briscoe, Posey learned that the school separated black students into two different classrooms and white students into six different classrooms. Each classroom had a different teacher.
“First, it was just disbelief that I was having this conversation in 2020 with a person that looks just like me — a black woman. It’s segregating classrooms. You cannot segregate classrooms. You can’t do it,” Posey said. Continue reading…
