North Penn Parent Claims Teacher Made White Elementary Students Say 'Sorry' To Black Ones

LANSDALE, PA — A parent of a local elementary school student is claiming that she pulled her kid from school after a teacher separated students by race and made the white students apologize to their Black classmates for the color of their skin.

The parent is shown in a video clip making the claim during a meeting of the North Penn Board of School Directors.

The meeting date was not specified in the video clip, which has been shared on the Internet and through various social media accounts.

In the video clip, the unnamed parent is shown speaking at a board meeting and telling school directors that she removed her daughter from school because of a fifth-grade teacher who lined up students from "whitest to darkest" and made the white students turn around and apologize to the black students.

"You need to put an end to this," the parent says in the video. "Kids do not see color, and you are segregating them and you are separating them.

"This is not OK," the parent continues, visibly angry. "Do something or get out of those damn chairs."

Patch reached out to the North Penn School District to get comment about the allegations.

A spokeswoman said that the claims by the parent were not entirely true.

"We acknowledge that a classroom activity involving cultural proficiency did occur last May; however, students were never lined up in a particular manner and students were not asked to apologize to others for any reason," stated Christine Liberaski, director of school and community engagement for the North Penn School District.

Liberaski did not elaborate on what exactly the cultural proficiency exercise or lesson entailed.

According to the Center for Culturally Proficient Educational Practice, cultural proficiency is about "educating all students to high levels through knowing, valuing, and using as assets their cultural backgrounds, languages, and learning styles within the context of our teaching."