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Another day, another racist “teacher” –this one in Minnesota–shows us why they should be kept as far away as possible from Black students — or any students for that matter.
Meet Steven Dwight Williams .
Williams was a substitute teacher who taught four classes of 10th and 12th-grade English students at Woodbury High School in Minnesota. As of Monday, he is no longer in that role, having been banned from teaching at that school –and any other in the district. Here’s what happened. He decided that in order to prove to his students that police brutality was just a myth, he’d go ahead and reenact the murder of George Floyd by hemming students to the ground, apparently an affinity of his.
Oh, and did I mention Williams is a cop?
From the New York Times :
“This reported behavior is reprehensible,” the principal of Woodbury High School, Sarah Sorenson-Wagner, said in the email message. “I am embarrassed, and I am sorry this happened to our students.”
The substitute teacher, who told students he had been a police officer, told “sexist jokes” and made “racially harmful comments”; gave students “specific names of people he arrested”; and “put a student on the ground in front of the class” in an effort to re-enact the murder of George Floyd, the school said. He also said that “police brutality isn’t real,” according to the school.