Posted on 10/23/2007 4:20:59 PM PDT by Stoat
More than 100 boys and girls aged from seven to 11 were lined up from the fairest skinned to the darkest.
But the segregation left several of the pupil so upset they cried to their parents when they got home.
One angry mother said: "My 10-year-old was told to go further back in the line as she was not white enough. She came home devastated saying, 'I wish my skin was lighter mummy.'"
Another parent, Ann Andrew, 49, said her daughter, Angela, 10, came home in tears and said: "My school's so racist."
Dozens of parents have complained to Sandhurst Junior School in Lewisham. Headteacher Val Hughes said pupils had been divided up according to skin tone but claimed it was to make it easier for the photographer.
In a letter to Mrs Andrews she said: "Some classes were organised lightest to darkest skin tone and some darkest to lightest. This meant the photographer did not have to keep re-adjusting his reflector screens."
Parents are planning to protest to Lewisham council.
It appears that in this case as in many, many others the Left is blissfully unaware of the havoc that they have wreaked upon society.
It DOES make lighting of skin tones easier and better for the photographer!
It was a pretty brain dead thing to do, don’t you think?
BBC NEWS UK England London School regrets skin colour photo
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| A primary school head teacher is to apologise to parents after their children were lined up according to skin colour for an official photograph. Val Hughes, of Sandhurst Junior School in Lewisham, south-east London, said teachers had mistakenly taken the advice of a professional photographer. She said it was an "error of judgement" and would be personally writing to all parents to apologise. A governors meeting will be held into the circumstances of the incident. 'Promoting diversity' Ms Hughes said: "On this occasion, teaching staff took the professional advice of the photographer. We can see this was an error of judgement and we regret this greatly. "Contrary to reports, however, the children were not upset in any way and really enjoyed having their photos taken. "Our school has an excellent record of promoting diversity and I will personally be writing to apologise to all parents." She said the school would raise its concerns with the photographer to ensure it "never happens again". 'No complaints' Chair of governors at the school, Abdeslam Amrani, told BBC London 94.9: "Unfortunately for some reason a decision was made, not a good one though, to take a picture of children in a particular alignment. "We [school governors] have taken this pretty seriously and we apologise to the children and the parents who were distressed by the experience." "It was a misjudgement and we will be holding an emergency governors meeting to see how this issue has arisen and to look at making sure it does not happen again. He said he was not aware of any complaints made by parents. The school has just received an "outstanding" report from Ofsted and many of its pupils are achieving high grades. A governors' meeting will be held on Monday. |
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And I call B.S.
This article sounds more like an attempt to push the racist agenda even farther along.
Reads like total hogwash.
I was always bothered that I was the shortest in the class. When we took pictures, we lined up by height, and I was ALWAYS last.
I’ve never recovered. May I sue?
Military drill teams and Broadway chorus lines are arranged by height. Does anyone complain that they are on the short end?
Union or government photographer?
Probably the dumbest part was admitting it. I remember in class photos there was always a bunch of shuffling kids around, and it probably did result in clustering kids by skintone among other things. But the photographers never said what they were doing, of course back then the culture was more willing to accept that professionals know what they’re doing so we shouldn’t worry about it.
I (and I'm sure everyone else) can easily see how it would.
But sometimes doing what's easiest has additional ramifications.
I was looking at an old high school yearbook from the 1920's. There was one black girl in the graduating class. Her senior photo was after all the other senior although her last name began with a B.
An ugly time, very ugly.
This is America!
Of course you can sue.
Agreed, and so breathtakingly brain-dead that the story is remarkable.
But apparently only one set of permutations resulted in calls to the media.
I didn’t complain,though I was always being told to get my **** in step..
Albinos unite !
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