A public school in Alexandria, Virginia is getting extra attention after it was said that students played a game on school grounds where Black students were kept separate.
FOX 5 in Washington, D.C., reported that the event happened at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy. The school’s website describes it as a K–5 public school in Old Town Alexandria with a diverse group of students.
Reports say the kids played the game during social studies, and Laura Burkart, the director, sent a letter to the parents telling them about it.
Reports say that Burkart said the game was wrong in the letter, but she didn’t say sorry for what happened.
The station talked to a parent behind closed doors who said that the so-called “segregation game” hurt her African American daughter.
The mother told the news group The kids who were in the game said sorry, but Burkart didn’t.
The game was played on the field after school while the fourth-graders were there.
The mom said that some white kids told her daughter that because she was black, she couldn’t play with them or go into their made-up classroom.
It was said that the director got emotional when the mother met with Burkart. She also told the kids they needed to say sorry to the mother’s daughter.
Still, the mother told the station that the way Burkart handled the situation made her daughter dislike him even more.
And it wasn’t just her daughter who did it. It was actually mentioned by the station that some other minority kids were not allowed to play with the white kids.
