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Seattle School District orders teacher to stop teaching class on race

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Center School students
Center School students
SEATTLE — 
A required class on race was suspended at one Seattle public school just two weeks before it was scheduled to end.

The Center School class was stopped last Monday on orders from School Superintendent Jose Banda after a student said teacher Jon Greenberg had created an intimidating environment.

KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Deborah Horne spoke with several Center School students who disagreed with that assessment of Greenberg's class.

The students told Horne that Greenberg teaches by getting students to open up about their own prejudices to better understand the role race plays in society.

Many students said that they want the class back.

"It is not OK, for me, to stop a curriculum that's really important to me," Center