Idaho’s Border-Wall-Costume School Cited in 2016 for Segregating Classrooms by Sex
Fourteen Middleton School District (Idaho) teachers and staff have been suspended with pay pending results of an investigation into actions related to the employees’ choosing to dress up as a border wall and Mexicans on Halloween, for what district superintendent Josh Middleton identified as a “week-long team building activity,” according to CBS 2:
“We have talked to the principal and our assistant superintendent human resources director now is conducting interviews up at the elementary school and just to be safe we have beefed up security at our schools,” Middleton says.He tells CBS 2 that the costumes came from a week-long team building activity, which he says was meant to focus on acts of respect and kindness.“There were six countries, two of those countries decided to get with the theme and chose to dress in those outfits,” Middleton says.
In efforts to address the situation, Middleton and the school board have posted the following message to the community on the school web page:
Important Message
November 3, 2018Middleton School District Parents and Community:I want to bring you up to date on events within the district during this difficult time for our Middleton School District students, staff, and community.Our school board held a special Board meeting this morning at 10 am. The Continue reading: Idaho’s Border-Wall-Costume School Cited in 2016 for Segregating Classrooms by Sex | deutsch29
