Administrators at a school district in upstate New York issued an apology after parents expressed outrage on social media about an offensive homework assignment.
Sixth graders at Mill Middle School in the Williamsville Central School District received an assignment, obtained by CNN, for their Spanish class in which they had to translate sentences from English into Spanish.One of the sentences read:"You are Mexican and ugly," while another within the same worksheet read,"You are pretty and American.
An apology from the district is not enough, this is not something that children can forget."Ignored complaints from parents in the school districtSchool officials have received complaints about potentially racist or offensive behavior by teachers for several years, but they have been met with silence, according to comments on social media from people who say they are parents of students in the district or went to Mill Middle themselves. "Wow.
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