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Utah Teacher Who Posted Video Saying She Built Her Classroom for ‘Non-White Students’ Placed on Leave

A Utah elementary school teacher who said that she built her classroom for “non-white students” and had “no white kids represented” in the books and media in the class has been placed on leave.

The fourth grade teacher was newly hired at William Penn Elementary School.

“For the first time in my life, I’m going to be teaching at a majority-white school, and I’m kind of interested to see how students and parents react to my classroom, or if they even notice anything about it, because it’s built for nonwhite students,” the teacher said in the video.

The teacher also said that there are “no White kids represented” within the classroom, even on coloring pages.

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“If you look around and you interact with some of the materials I have, you’ll notice that there’s like, no white kids represented in that,” the teacher said. “So just on like that, that very first level of multicultural education, and I don’t think, like, my new students will mind, but you know, not a single white face there.”