Teacher in trouble after students don white robes

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Teacher in trouble after students don white robes

Monday, May 24, 2010

Lumpkin County Schools superintendent Dewey Moye told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that teacher Catherine Ariemma made a poor decision.

Administrators say four students in Ariemma's advanced placement history class donned Klan-like outfits while filming historical reenactments. Moye says students saw them Thursday and parents of a black student complained.

Moye says Ariemma is on leave with pay. Reached by The Associated Press Monday, Ariemma said she didn't regret the project, but that it was poor judgment to allow them to film at school.


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