By: Teddy Grant

A Georgia parent filed a complaint against her child’s school, accusing it of segregating classes by race, WSB TV reported.   

Kila Posey said that Sharyn Briscoe, principal at Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta, came up with the idea. “We’ve lost sleep like trying to figure out why would a person do this,” Posey says.   

“First, it was just disbelief that I was having this conversation in 2020 with a person that looks just like me — a Black woman,” Posey told WSB TV. “It’s segregating classrooms. You cannot segregate classrooms. You can’t do it.”  

Black students were placed in two separate classes with two separate teachers, while the white kids were put in six classes with six teachers, Posey said.   

The Atlanta mother asked for her kid to be placed in a classroom with a teacher who she thought would be the right fit for her child. The request was denied by Briscoe, according to Posey.   

“She said that’s not one of the Black classes, and I immediately said, ‘What does that mean?’ I was confused. I asked for more clarification. I was like, ‘We have those in the school?’ And she proceeded to say, ‘Yes. I have decided that I’m going to place all of the Black students in two classes,’” Posey said.  

Atlanta Public Schools looked into Posey’s claims and completed an investigation into the matter.   

“Atlanta public schools does not condone the assigning of students to classrooms based on race. The district conducted a review of the allegations. Appropriate actions were taken to address the issue and the matter was closed,” it said in a statement to WSB TV.   

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