Several teachers astatine a South Carolina simple schoolhouse person been fired for dressing up arsenic Border Patrol agents to correspond Mexico arsenic portion of an 'Olympic parade' arena astatine nan school.
Royall Elementary School successful Florence faced backlash for staffers dressing up successful nan 'offensive' garb arsenic portion of celebrations for nan first week of school.
Images from nan master improvement arena show 2 unit members sporting T-shirts that publication 'U.S. Border Patrol' and posing successful beforehand of a clone ceramic wall.
A missive to parents from schools Superintendent Dr. Richard O'Malley said aggregate teachers had been fired, WMBF reported.
'Due to the serious quality of this incident, respective labor are nary longer employed by nan territory aliases person been placed connected time off by nan district's administration,' O'Malley wrote.
Staffers astatine Royall Elementary School successful Florence dressed up arsenic Border Patrol agents to correspond Mexico arsenic portion of an 'Olympic parade' arena anterior to nan first time of school
'As superintendent, I will not tolerate anything of this quality successful our schoolhouse district.'
O'Malley said nan schoolhouse will person 2 'acting administrators' until further notice.
During nan arena - which was held anterior to nan first time of schoolhouse - different staffers were seen wearing sombreros and posing successful beforehand of a motion that publication 'Royall Cantina,' which is nan Spanish connection for a bar.
A Mexican American genitor who saw nan show was among nan first to sound nan siren complete nan 'disheartening' presentation.
Her station online alerted different parents who were near successful disbelief aft spotting nan images connected nan school's charismatic Facebook page.
'As a Mexican American, arsenic an Hispanic woman, arsenic a mother of biracial Hispanic children successful nan Florence 1 School district. I'm highly offended, highly offended,' mom Annette Fling told ABC4 News.
'These are educators pinch degrees that should person known better. Out of each nan things they could person done to nan culture, community, state of Mexico, they chose to usage nan US Border Patrol.
'And Royal Cantina, which is simply a Spanish connection for bar. Inappropriate, racial. Just each astir level retired a disgrace.'
Other staffers were seen wearing sombreros and posing successful beforehand of a motion that publication 'Royall Cantina,' which is nan Spanish connection for a bar
Royall has astir 40 Hispanic and Latino students retired of 462, according to US News demographic data
Royall has astir 40 Hispanic and Latino students retired of 462, according to US News demographic data.
The schoolhouse is composed wholly of economically disadvantaged and is classed 124th retired of astir 600 South Carolina simple schools.
'It is pinch regret that we admit that a image that was posted connected our Facebook page yesterday showed an insensitive disregard for nan existent challenges our Hispanic organization faces,' nan schoolhouse said successful a statement.
'At Royall, we return awesome pridefulness successful our long-standing contented of embracing and supporting each student who walks done nan doors of our building.
'Our unit is unanimously committed to celebrating nan diverseness of our families and ensuring that each and each student astatine Royall is successful, happy, and recognized for his aliases her unsocial civilization and abilities.
'We apologize for our insensitivity but look guardant to fostering relationships arsenic we statesman a caller schoolhouse year.'