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School suspends teachers,reprimands others after video controversy

A teacher was suspended without pay and several more educators were reprimanded after video of a school play goes viral.

The video was being shared on Facebook showed second-graders at an Atlanta charter school performing a black history play while holding blackface masks.

Weeks after the play parents are still talking about what happened at the school. Leaders sent a message to parents stating even though the performance wasn’t done with ill intent, it did lack professional judgemental.

Read entire article at Fox5