{"id":66070,"date":"2020-09-14T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/westchester-school-under-fire-for-cartoon-comparing-cops-to-kkk-slave-owners\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:10:00","slug":"westchester-school-under-fire-for-cartoon-comparing-cops-to-kkk-slave-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/westchester-school-under-fire-for-cartoon-comparing-cops-to-kkk-slave-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"#Westchester school under fire for cartoon comparing cops to KKK, slave owners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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September 13, 2020 |<\/span> 5:10pm |<\/span> Updated September 13, 2020 | 5:11pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n A Westchester County high-school teacher kicked off his first day of classes by handing out an image on the Black Lives Matter movement \u2014 comparing modern-day cops to slave owners and the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

Westlake HS educator Christoper Moreno gave his 11th-graders a handout Sept. 8 which included a five-frame cartoon panel.<\/p>\n

The first three frames show slave owners and a member of the KKK with their knees on the backs of black men in shackles. The KKK member also has a noose around the black man\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n

The last two panels depict a sheriff and a police officer each with their knees on the neck of a black man in handcuffs. The black man is saying, \u201cI can\u2019t breath\u2019\u2019 \u2014 what black Minneapolis victim George Floyd gasped as his neck was knelt on by white cop Derek Chauvin, sparking ongoing BLM protests across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter showed me the paper. I said, `What is this?! You\u2019ve got to be kidding me!\u2019 \u201d said Westlake mom Ania Paternostro. \u201cThis cartoon compares the police to the KKK. It\u2019s an attack on the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mother said she immedia<\/a>tely fired off letters of protest to Mount Pleasant School District Superintendent Kurt Kotes and Westlake Principal Keith Schenker, whose school is in the district.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnough is enough,\u201d Paternostro told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cartoon is disturbing. We have to respect the men in blue who protect us,\u201d added the mom of two, a native of Poland.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need a teacher brainwashing my kids. I\u2019ll teach my kids about what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her daughter Nicole said she was troubled by Moreno\u2019s lesson plan because she considered it one-sided and anti-police, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cartoon was disgusting,\u2019\u2019 the teen said. \u201cIt compared the police with all the terrible people in history. It was not fair. It wasn\u2019t right.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Nicole said she has been bullied on social media over the past few days and called a racist for blowing the whistle on the controversial lesson plan.<\/p>\n

Moreno did not respond to e-mail and phone requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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Kotes and Schenker declined comment \u2014 although the superintendent sent a letter to Paternostro and the parents of other kids in the class promising an \u201cinvestigation\u2019\u2019 into the lesson plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to address an issue that I have recently been advised is of deep concern to many members of our community,\u2019\u2019 Kotes wrote in his letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecifically, I have been advised that one of our High School teachers may have recently conducted a lesson that many have deemed to be highly controversial in the current climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to assure the community that the District will be conducting a thorough investigation to determine what exactly occurred in this particular classroom and what, if any, action is to be taken under the circumstances to app<\/a>ropriately address the matter,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the investigation has been completed we will follow up with the community to the extent necessary and legally appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Either way, the lesson did not sit well with members of Westlake\u2019s law-enforcement community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a smack in the face to law enforcement, it\u2019s an absolutely a smear of the police,\u201d Steve Kardian, a retired Mt. Pleasant police officer and former New York city Department of Investigations prober, to The Post of the cartoon.<\/p>\n

Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican running for state senate in the district, added, \u201cParents don\u2019t send their children to school to learn to hate America and our police.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur schools should be a place for the open exchange of ideas, not political indoctrination. The false narratives and brainwashing has to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The controversy comes just weeks after the Wylie Independent School District in Texas pulled an online assignment \u2014 which featured the same cartoon \u2014 given to eighth graders.<\/p>\n

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott called for the teacher who assigned the lesson to be fired.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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