California School Board Member: A/C should go to school with more white students becasue Latinos can tolerate heat better
*I had to double check this sotry to make sure it wasn’t satire. This actually happened at the Martinez Unified School District, in Contra Costa County, California. The board member, with 20+ years of service to the district, has since apologized, in tears. VL
By Sheila Wolfe, If You Only News
Martinez School Board members have funding sufficient to provide air conditioning to only one school, but two of the schools in the district–Las Juntas Elementary and John Swett Elementary–are currently without it. Board member Denise Elsken piped up with her thoughts on the matter, only to leave some jaws dropped:
I would say 95% of the students at Las Juntas do not have air conditioning in their homes. So, whether that means those students are more acclimated and can handle a little bit more heat than the John Swett students, which I would say 95% of their residents have air conditioning in their homes.
As you can imagine some parents were outraged.
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