A North Carolina high school’s controversial classroom demonstration garnered so much public outcry that the district ordered it to be taken down and will have teachers retrained.
The door decorations at West Charlotte High School were a part of black history month and showed how segregation was implemented at a Sears Department Store from 1930.
Rather than merely criticizing segregation, however, the signs were actually meant to point to efforts by the department store to allow blacks and whites to shop together.
“The purpose of the door was to show that Sears, which is a department store, was one of the first stores that allowed blacks to shop with white people,” said Laquinta Caldwell, the daughter of the teacher, to NBC News.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools said the signs were up only for a few hours on Feb. 14.
The district also said that teachers will be retrained on appropriate lessons of the history curriculum.
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