Posted on 10/23/2007 4:20:59 PM PDT by Stoat
More than 100 boys and girls aged from seven to 11 were lined up from the fairest skinned to the darkest.
But the segregation left several of the pupil so upset they cried to their parents when they got home.
One angry mother said: "My 10-year-old was told to go further back in the line as she was not white enough. She came home devastated saying, 'I wish my skin was lighter mummy.'"
Another parent, Ann Andrew, 49, said her daughter, Angela, 10, came home in tears and said: "My school's so racist."
Dozens of parents have complained to Sandhurst Junior School in Lewisham. Headteacher Val Hughes said pupils had been divided up according to skin tone but claimed it was to make it easier for the photographer.
In a letter to Mrs Andrews she said: "Some classes were organised lightest to darkest skin tone and some darkest to lightest. This meant the photographer did not have to keep re-adjusting his reflector screens."
Parents are planning to protest to Lewisham council.
Set the lighting at one setting, and when the parents get crummy pictures, let ‘em cry.
Well, where’s the picture? The description is of an artistically beautiful arrangement, like a human fade from light to dark, dark to light. Why must we be so easily offended?
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