A Maryland jury has awarded a white teacher $350,000 in damages for being discriminated against by his former principal, an African-American woman.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post reports teacher Jon Everhart, 65, filed a lawsuit in 2010 against Prince George\u2019s County Public Schools on the grounds that Largo High School Principal Angelique Simpson-Marcus subjected him to abuse because of his race.principal simpson-marcus with cut line<\/p>\n
Everhart claims Simpson-Marcus called him \u201cpoor white trash\u201d and \u201cwhite b\u2014-,\u201d and told students that the \u201conly reason a white teacher teaches in (Prince George\u2019s) County is that they can\u2019t get a job elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simpson-Marcus\u2019 hostility toward Everhart reportedly began in 2003 when both were working as teachers in Largo High School. Everhart says Simpson-Marcus told him that if she ever became principal, he would be the first person she would fire, the Washington Post reports.<\/p>\n
Bryan Chapman, Everhart\u2019s attorney, said that when Simpson-Marcus became the school\u2019s principal in 2007, \u201cEverhart, who was once named the school\u2019s Teacher of the Year and who received stellar evaluations, started to receive unsatisfactory performance evaluations,\u201d the news site reports.<\/p>\n
Media reports indicate Everhart was fired after the 2009-10 school year.<\/p>\n
Everhart says his years of harassment from Simpson-Marcus contributed to a decline in his health, including high blood pressure and heart problems.<\/p>\n
Simpson-Marcus denies all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never said any of those things,\u201d she told the Post. \u201cI don\u2019t use that kind of language.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, a group of Largo High School employees claims otherwise.<\/p>\n
According to a 2011 Washington Post article, several faculty members said Simpson-Marcus \u201croutinely called her secretaries names, such as \u2018chicken heads,\u2019 \u2018ghetto\u2019 and \u2018hood rats.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The teachers also said they were mistreated for vocally supporting Everhart.<\/p>\n
A judge will decide if Everhart should also be awarded back pay, retirement and health benefits, and the restoration of his teaching certificate, the Post adds.<\/p>\n
Prince George\u2019s school leaders may appeal the $350,000 ruling.<\/p>\n
Source: eagnews.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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