Parents and community members turned two weeks of anger toward Middleton School Board members Monday night, claiming the school administration had made “scapegoats” of the Middleton Heights teachers and principal.
The school district placed 14 Middleton Heights staff members on paid administrative two weeks ago, after they wore costumes during an after-school staff activity on Halloween depicting national and ethnic stereotypes, including a border wall.
By Sunday, petitions in support of and against the teachers had gathered thousands of signatures from Idaho and around the country.
The Idaho Press reports, several attendees of the meeting say the board only listened to one side of the story, and that district administration had mishandled the events and following investigation, and chose to listen to outside voices instead of the Middleton community.
