China News Service, April 26. According to a comprehensive compilation report by the US "Sing Tao Daily", Ward, the director of the San Dieguito Union High School school district in northern San Diego County, USA, has recently made stereotype comments on Asian students and families, causing Chinese parents. Backlash, Chinese parents initiated a joint signature to demand their resignation.
On the 22nd, the school district board of directors decided to vote 3 to 1 to let Ward take paid administrative leave and replace it with the deputy superintendent Douglas. Ward believes that he has been retaliated against and will sue the school district if he is really dismissed.
According to the "Fox 5 San Diego" report, Auman, a member of the school district board of directors, asked Ward, the superintendent, why Asian students performed well in school and obtained lower D and F grades than other groups. She answered that wealthy families moved to Canada from China. Migu, the new immigrants who can enter this journey are very rich, otherwise they would not be able to spend 2 million to buy property in the community, and Chinese families have parents and grandparents to raise their children at home, and some parents of Latino families are busy with work and cannot help at home child.
After her remarks, it caused a backlash from the community, believing that she had strengthened the Asian stereotype.
While Ward has reiterated his apology several times after discovering the uproar, many families believe there are consequences for speaking inappropriately in high positions.
More than 50 parents participated in the board meeting on the 20th to protest against Ward's inappropriate remarks. One parent said that he was very shocked to make such a low-level comment based on Ward's education. After apologizing, we should return to children's education itself and stop the war of words.
Ward said in an interview with "cbs8" and "nbc7" on the 23rd that her comments at the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion conference were deliberately manipulated out of context, and she attributed her complaint to Oman on March 10. , determined that it was Auman who retaliated against her cyberbullying and angered the community at the same time. She definitely did not want to harm any children or any ethnic group. If she was fired for this, she would discuss with a lawyer and file a lawsuit against the school district.
As of the afternoon of the 24th, more than 1,700 people have signed the joint signature initiated by Ward on the petition website.