Florida school singles out Black pupils as ‘problem’ group for talk on test scores

The nine- and 10-year-old students were shown a powerpoint presentation entitled ‘AA presentation’, referring to African American. Photograph: Matt Slocum/AP

A Florida elementary school has prompted outrage for singling out its Black students to attend a special assembly identifying them, as a group, as a “problem” because of standardized test performances.

Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at Bunnell elementary school in Flagler county, central Florida, were pulled from class last Friday and mandated to attend the presentation on improving test scores, the Washington Post reported.