A White headmaster at a Catholic school in Long Island, N.Y., forced a Black 11-year-old student to kneel down and apologize to a teacher — calling it the “African way” to say sorry, the Daily News reported.
The boy’s mother, Trisha Paul, says it was disturbing enough to learn about the punishment of her sixth-grade son at the hands of St.
Martin de Porres Marianist school headmaster John Holian. “St. Martin’s neither condones nor accepts the actions of our headmaster.
The incident does not reflect our long, established values or the established protocols regarding student related issues. We have launched an internal review of the incident and restated in the clearest terms what is the established and approved practice for student-faculty