Kelly Forostiak is a middle school fifth grade teacher at Deer Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Degrading Photos of Students

kelly received backlash in the media after posting photos on her Instagram of her fifth grade students and providing racist commentary, such as: “Field day with my little a***holes that I somehow still love #5thGradeSwag.”

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In one photo, a young Black boy wears a Mexican Sombrero and she goes on to comment, “This is an African American Mexican,”^[-1]as part of the commentary.

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She faces disciplinary actions for the commentaries and the photos.

^[12]Many have stated that she portrays her students in a ridiculing manner through the use of social media commenting.

The dastardly use of captions is a disrespect to the students' background.

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