A photo of Noose displayed in a classroom in New York draws its action from the school district

10, 2019, 21:07 GMT

From Janelle Griffith

A school district of Long Island, New York, states that it has taken "the measures that impose" against teachers of an intermediate school to display "offensive racist images" showing flowing knots in a classroom.

A photo, part of a larger collage exhibited in a classroom, showed two flowing knots referred to as "back to school necklaces". The words "ha" and "#yes" also appear on the photo.

The Roosevelt School District said this weekend in a statement that he was aware of the "inappropriate behavior" of an "isolated group of teachers" in Roosevelt Middle. School.

"The Education Council was informed of this incident on Thursday, February 7, 2019," said the district. "An investigation was immediately opened and appropriate measures taken."

] Arthur Mackey Jr., pastor of the Cathedral of Mount Sinai Baptist Church in Roosevelt, shared the photo on Facebook Saturday. He said that a color teacher who worked at the Roosevelt Middle School – and did not want to be named publicly – had shared the photo with him.

"Once this was brought to my attention and I saw the picture, we knew we had get up and inform the public," Mackey told NBC News Sunday. "All we ask, is after a thorough investigation, that whoever is involved in this racist image be fired."

Mackey confirmed the authenticity of the photo with other teachers in the school before contacting the administrators this weekend.

The district stated in its statement that it had "zero tolerance for the display of racist images", adding that it could not say more "because it was Is a matter of staff ".

Roosevelt Middle School has a student body on the date of. According to the New York State Department of Education, the 2017-2018 school year is at 55% Hispanic or Latin American and about 45% Black or African American.

Mackey, Roosevelt's permanent resident, stated that Roosevelt's school system was under state control. from 2002 to 2013. It was the first district of New York to be taken over by the state. She was removed from the State Department's list of troubled schools in 2016.

"We've come a long way with their grades," said Mackey. "For a teacher, doing this is a humiliating situation."