A Georgia school system is expected this week to announce whether or not one of its teachers will resign, following recent classroom comments she reportedly made about President Barack Obama's religion.
The Georgia NAACP demanded at Monday's board of education meeting the resignation of both veteran Dublin Middle School teacher Nancy Perry and her husband Bill, a board member, according to WMAZ.
"We demand that the school district do the right thing, and the right thing would be to demand the resignation of the school board member in question and to accept the resignation of the faculty member," President Francys Johnson said to the board, according to WMAZ.
The NAACP has previously alleged in a letter that Perry told her students in class one day that Obama is not a Christian and that any parent who supports Obama is not a Christian, either. Parents of a 12-year-old boy in Perry's class first brought the matter to light; dad Jimmie Scott gave his own paraphrasing of her comments in an interview with WMAZ.
"If your parents voted for Obama, they're evil and I don't see how your parents could vote for someone that's Muslim" he told the station.
In its letter the NAACP also alleged that both Perrys attended a parent-teacher conference soon after the comments were made, which Scott confirmed to WMAZ.
The comments were made in late February, after which the matter was brought to the attention of the school principal and system officials, Dublin City Schools Superintendent Chuck Ledbetter told the AJC on April 3.
Measures have been taken to make sure the situation didn't happen again, Ledbetter said then. He declined to give specifics.
Johnson told the AJC in a story last week that the Georgia NAACP was meeting with Ledbetter, and would consider its options if the response was unsatisfactory.
Following Johnson's comments Monday, the school board entered a closed session to discuss personnel, according to WMAZ. Perry's husband sat out of the meeting.
Perry previously told WGMT that "what has been reported is 'untrue'" and called this an "unfortunate issue.'"
