According to The Dallas Morning News, Principal Chandra Hooper-Barnett called the group of Black students into a meeting, during which she allegedly said they were the reason that Woodrow Wilson High School received a B rating from the Texas Education Agency.

“[My son] said that Principal Barnett stated that those students, the Black students, were the reason why the school had a B rating. She said it in a derogatory manner. I was really shocked she would say something like that,” parent Jennifer Bush, noting that her son maintains a 3.5 GPA.

In a letter to parents on Sunday (October 26), Hooper-Barnett apologized and admitted the meeting “was not appropriate.”

“I take full ownership and responsibility for what occurred, and I want to assure you that it was never my intent to single out

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