DOVER, New Hampshire — The Seacoast NAACP and its president Rogers Johnson slammed the city school district Monday for a decision to allow the teacher at the center of Dover High School’s Ku Klux Klan jingle controversy to return to his job in the fall. Dover schools Superintendent William Harbron announced the decision Friday, saying history teacher John Carver “will remain on paid administrative leave for the remainder of the 2018-2019 school year as he has committed to engage in an intensive course of study on issues pertaining to race, bias and privilege.” Johnson, in a lengthy statement issued Monday morning, stated the organization is “deeply disappointed in the decision.” “While we believe in the concept of ‘second chances,’ no amount of ‘rehabilitation’ will erase the trauma experienced by the students, their parents and the community due to his outrageous and overtly racist teaching practice exhibited in his classroom, e.g.

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