Teacher Responds to Backlash Over Faking Black, Palestinian Heritage
"It's so far from being enough, but I don't know what else to say. I am still trying to do everything I can to make this right.""And adults leaving nasty comments about my students: it is sickening and disgusting," Gann's post continued. "The only reason I'm leaving this page up is so you can come at me, not them.
- ▪"It's so far from being enough, but I don't know what else to say.
- ▪I am still trying to do everything I can to make this right.""And adults leaving nasty comments about my students: it is sickening and disgusting," Gann's post continued.
- ▪"The only reason I'm leaving this page up is so you can come at me, not them.
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By Joshua Rhett MillerSenior Reporter0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.A white teacher in Philadelphia who admitted lying about having Palestinian and Black heritage publicly apologized for a second time on Thursday, insisting she's "heartbroken" by blowback connected to her elaborate ruse.Hannah Gann, a pro-Palestinian activist and teacher at the Workshop School in Philadelphia, expressed remorse for her actions in an Instagram post a week after outing herself on social media as local racial justice organizations questioned her background....Read More on News"I am so, so sorry," Gann wrote Thursday on Instagram.
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