A black female educator offered the position of interim principal at Amherst Regional Middle School doesn't want it anymore after being publicly criticized by the mother of a student who identifies as transgender for the way she used restorative justice to handle complaints of bullying.
The mother, Kara Knott, of Shutesbury, called Letha Gayle-Brissett, the school's climate and cultural coordinator, "the wrong choice" for interim principal.
