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A former Vermont school administrator has revealed that she was forced to quit her job after bouts of racial harassment caused her mental and physical health to decline and made her work in “a place of perpetual fear.”
During the Addison Central School District board meeting Monday, Esther Charlestin spoke out on why she left her job as the Dean of Climate and Culture at Middlebury Union Middle School.
“I share my story for those who feel invisible, who can’t speak because it could jeopardize their jobs, for those whose BIPOC children are struggling and they have no choice but to keep them in our public schools, and for those who have been silenced,’” Charlestin read from an essay she wrote in August for the Addison County Independent. “You are not alone.”