<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An Alabama school district is apologizing after a mother shared that she picked up her son from school and discovered a bullet wound had been painted on his forehead.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zakiya Milhouse was horrified to see the realistic looking wound painted on her 7-year-old son Amonn Jackson’s face. He told his mother that it was makeup from drama class. Milhouse acknowledged she signed a permission slip to allow the use of makeup in drama class, but she never imagined it would be something like this.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This actually happens to our black young men,” Milhouse told <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/10/fake-bullet-wound-painted-on-second-grader-angers-mom.html">Al.com</a>. “If you saw it in person, it looked real.” She added that putting makeup on a child to mimic a bullet wound did not seem like an age-appropriate school lesson.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After Milhouse shared the photo of her son on social media, she said she received an apologetic call from the principal. “He said this was unacceptable,” Milhouse said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Milhouse also spoke to the teacher, who apologized, she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He didn’t think it was a real big deal,” Milhouse said. “He said he did paint on different kids, such as black eyes. He said was going to take it out of his lesson plan.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Birmingham City Schools issued the following statement:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Birmingham City Schools is aware of an image posted by a parent on social media depicting a wound on a student’s head. The student was participating in a theater class unit on stage, film, and special effects.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The teacher sent permission forms home with students making parents aware of the unit and requesting permission to put makeup on students.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students were asked if they would like the makeup on their hands or faces, and this student chose his face. Students are never forced to participate, and they had the option to skip a design.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The teacher and principal called the student’s mother to apologize for the incident, and the teacher assured the student’s mother that no malice was behind the depiction. The teacher also stated that the only aim in teaching makeup techniques is to help students appreciate and understand the technical elements of performing arts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a culturally responsive school system, Birmingham City Schools takes issues like this very seriously and does not condone the graphic nature of this lesson on special effects. We regret any issues and perceptions this incident may have caused, and this portion of the lesson will be removed from the unit.”</span></p>
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