‘I Was Mad, But I Was More Shocked’: Georgia Parents Outraged After 6-Year-Old Girl Returns Home from School In Only T-Shirt and Underwear

A South Georgia elementary school is facing backlash after a six-year-old Black girl was sent home wearing only a t-shirt and underwear.Avishaye Daniels, the girl’s mother, said she sent her daughter Aylah to Baker County Elementary School fully clothed in the morning, only to have her return home in Newton with no shorts on.Outraged, the girl’s parents reached out to the school only to learn their daughter had been dressed in that state from noon until 3 p.m. and was sent home without any explanation. Aylah’s father was fuming over the school’s lack of oversight.“How can you look over my 6-year-old daughter in just a t-shirt and panties, socks and shoes for three hours?” said Aylah’s father, Daman Bell, according to WALB.“I was mad, but I was more shocked than anything,” Daniels said.Images obtained by a local TV news station show the child dressed in a white shirt with green lettering, jean shorts, and pink sneakers before heading off to school.However, by the time she returned home, she was dressed in a longer white shirt with red and blue lettering.Baker County Schools Principal Jeff Henderson explained that the school held a chalk party, during which students’ clothes got dirty, and...