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Race About one-fifth of the high school students here are boycotting classes to protest the reinstatement of a principal who

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问题                                              Race
    About one-fifth of the high school students here are boycotting classes to protest the reinstatement of a principal who threatened to ban interracial couples from the prom.
    The boycott began on Monday as classes resumed after spring break for the 680 students at Randolph County High School.
    It was also the first day back for the principal, Hulond Humphries, a white man who was reinstated by a 4-to-2 vote of the school board after being suspended on March 14. Mr.Humphries, 55, who has been principal for 25 years, declined to comment on the boycott.
    The boycott was organized by the school board’s only black member, Charlotte Clark-Freison.
    Parents who attended a meeting on Monday night decided to keep their children out of school today, said Ms. Clark-Freison.
    A group of parents traveled today to Montgomery, about 90 miles to the southwest, to meet with state education officials and ask about setting up an alternative school during the boycott, Ms. Clark-Freison said.
    School Superintendent Dale McKay said he did not know how many students were absent form class either on Monday or today.
    Tawanna Mize, a white senior, said school attendance sheets showed 157 absent students, 115 of them black. Ms. Clark-Freison said about 200 black students boycotted today. She did not know how many white students stayed away.
    Many black students gathered on Monday and today at two churches to discuss multicultural issues and non-violent protests. Many of the boycotting students wore black-and-white ribbons.
    The boycotters included ReVonda Bowen, who filed a civil rights lawsuit against Mr. Humphries for saying at a school assembly on Feb. 24 that she was "a mistake" because her father is white and her mother is black. At the same assembly, Mr. Humphries announced that mixed-race couples would not be allowed at the prom and that the dance would be cancelled if they showed up.
    The next day, Mr. Humphries withdrew the threat to close the prom if mixed-race couples showed up, and he said his comments had been misunderstood.
选项 A、critical.
B、apathetic
C、sympathetic
D、neutral.
答案D
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