A veteran Maryland high school teacher’s defamation lawsuit regarding “racist” comments he made about assigned seats is now being heard in court.
According to Bethesda Today, in early 2023 Daniel Engler was attempting to get new students into assigned seats in one of his health classes when he allegedly told two of them “if they didn’t sit in their assigned seats, he wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.”
The students, who are black, took the remark as “racist.”
Engler denies “saying what the students alleged or making any type of racial comment.”