Miami preschool blackface controversy: Everything we know so far
Emily Cortez
Published Jan 29, 2026
A preschool in Miami has been grabbing a great deal of eye on the web for observing Dark History Month by sprucing up the children in blackface. The photographs from the episode were circled making an immense debate.
In the wake of seeing the photographs on the school’s inward application, guardians were shocked and scrutinized the school specialists. Despite the fact that the school has apologized, no disciplinary move has been initiated against the educator.
What occurred at Miami Pre-school? The concerned pre-school goes by the name Studio Children @Little Waterway. On February 3, the school was observing Dark History month. Thusly, the photographs of somewhere around two toddlers,2, wearing dull cosmetics to look like dark face, were posted. Moreover, the children were additionally wearing development specialist ensembles in a similar picture.
At the point when guardians saw this occasion, they started to get down on the bigoted way of behaving from the school. They quickly brought it up to the preschool’s chief, Patricia Vitale. One of the parent purportedly asserted that Vitale minimized the bigoted idea of it. Indeed, he even inquired as to why it is a major ordeal.
A Preschool teacher in Miami put blackface on kids for “Black History Month” lesson.
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) February 13, 2023
Anyway subsequently, Vitale sent a statement of regret letter to every one of the guardians. He stated, “We have not expected to irritate anybody, and we’re grieved about any bother.”
Vitale’s statement of regret didn’t affect the guardians and a couple of guardians even chose to haul their children out of the school. Following which, Vitale sent a more genuine and serious message to everybody.
The message read, “We needed to tell every one of the guardians that we met on Friday evening with every one of the educators and staff”. He proceeded to make reference to every one of the essential advances taken by the school to stay away from such occasions from now on.
