In 2006, the West Virginia Human Rights Commission investigated charges that a preschool teacher at Peterson-Central Elementary School, used a biracial child as a lesson prop and told schoolmates that the child had been adopted.
A preschool teacher at Peterson-Central Elementary School was scrutinized in 2006 by the West Virginia Human Rights Commission for allegedly employing a biracial child as a teaching device and informing fellow students that the child had been adopted.