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US student suspended for filming teacher using racial slur
bbc ^ | 05/17/2023

Posted on 05/17/2023 6:22:10 AM PDT by devane617

A US high school is facing criticism after it suspended a student for recording her teacher using a racial slur in class.

Mary Walton, 15, filmed her teacher saying the n-word repeatedly on 9 May at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri.

Her family has since retained a lawyer and asked the school to apologise.

School officials said they believe the student was disciplined appropriately. The teacher who used the slur has quit.

As well as an apology, the young student and her mother, Kate Welborn, have asked the school to strike the suspension off her academic record, her lawyer Natalie Hull told the BBC.

The attorney argued that the suspension sends the wrong message to students.

"If you take a video of a teacher doing something wrong, then you yourself could also get in trouble," Ms Hull said.

The lawyer said that at the time of the incident students had been discussing the racial slur.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: racist
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1 posted on 05/17/2023 6:22:10 AM PDT by devane617
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To: devane617
A couple things: 1.) Students should not have their phones in class. 2.) Teachers should not be using racial slurs. 3.) The use of a racial slur could be collaborated by other students, without a need for a phone.

Just a little school/teacher story ... Yesterday was election day in PA. I went to vote at my local precinct which is at a school. It was ill timed, as a mass horde of teachers were leaving the school. I had though I waited for students to clear out, but had no idea about the teachers. I never saw such slovenly, childish looking teachers in my life. They dress like children, not adults. I guarantee that they act like overgrown teenagers when then are teaching. They have no respect for their students or themselves. It was pathetically unprofessional. Maybe that has something to do with what a terrible job they do and how teachers fail to gain the respect of students.

2 posted on 05/17/2023 6:32:41 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: devane617
So they were discussing the "n" word at the time.

Maybe she was making the point that if you say this word...not a damn thing happens...but you lose your job.

Santa is no longer allowed to say Ho Ho Ho.

See the problem...a word is just a word.....unless it is aimed PERSONALLY at someone.

3 posted on 05/17/2023 6:33:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: devane617
"If you take a video of a teacher protected class doing something wrong, then you yourself could also get in trouble,"

Perhaps I assume overmuch. But I doubt it.

4 posted on 05/17/2023 6:35:29 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I had a broken vacuum cleaner. I put a Justin Beeber sticker on it. Now it sucks again.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I’ve been saying for a while....more male teachers might resolve 90% of our teaching/learning problems.


5 posted on 05/17/2023 6:35:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: devane617
If they were actually talking *about* racial slurs in class, then maybe some examples were justified.
But who knows? It's so hard to get the complete story nowadays.
Why is here is a word that's so toxic it can't even be used in an example without triggering someone?

6 posted on 05/17/2023 6:51:30 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: devane617

video cameras should be on in the classroom and all parents should have access to the bullshit that the lib/LGBTQ/communist indoctrinators are shoveling and how LITTLE ACTUAL TEACHING IS DONE.

They can also see how little Johnny and Jenny are acting like fools.


7 posted on 05/17/2023 6:52:35 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 "deo duce ferro comitantes" <p><b><i></I></B><P> <img src=""> )
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“Mary Walton, 15, filmed her teacher saying the n-word repeatedly Mary Walton, 15, filmed her teacher saying the n-word repeatedly...students had been discussing the racial slur.


Lot’s of important details missing. We are told the teacher said the word while students were discussing it. Apparently even saying the word within the context of a discussion about it is forbidden. Were the students discussing the word punished?


8 posted on 05/17/2023 7:22:55 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: devane617

So, it was a discussion about racial slurs. Sounds like a learning experience. Maybe the students set her up. Have the students who brought up the subject been tarred and feathered yet or are the little darlings protected?


9 posted on 05/17/2023 7:47:14 AM PDT by bgill
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Wonder how long it would take for the student to pass out on it’s first trip in a biker bar or a bar near the docks a ghetto bar.............


10 posted on 05/17/2023 7:50:09 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Sacajaweau
Nope.

1. Get rid of the Department of Education est. 1979

2. Get rid of Degrees in Education.

All my secondary school teachers had Masters or PhDs in their chosen field. They knew their subject matter. Not today's teachers!

11 posted on 05/17/2023 7:56:53 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Now that you mention it. Almost all my male teachers wore ties, dress shirts, slacks, and polished shoes. The women always dressed conservatively. Seeing the slobs on tiktok of the blue haired freaks demonstrates the sorry state of affairs.


12 posted on 05/17/2023 8:11:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: BitWielder1

Why is here is a word that’s so toxic it can’t even be used in an example without triggering someone?
== =

Johnny. (oops, and Jenny), recite the 25 letters of the alphabet.


13 posted on 05/17/2023 1:02:40 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: devane617
at the time of the incident students had been discussing the racial slur.

Maybe if the schools were still teaching American literature like Huckleberry Finn, the students wouldn't need to discuss "the n-word" out of context in a way that would get a teacher fired?

-PJ

14 posted on 05/17/2023 1:10:37 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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