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First of all, "negro" is the Spanish word for black, which the teacher claims is the context. But even if she was using it as the English word, is that really so horrible? I knew "negro" was rather outdated, but had no idea is was so offensive as to result in a person being fired.
"The teacher, non-tenured junior high instructor Petrona Smith, 65, was fired from bilingual PS 211 in the Bronx in March 2012. Smith herself is black."
"The teacher denies directly calling a student a Negro. She told investigators that she was simply teaching students how to say different colors in Spanish. She also denied calling students failures, saying that she simply asked students who had failed a test to move to the back of the classroom."
An ESL teacher getting fired for teaching Spanish to English translations might explains why NYPISD is such a bad district.
In a lot of public school systems if you're a un-tenured teacher and kids complain about you to their parents and the parents complain to the school board--you're probably s**t out of luck. School boards don't want a lawsuit so they'll just take the word of the kid and parents or just assume that you did wrong and get rid of you.
I had a friend who got fired from his job as a junior high teacher because he was reported as calling a student stupid--what he did was make a reference to kids acting out, as "acting stupid" and asked them to control their behavior. But the kids whined to their parents and he got fired...
First of all, "negro" is the Spanish word for black, which the teacher claims is the context. But even if she was using it as the English word, is that really so horrible? I knew "negro" was rather outdated, but had no idea is was so offensive as to result in a person being fired.
Thoughts?
Maybe he should have used "colored".
If it is good enough for the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of COLORED People, it should be good enough for everyone!
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