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Please. First, it would be a tough sell to definitively characterize this as "making fun". The teacher asked a question about "who rocked it" better.
Usually, that particular colloquialism has a positive connotation, and moreover the teacher's use of "better" (ie: instead of "worse") has an additional positive connotation.
Unless you are assuming a negative social connotation for the hairstyle off of the bat, which the teacher did not indicate that he/she did and that would actually be "racist" in the hyper-sensitive "all cultures are equal" environment that we have today. Is it your personal assumption that this hairstyle carries a negative social value?
What school did you go to? One that didn't care about you or one that was ineffective in molding you as a person? Because good teachers get personal with students in a lot of ways. Some of it is tough love, and some of it is merely banter that socializes everyone to one another in the long several years they have together. My most impactful teacher was the hardest on me.
Schools where teachers teach, shut up and go home have little character impact on students. Minorities are struggling, and they require that impact. Making teachers afraid to interact will hurt the kids and no one else (well, also society as a whole).
Minorities are also having issues integrating. If you want to get racial about it, "white" education has always included socially personal (not robotic) interaction with teachers toward shaping kids as people.
The fact is that hairstyle is a socially dysfunctional one. Similar to a Mohawk for a white child. It may look cool to them, but there is nothing wrong with reinforcing subtle social shame in regard to it. Kids need to come out of school with the social perspective that makes them hireable. Though, I don't think any of that was what this teacher was doing at all.
Calling for this teacher's head over this is shameful and, in my mind, socially dysfunctional.
Nah man, that's your job. I already said it wasn't a race thing.
We have basically everyone believing the teacher was wrong, and that it wasn't a race thing. It's about as unanimous as this forum can get.
Honestly, just skimmed through your pompous rhetoric, it's the same thing over and over. Here's a more succinct quote from someone who's opinion matters in this situation.
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“We were made aware of an inappropriate Instagram post made by one of our staff members when it was sent to the Peel District School Board Twitter account yesterday,” district spokeswoman Carla Pereira said in a statement. “As the post shared is considered anti-black racism, we became concerned as this behavior is simply unacceptable.”
Pereira added: “We don’t yet know how long the investigation will take or what the outcome will be, as we’re just getting started, but want to assure our community that this matter is being taken very seriously by senior leadership of the Peel board.”
The teacher could face discipline ranging from a verbal reprimand to sensitivity training or even termination, according to Toronto City News.
Basically in line with what everyone else is saying, but actually taking it a little further. That's to be expected, they're Canadian, ey.
I wouldn’t mind banning politics on social media. That would include CD.
Wouldn't be a bad idea, honestly...
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