A Missouri student has been suspended after filming her white geometry teacher saying the N-word multiple times during class. Now, the girl and her family are calling for the school to take away the suspension and apologize.
Mary Walton, a 15-year-old student at Glendale High School in Springfield, was informed on Friday morning that she was being suspended after recording her teacher using the N-word in class.
“She’s still processing everything, and she doesn’t understand what she did wrong,” Mary’s attorney, Natalie Hull, shared with The Daily Beast on Monday. In the video that is currently surfacing on social media, the teacher who has not yet been identified can be heard saying, “I don’t like the word,” the teacher says. “It feels like when a Black person is using it towards another Black person…how is it not still a derogatory word? I don’t get it,” he continues before being interrupted by a student explaining that enslavers used to use the term. “Is this word, ‘n—–,’ not allowed?” the teacher asks. “Don’t say it right now, as a teacher, if you want to keep your job,” the student says. “I’m not calling anyone a ‘n—–,’” the teacher says, as the camera angle comes up and shows his face. “I can say the word.” Then, the teacher sees the camera recording him and tells Mary to put her phone away and demands for her to go to the office after she declines to stop recording.
On Tuesday, Glendale High School Principal Dr. Josh Grove sent a letter to families, RiverFront Times reported.
“We are aware of a Glendale teacher using offensive, derogatory language during class today,” the letter read. “A video of the comments is being circulated and we have received several calls from concerned parents. I want you to know that the comments expressed in the video are inappropriate, inexcusable and do not meet the professional standards for Springfield Public Schools employees.”
After being suspended Mary and her family reportedly reached out to the school and also district officials and requested for Mary to be allowed back into school and also an apology attached with it, but Hull says, “We have not had any response.”
According to the schools handbook a student can be suspended for cell phone usage in class. Electronic devices, such as cell phones, “may be in the student’s possession as long as they are not disruptive to the educational process or in violation of site use procedures.”
However, the handbook says students will be punished for using electronics “to record, publish or display audio or visual images of events involving faculty, staff or other students in or around school premises, without approval of school personnel.”
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