White teacher gets caught dissing black students on Twitter

[Joe Money]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An East Nashville Magnet High School teacher was confronted by her students in the classroom about derogatory and insulting social media posts, which ultimately led to her resignation.

The teacher, Lyn Rushton, allegedly created a ghost Twitter account on which she posted multiple tweets about her students.

A tipster showed NewsChannel 5 screenshots of the tweets in question in which she called students out by name and made derogatory comments.

One of them said, "The ghettoness of some of my students just sickens me beyond belief." Another said, "I wish I could carry around a stamp at school to put "worthless a*******" across their heads."

Students confronted Rushton about the account and tweet while in class. The students can be heard yelling at her in a video which was posted on Facebook.

One of the tweets which named multiple students, poked fun at the length and pronunciation of their names.

"I don't want a name like everybody else! I love my name... I don't care if I walk into a job interview and they don't like my name because it's a black name. I love my name!" said one of the students.

Officials with Metro Nashville Public Schools told NewsChannel 5 Rushton took some sick days this week, and was scheduled to report to school Friday to be placed on administrative leave, but she resigned Thursday.

She talked to NewsChannel 5 and apologized for the comments she made.

"It was stupidity on my part," Rushton Said. "I'm definitely sorry for the words, absolutely, they're hurtful. They were wrong to say, and I am absolutely sorry for the words, for what I said."

Rushton resigned before Metro Schools could even investigate it. School officials released the following statement:

As part of the Tennessee Code of Ethics, teachers accept the responsibility to adhere to the highest ethical standards as part of what they do in schools every day – to serve students and the communities they live in.

Metro Schools is aware of certain social media posts of a former teacher at East Nashville Magnet High School. The posts do not reflect our values and are unacceptable.

The teacher has resigned and is no longer an employee of Metro Schools.

Rushton began teaching in the 2011-2012 school year.

http://www.newschannel5.com/news/east-nashville-teacher-resigns-amid-twitter-controversy

 

[easy_b]

To make it so bad this was a magnet school wow

 

[Louis Koo]

To make it so bad this was a magnet school wow

zactly. imagine how terrible those kids would be at a public school

 

[The Technician]

Cacs always copping pleas once caught. I'd have some respect for them if they actually stuck to their beliefs during the consequence phase.

 

[34real]

I've come to expect fuckery from white people of some type...why isn't anyone else getting this?.

Motherfucker's want to go to work parties,live next door to them,send their kids to white schools go to events where the majority are white people and then turn around and complain about the fuckery/treatment/what one of them said.

 

[alexw]

How can you properly educate these students when you feel such disdain for them? This is why schools are the most institutional racist places there are in the inner cities. We need more black teachers but all we get are young white suburbanites

 

[West Endian]

Just some more cac fuckery.

 

[MT Hermit]

I've come to expect fuckery from white people of some type...why isn't anyone else getting this?.

Motherfucker's want to go to work parties,live next door to them,send their kids to white schools go to events where the majority are white people and then turn around and complain about the fuckery/treatment/what one of them said.

exactly........

 

[g0nbad real bad]

But we are to assume that fairness in schools and businesses can come from cacs like these.

The only good thing to come from social media is shining a light on racist cacs and pedos.

 

[LSN]

exactly........

true as fuck tho

 

[MT Hermit]

true as fuck tho

IKR!!!

 

[thismybgolname]

Glad the kids confronted her.

 

[aldoogie]

Glad the kids confronted her.

Yeah big up to the kids for peeping out her real twitter account.

 

[BigATLslim]

But we are to assume that fairness in schools and businesses can come from cacs like these.

The only good thing to come from social media is shining a light on racist cacs and pedos.

 

[Mt. Yukon]

Cacs always copping pleas once caught. I'd have some respect for them if they actually stuck to their beliefs during the consequence phase.

Or just learn to STFU. Looking back, allot of my teachers were racist, you just couldnt prove it. How she feels isnt shocking, her level of stupidity is.

 

[Mentor B]

At the end of the day, it's up to us to take charge of our youth.

In order to defeat white supremacy, telling our children the truth is the key.

But Black people allow themselves to be so fucked in the head that they will feel guilty for telling our children the truth.

For every gifted Black person who has a knack for teaching but chooses not to pursue a career in education, there is some racist cac there to poison our youth. And there you have it...

It's up to us!!!

 

[Amajorfucup]

"I don't want a name like everybody else! I love my name... I don't care if I walk into a job interview and they don't like my name because it's a black name. I love my name!" said one of the students.

I love this black child and her parents raised her right as far as this shit is concerned.. Props young one..

 

[Amajorfucup]

true as fuck tho

Peep the white chick laughing at the end.

 

[PDQ21]

Know yall don't wanna hear this cause the way she went about it but I agree with the white bitch statements

I hate the way these kids dress, the way they speak, and how ghetto they act. I use to be one of those kids tho. But when u get older you see how foolish the shit was that's why I raised my son completely different.

 

[ronmch20]

ELIJAH MUHAMMAD was right. White people the world over are devils and integration would be, and has been, detrimental to the black family, black self-sufficiency, black owned and operated business, black culture, and black pride.

Prior to the civil rights era and the push for integration black people relied on each other because we had to. Out of wedlock black pregnancy was the exception rather than the norm, as was drugs and indiscriminate murders. Neighborhood businesses were owned by blacks for blacks; now they're owned by Asians, Jews, Indians and whites who despise us but will gladly accept the money we spend and then take that money out of the neighborhood. Integration is a pipe dream and racism is alive and well, and will always be, because, if truth be told, whites consider blacks to be inferior and not deserving of equality. I know dealing with them on some level is unavoidable but in doing so my modus operandi is "I may like a few, but I trust none".

 

[TEN]

 

[keith6]

I don't forgive her.

 

[playahaitian]

Should lose her license and be sued for some type of harassment of juveniles

 

[LSN]

Peep the white chick laughing at the end.

seen her...and I'm not surprised

 

[Complex]

Social media exposes the stupid once again. What they say when nobody is around.....

To make it so bad this was a magnet school wow

zactly. imagine how terrible those kids would be at a public school

So instead of being outraged at the teacher, you immediately decided the teacher was "right"

Interesting

 

[easy_b]

Social media exposes the stupid once again. What they say when nobody is around.....





So instead of being outraged at the teacher, you immediately decided the teacher was "right"

Interesting

Ummm that wasn't my point if you was talking to me. My point is that even in a magnet school where you have gifted black kids they still Face racism. This should not happen in a regular public school also.

 

[Complex]

Know yall don't wanna hear this cause the way she went about it but I agree with the white bitch statements

I hate the way these kids dress, the way they speak, and how ghetto they act. I use to be one of those kids tho. But when u get older you see how foolish the shit was that's why I raised my son completely different.

Suck a dick

A black kid can do the same thing as a white kid and it will be automatically perceived differently, because of their skin, not their actions. It will be perceived as a phase or immaturity. I bet those magnet school kids are far from ghetto. Which is really a code word when white people use it.

 

[Autobot8655]

Kudos to the young people who confronted her.

 

[playahaitian]

Ummm that wasn't my point if you was talking to me. My point is that even in a magnet school where you have gifted black kids they still Face racism. This should not happen in a regular public school also.

Agreed.

That something black parents need to understand no matter what the schook

Public private catholic charter magnet etc...

You NEED yo not only police u our shool but advocate for your child.

Sometimes we get complacency...

Just Cause we paying or its "white"

 

[xfactor]

Imagine how much better BGOL would be if a ton of boxes had fallen on your mother in one of those Chinese sweatshops she worked in.

zactly. imagine how terrible those kids would be at a public school

 

[Chitownheadbusa]

A lot of young White Teachers (both Men & Women) get their start in Black schools. Its like a test; if they can survive poor Black kids, they can survive anything.

I remember a lot of the White teachers that I had in HighSchool used to frown at the kids. Most of them eventually moved on to White schools in the Burbs.

Theres a lot of shitty Black teachers as well, but ive found that NonBlack teachers who teach in poor Black schools are the worse. Theres really no interest in teaching. The objective is to get past the probationary period until they find a new job.

 

[BitchI'llKillYa]

To make it so bad this was a magnet school wow

What's worse, there will be zero public outrage and she will have a job by the start of the next school year.

 

[easy_b]

What's worse, there will be zero public outrage and she will have a job by the start of the next school year.

She is going to be in a mostly white district no way she could come back to that area. If she get her job back

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Y'all not seeing the big picture

 

[PDQ21]

Suck a dick

A black kid can do the same thing as a white kid and it will be automatically perceived differently, because of their skin, not their actions. It will be perceived as a phase or immaturity. I bet those magnet school kids are far from ghetto. Which is really a code word when white people use it.

We not talking about crazy white students right now tho we taking about ghetto black kids

So because u disagreed with me u chose to say sum gay shit? Lol that's the type of shit that comes to ya head huh. White ppl make u that mad huh so when I black person telling u what it is u tell him suck a dick? Was I saying something false?

Use to be wildin during my teens and 20s I didn't know any better I really really really thought I would hustle my whole life no backup plan. I looked up to killers and drug dealers. The only thing that saved me was I wasn't a follower. These kids have a chance that during the 80-90s we didn't feel we had and that's OPPORTUNITY. So I have no accuses for them I blame their parents. I tell my sister all the time about the way she raising her kids but u can't tell ghetto ppl shit.