Arlington school district substitute used racial slur, report says; teacher dismissed
An Arlington school district substitute teacher admonishing a student’s language last week used a racial slur in his class, according to a television report that cited another educator who arrived in the room immediately after the incident.
The district said that it fired the substitute teacher.
The school district’s spokesperson said that it learned of the matter on Monday and launched an investigation. The district found that the substitute teacher had used inappropriate language, the spokesperson said.
“The district does not condone the use of any offensive, derogatory or inappropriate language in educational learning environments,” according to a district statement.
The teacher used the slur on Friday at Swift Elementary School as he spoke to a sixth-grade student, according to a KDFW-TV report.
The television station report refers to a teacher, whose name it did not use, who says she was in a hall when she noticed a commotion from a classroom. The teacher heard from students and talked with the substitute, who confirmed that he had used the slur and would “say it again,” she told KDFW.
The mother of a student whose friends were present and recalled the incident to him said that a student used the phrase “Oh my God” and that the substitute said the slur as he explained that it was similarly inappropriate, according to the KDFW-TV report.
In the Fort Worth school district, Superintendent Kent Scribner has recommended that its board fire a Paschal High School teacher who did not stop a student from delivering a class presentation in which the student used a racial slur several times.
A video shows a student presenting what appears to be a reinterpretation of “Romeo and Juliet,” apparently resetting the play during the days of American slavery. During the presentation, the student repeats a slur as some of his classmates laugh and others exclaim in surprise.
