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Students at a 90% black and Hispanic middle school in Park Slope say their white teacher upbraided them with racial slurs when they disrupted a movie shown in class on Wednesday. 12-year-old Pryce-Gary Forbes tells the Daily News, "She said, 'You don't know how to act. You're acting lower class. You're acting like a whole bunch of n------.'" 14-year-old Tyasia Knight was also in the class, and says, "Our reaction was like, 'What did you just call us?'" And according to Forbes, the teacher offered him candy to keep quiet about the incident! The Department of Education is investigating, but the unidentified teacher, who's employed at the Secondary School for Journalism, denied any wrongdoing when questioned by some low-class reporter: "No, I did not use the N-word in class and that's a fact. You're taking an allegation and you're making something out of it, and that's what it is, a goddamn allegation."
Students Accuse Park Slope Teacher of Using the N-Word
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I wondered if the teacher is African American? I find it hard to believe a teacher in public schools would use the N-word. She could have use any other words besides the N-word to scold them.
Never mind, in the article it states the teacher is caucasian
Dam honkeys.
That kid is going to become rich. At least till Al Sharpton gets his mitts on it.
"that's what it is, a goddamn allegation."
That's just too perfect.
She should be more pissed at her parents for naming her Pryce-Gary.
Maybe it was a lesson of the African nation called Niger?? Just sayin'.
maybe they misheard the teacher:
'You don't know how to act. You're acting lower class. You're acting like a whole bunch of niggards.'
why can't they be like obama
or as DAG says tone down on the coonage.
Number10 Regardless of what they were acting like and the teacher's covert views she should have practiced some DECORUM and expressed her frustrations in a better more educated fashion. The vicious cycle of IGNORANCE is only perpetuated in a case such as this when those that children look up to and learn from are the worst examples to follow!!
what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Could the students be making all this up? Never know with some of these nasty students.
>> "No, I did not use the N-word in class and that's a fact. You're taking an allegation and you're making something out of it, and that's what it is, a goddamn allegation." >>
See, this teacher is obviously calm and well-mannered!
Silly teacher. Doesn't s/he know that it's perfectly fine for blacks to throw the "n" word around like confetti, but when a a white person does it, it's hate speech.
That's the left-wing's ingenious plan for achieving equality: double standards.
Although it is certainly unwise, uncouth, and completely tacky for a teacher to use that word, the students at the two schools I've been at use the "n-word" between every other breath, no exaggeration. And it's not always in a brotherly, home-boy manner. They also use every other pejorative to downgrade every group they can think of. If we're really concerned about the use of this word, why not write an article every day about the 1,000,000,000 times it's used at every public school in this city? And how if a teacher tries to monitor them, then they're automatically labeled a racist or some other pejorative themselves?
"See, this teacher is obviously calm and well-mannered!"
to be fair, if I were having my name tossed about the press as a racist, using hate language against kids, i'd be pretty pissed off too.
Regardless of the fact that most of the inner city kids act like animals (and this is coming from a Hispanic man), the teacher should have been more wise then to use a word that may very well make her lose her license.
In a way this sort of shows how stupid/flaw our education system is as it shows the stupidity on both the student and teacher's part.
John- posts suchs as this one always incite a fair amount of anonymous bigotry on the message boards. Just curious about how you/the staff feel about allowing people to put out hateful messages, seemingly without repercussion.
Acceptable/desirable under free speech? Inevitable so might as well be here? Worth posting the articles in the first place? Are they newsworthy (or what is your standard for posting--just clicks)?
I'm asking these questions genuinely--I don't have a preconceived notion of what the "right" answers are.
Oh Ides, you and your generalizing... it never gets old.
This "leftist" agrees that it's a double standard. Imagine that!
but WERE THEY? its not slander if its true and i don't know if any of you guys have ever been to a movie theater in a black neighborhood...
Ides is a douche. We know this.
>> "See, this teacher is obviously calm and well-mannered!"
to be fair, if I were having my name tossed about the press as a racist, using hate language against kids, i'd be pretty pissed off too. >>
Yes but it shows that he's kind of a hothead.
kids known to make up crap half hte time. they just didn't like whitey trying to give them hw.
@ pierrevonbaron: We do our best to moderate, unpublish and ban bigoted comments. You may not be aware of this because many of them are deleted from the comment thread, and others appear before we can get to them. Trying to keep up with the hate is like trying to drink from a fire hydrant, or rather trying to spit out a geyser of toxic swill. We get a huge volume of comments, so we do appreciate it when people report offensive comments, which can be done by clicking "report this." And who will be the first clever monkey to report this comment?
you've got it pierre. gothamist runs these article's PURELY for the clicks & $$$. Nothing is ever gained in these posts excepts people taking the opportunity to vent anonymously like idiots. It serves its purpose for all involved, me and you included.
"what ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?"
HAHAHHAHA!!! In the face of allegations of racism against blacks? In this town? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I bet she really said nAggers!
Go John del- quite right.
If this is to be a topic for discussion, "what is wrong with public schools", we should begin with the alleged inappropriate behavior of ADULTS, who by the way are supposed to be trained in managing the behavior of teenagers, who are often inappropriate regardless of race.
These kids, meaning all teens, listen to every manner of foul word thrown about by Hollywood and politician alike, and teachers should be able to respond without the use of foulness.
If you accept the job, don't complain, be prepared to handle all that comes with it or quit. It's like the window washer who's afraid of heights!
My mom taught in the city schools and some kid accused her of using the "n word." She never used that word (I don't think she's ever used that word) but she had a hell of a time proving her case, and nearly lost her job over it.
I hope this isn't the case for this teacher.
I'm pretty sure Ides knows the concept of a distinct group retaking a word and making it its own, but he just hopes other people don't so he can troll/feel victimized
I'm pretty sure Ides knows the concept of a distinct group retaking a word and making it its own
Actually, I don't think Ides gets it. Context does matter.
What's truly lame is when this phenomenon is used to justify the slur. "They" say it (note the generalization there) so I can.
What is it with these teachers? Can't they use words that aren't strictly from the gutter? What the hell are they teaching those little bastards?
the point that is being missed is that the N word means ignorant and uneducated so the teacher could have been correct in that statement. But if that is true then the teacher is not doing her job. As someone who's sister and stepmother are both teachers I can understand the Frustration with the unruly children. But if parents don't care or are not involved in the childrens lives you cant expect much from the board of ed.
In our guts we KNOW most black kids in predominantly black public schools DO act like N***ers..it's just TABOO to say it publicly, that's why you have all of this missplaced blame on the teachers, administrators etc. This is exactly why there will NEVER be any REAL progress on the issue, you simply can't call a "spade a spade". Signed- Rescued from Public School by Affirmative Action
She should have just called them a bunch of losers who will never make it in life and end up on the streets begging for money. That would have gone over much better.
I wouldn't be surprised if the kids made it up. My partner is a public school teacher in Brooklyn and I can't believe the stories she comes home with.
Why would any adult in their right mind use that word a public school? On the flip side, a 14 year old knows what is going to get negative attention for the teacher she may or may not like.
Educating the black child is especially problematic, the western tradition is essentially anti-black and much of it is based upon the exploitation of primitive cultures. That being said literacy, standard speech and thought as well most of the curricula of a good education are not re-inforced in home life or the general community (how many black families sit around the table and discuss literature or take their children to a museum for fun ) the black child has very little in the way of "an inner life" the "life of the mind" is limited to vulgar popular forms of entertainment.
Perhaps black kids should only be taught by black teachers.
That would be even worse, alienating them more from the mainstream.