Lee's Summit R-7 holds hearing for teacher accused of using racial slur

Lee's Summit R-7 School District holds hearing for a middle school teacher who is accused of using racial slur in the presence of students.

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He was following protocol upon disciplining a student. He read back the student’s statement to confirm accuracy, not to call the student a derogatory term. Context matters and no words can ever be truly banned (or should be) from existence. Banned from using as derogatory context, yes. This shouldn’t have made it this far. The superintendent should be fired and Mr. Oswald reinstated. I hope Oswald sues the school board and the superintendent and teaches R7 a huge lesson.

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I feel like the school board and some people completely fails to realize that A) Teachers are told to write down exactly what students say and repeat it for accurate whether it’s a cuss word/racial slur or not. The only reason it was repeated twice was because the student laughed at him and asked him to repeat it. B) There is no rule or anything stating that teachers cannot repeat those words on a green slip. Teachers are supposed to repeat exactly what is said by the student. C) When he used the N-Word, it was not used in a derogatory manner. and D) Context does matter. If you put things out of context (like the school board did) it results in something dumb like this happening. The only people that didn’t stand up for him was the Administration because they don’t want to lose their jobs or lose any sort of money. And if you watched the hearing, there were plenty of colored people who were defending Oswald because context DOES matter. I understand that white people should not say the N-Word in a derogatory way but the context Joe Oswald used it in was not derogatory and he was told to write and repeat everything word for word.

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