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marmar

(76,991 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:41 AM Oct 2015

Iowa educator tells mixed-race kids: Blacks are too ‘stupid’ to go to school or live with whites

Two Iowa parents are calling for an educator at Bailey Park Elementary School in Grinnell to be fired for allegedly making racist comments to mixed-race children.

Geoff Burd choked up as he explained to KCCI that his daughter, Nikki, came home from school and recalled that the para-educator had said black people and white people should not be a family or go to the same school.

“It’s an unbelievable situation,” Burd said, sounding defeated. “I work very hard to protect her. I have worked her entire life to protect her.”

According to Burd’s daughter, the educator said that “black people and white people can’t be family. Black people should not go to this school. Black people should have their own school.”

The educator also confronted Burd’s son, Marquez, on the playground. ...............(more)

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/iowa-educator-tells-mixed-race-kids-blacks-are-too-stupid-to-go-to-school-or-live-with-whites/




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Iowa educator tells mixed-race kids: Blacks are too ‘stupid’ to go to school or live with whites (Original Post) marmar Oct 2015 OP
WTF? etherealtruth Oct 2015 #1
Sue for mental trauma caused by a racist asshole that should never be around a school. Rex Oct 2015 #2
Hope they sue the moron into the ground. sinkingfeeling Oct 2015 #3
What a shitty ohheckyeah Oct 2015 #4
My mother used to teach in Bartlesville, Ok leftyladyfrommo Oct 2015 #5
So called educator, you are oh so fired! nt longship Oct 2015 #6
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. Sue for mental trauma caused by a racist asshole that should never be around a school.
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 09:46 AM
Oct 2015

POS teacher needs to learn a few real world lessons, like being unemployed and having a hard time finding work due to rabid bigotry.

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
4. What a shitty
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 10:08 AM
Oct 2015

thing for a teacher (or anybody) to say, especially to a child. I hope the teacher is fired.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,816 posts)
5. My mother used to teach in Bartlesville, Ok
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 10:22 AM
Oct 2015

and most of the teachers in her school didn't think black kids could learn anything.

Course when I was in college I had to take physics and chemistry and I am just awful at both. Luckily I had a physics prof who didn't believe women could learn chemistry so he automatically just gave us C's unless we were able to get a better grade on tests all by ourselves.

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