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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.
Its 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 Burds daughter, the educator said that black people and white people cant be family. Black people should not go to this school. Black people should have their own school.
The educator also confronted Burds 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/
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Racist imbeciles never fail to astound me.
Rex
(65,616 posts)POS teacher needs to learn a few real world lessons, like being unemployed and having a hard time finding work due to rabid bigotry.
sinkingfeeling
(51,280 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)thing for a teacher (or anybody) to say, especially to a child. I hope the teacher is fired.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,816 posts)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.