A Connecticut mother alleges that her Black son was subjected to racially offensive language from his teacher during class, and now the West Hartford School District is investigating the claims just one week into the new school year.
Che’La’Mora Hardy, the child’s mother, not only claims that the teacher’s use of the N-word deeply offended her 13-year-old son but also believes that he was unfairly singled out in front of his peers. She feels her son is no longer safe.
The incident occurred on Friday, Sept. 1, and left the young student feeling “distraught and confused.” According to the mother, her son’s teacher transitioned from reviewing the class policy on inappropriate language to using it.
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As the teacher went through the lesson, Hardy’s son said, “We don’t curse, we don’t use profanity.”
His teacher allegedly responded, “Even if you don’t curse, you guys use other types of words that you shouldn’t be using.”
When the teen asked what she meant, the teacher said the N-word. To demonstrate its use, the teacher pronounced the slur with the hard “r” and in its slang version with the short “a” sound.
“You guys say [N-word] too. And you don’t even know what that means,” the teacher is quoted as saying before explaining to the class the word meant “my slave.”
The child told his parent the teacher said teachers could use it, but students could not.
That is different from the school district’s policy on using the word.
“We have had a policy in the district, and provided training in the past, that racial slurs, charged language, and other things of this sort are never to be given voice by anyone in our schools, not by our teachers, not by our students, not by our volunteers,” Superintendent of Schools Paul…
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