Racist teacher canned in Chicago

Thu11May2006

Racist teacher canned in Chicago

17:34 H | Topics: Chicago - Controversia - Education

An art teacher who allegedly erupted in racial slurs towards her students -- among them "all Mexicans are criminals" -- has been fired by the Chicago charter school where she works. U.S. press has been reporting on this in bits and pieces, but Spanish daily 20 Minutos sums it up quite well:

According to witnesses, the teacher became angry last Friday during an art class when someone stained her jacket with paint.

It was then that she said, according to the same sources, "all Mexicans are criminals" and "you were born to scrub floors".

The article points out the school was advised by its attorneys that the best thing to do was to fire the teacher. When this was announced last night at a PTA meeting the attendees burst into applause.

According to CBS2 Chicago, all teachers at the school will now have to undergo "sensitivity training".

Watch a report on this case on CBS2 Chicago's website

Via / 20 Minutos and CBS 2

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1. daniela diosdado ~ Friday, May 04 2007 | 09:45H:

damn thats wrong straight up ,im sayin this because im a mexican myself, when i read this i got happy that she got fired and it pisses me off that im in a school where the teachers tell us to ''go back to mexico because we dont belong here''and they dont do shit about it...

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