CHICAGO -- A longtime Mother McAuley High School teacher is hoping to get her job back after she was fired for using a racial slur repeatedly.
"I can't believe it fell out of my mouth," said Mary DeVoto, who taught at the Mount Greenwood all-girls Catholic school for more than four decades.While explaining why the names of some sports teams are derogatory towards Native Americans, DeVoto attempted to draw a parallel to the N-word. And she said the slur twice."If I could take it back in a heartbeat, I would," DeVoto said.
In a statement, the school said"These actions were made necessary because of a subsequent conversation with the teacher in which the same racial slur was communicated in its entirety several times despite clear and formal directives to stop. The N-word is never acceptable." DeVoto wrote a letter expressing her remorse to the Mother McAuley community. She said she wishes she was given an opportunity to apologize for her actions in front of students.
"I think it is really important that I show them I made a mistake." DeVoto said."I want to show that to them. There is power to admitting your mistakes.""After she lost her job, now she wants to apologize and make it better with the students and in my opinion that should have been done right away," Gray said
The irony is she was repeatedly being offensive trying to teach the students to not say offensive words. 🤦♀️
Let her back to work
If that word is so bad then no one should be using it, But we know that's not the case. Right!
'It's just not appropriate for any educator to say that word in class, especially as a white woman' Especially as a white woman?
The first couple times were just a warm up for this teacher. Could you imagine her apology? I am so sorry I said n*****, I will never say n***** again in class, I really never said n***** until this one day and then I could not stop.
This is beyond ridiculous! She clearly had no bad intent. Teaching her students a reality in life. People need to back off this woke culture and get a grip on reality. F**K🤬🤬🤬
SHE SHOULD HOPE THAT GOD HAS MERCY ON HER SOUL
retirement for her and her rhetoric. boo to her. slurs are not inclusive, they alienate.
Repeatedly...it didn't 'fall out of her mouth' multiple times. If it isn't in your vocabulary, it doesn't enter your mouth let alone fall out repeatedly.
I'm sure she'll have no problem being hired by one of them book-burnin' schools.
Repeatedly.
and we hope she doesn’t. wth? 🧐
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