Massachusetts teacher on leave over mock slave auction, using slur in class, superintendent says

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Administrators are apologizing for the incidents and the 'missteps' that followed.

A Massachusetts teacher is on leave after being reported to administrators for holding 'an impromptu mock slave auction' during a history lesson and using a slur in a fifth-grade classroom a few months later. Both incidents were reported by parents to the district on April 24, according to a letter sent by Superintendent Gregory Martineau.

’ It was later brought to the district’s attention that the ‘N-word’ does not appear in the book,' Martineau wrote. According to the letter, parents of students in the class were invited to a meeting about the incidents with the teacher and school principal but 'the next day, the educator inappropriately called out the student who had reported the educator’s use of the racial slur.

 

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