The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: School Suspends Teacher For Using Racial Slur & Student For Recording Him

Episode Date: May 18, 2023

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Yes, Donkey of the Day for Thursday, May 18th goes to glendale high school uh in missouri uh and an unnamed teacher at glendale high school in springfield missouri see there is a 15 year old young caucasian girl named mary walton who goes to glendale high school drop on the clues bombs from mary walton okay she was in geometry class minding her business when her teacher tried to put together a geometric sequence that simply doesn't add up all right see there's this word that no matter how many times you tell people they shouldn't use it they will find a way all right doesn't matter what race the person is we all know the historical context of the word we know why the word shouldn't be used by anyone i don't care if you think it's a term of endearment or a racial slur it's a word that is divisive and

it's just too much blood and baggage on it for it to ever be positive but yet we can't keep it out of our mouths all right the word i'm referring to is the n-word all right i wanted to say it so bad but i'm trying not to i've been trying not to for years okay by the way i really haven't found a better way to describe these ninjas than the n-word matter of fact i want to apologize to all ninjas out there why do we do that to them okay why is ninjas a default for the n-word love ninjas but back to the n word this young 15 year old caucasian girl mary walton was suspended because she recorded her teacher repeatedly saying the n word yes i told you they was in geometry class and mary's teacher presented a

problem she didn't have an answer for and guess what the reason i'm not saying the teacher's name is because they didn't release it i didn't give us the teacher's name they released the young minor's name but not the teacher why i don't know but we do have audio this is the teacher presenting this problem to his geometry class let's listen i don't like the word at all but it i don't know it feels like when when a black person is using it towards another black person, it's the same... How is it not still a derogatory word? I don't know. I don't get it. I mean, I can't...

Slave owners used to call me that, so it's just like a... And is the word not allowed to... Okay. I'm gonna say it right now. As a teacher, if you want to keep your job, this isn't the foot... I'm not calling anyone i understand i can say the word it's not no i wish we didn't bleep the word i mean in that context i feel like we should use it for research purposes but i agree with the teacher that when a black person uses it towards another black person it's still a derogatory word i don't use the word in that

context like how yg used it on uh my n-word or how Snoop and C-Murdy used it on Down For My N-Words. Nah. Sadly, I use it the way the white man intended it to be used. Okay. But this teacher is foolish. Okay. If he's smart enough to say he doesn't like the word at all, then why is he using it at all? Okay.

If you can acknowledge, Mr. Teacher, that you don't like the word and the word seems derogatory no matter how you use it or who uses it then why are you using it and more importantly you heard the student a student okay one of those youngsters and that's why these youngsters give me hope for the future one of those students said to him don't say it if you want to keep your job if a student tells you that and then you still continue to use the word and then even you know after other students said uh don't say it your response is you can say it well who gave you permission to say it and how did you come to that conclusion after acknowledging that you don't like the word this is beyond confusing okay but what's even more confusing is the fact that glendale high school suspended the 15 year old girl for recording what you just heard i can't't make this up. Let's go to CNN for the report, please. Video shared on social media shows a high school teacher using the N-word at least twice in a Missouri classroom. Mary Walton, a 15-year-old student, disturbed, began filming. The teacher

was initially placed on administrative leave. A week later, that teacher has resigned, but Mary was also punished, suspended for three days over the recording. The school district says its discipline is, quote, confidential per federal law, but noted that the student handbook limits inappropriate use of electronics and considers the identification of minor students when disseminating video. The school district also prohibits, quote, recording of faculty or staff in the classroom without prior approval and recording, quote, acts of violence. Hull claims that the policy is problematic and it has a chilling effect on students like Mary looking to hold authority figures accountable. Oh, this just in, the Daily Mail report reports.

The teacher's name is Kenneth Bowling. Oh, we got a name. Kenneth Bowling is the teacher's name. Look, we're the first ones to tell kids if you see something, say something. But I guess in this case is if you see something, say something unless that's something is racism. And I understand it's rules and regulations, but you do know you're punishing this little girl for doing the right thing so let's just say the school has a no recording policy what if this teacher was you know god forbid assaulting another student or you know whether it's sexually or verbally is someone not supposed to record that you're

definitely deterring kids from keeping track of teachers uh misbehavior by suspending young mary because the next time a student sees or hears a teacher doing something wrong they're gonna mind their damn business because they don't want to get in trouble this is like that law in arizona that bans people from recording police a lot of people in arizona protested against that because it violates their first amendment rights and it keeps them from holding police accountable not that police really care that they're on camera but you understand my point look there is plenty of times when a person recording should be held accountable for example okay if somebody set up the tripod and hit record for R. Kelly, absolutely makes perfect sense to discipline them for their recordings. But when a child is being verbally abused by their teacher with racist words, it doesn't matter what the school policy is on filming.

That young lady should be treated as a hero and celebrated. OK, I don't care what the student handbook says i get that it says students are prohibited from using cell phones to make audio or visual visual recordings the faculty our staff but what school is going to give a child permission to record a teacher saying the n-word none okay so this is a perfect example of look sometimes two wrongs do make a right according to the laws of culture the teacher was wrong for using the n word. And according to the laws of the student handbook, the student was wrong for recording him. But this student was also right because dumb ass people got to be held accountable.

And if that teacher thought he had a past to use the N word, he now know he doesn't. In fact, one could argue Mary saved that teacher's life. Kenneth Bowling, because if Kenneth Bowling would have used the word, the N word around the wrong n-words it'd have been bad for him please let Remy Ma give Glendale High School and that unnamed

teacher the biggest hee-haw hee-haw hee-haw you stupid mother are you dumb you just got you just said the teacher's name Kenneth Bolin, you said the unnamed teacher. Oh, I'm sorry. Kenneth Bolin. I'm proud of you. Yes. I know, man, because it's very hard to say the N-word back to back to back. Yeah, and I'm very proud of you.

It don't roll. Like, you know, you just be wanting to say, you know. Yeah. Nah, I'm very proud of you. You didn't say the N-word one time during that whole. If he would have used their word. Do it. Just say it.

Just say it. I won't. Nope. I'm not practicing bad habits. No. No, n****s. I'm not saying it. I'm sorry. You see what you not practicing bad habits. No. No, niggas. I'm not saying it. I'm sorry.

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