Class nickname

[LibraryLady2]

I find it hard to believe she had no idea this was a derogatory nickname.


http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/hurst-euless-bedford_news/article99105297.html

[grouchy]

I wonder if she is a very young woman?

[Sangersteve]

Donna asked me what it meant

[Red Oak]

I guess the teacher never was party to the good hair vs. bad hair controversy ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zF3hUioqw4

[BigTex]

Political correctness helps us be ignorant of our history. The same thing will happen someday with the Confederate flag because somebody didn't know what it was.

[GFB]

Donna asked me what it meant

I just asked my wife..she never heard it either.

Not everyone had racism in their family/friends when growing up...and therefore never heard a lot of these types of words.

[crocmommy]

I'd never heard that the STUDENTS picked the name. Are any of them in trouble too?

The way I heard it was that the parent who saw this took a picture and went straight to the media with it. This could have been handled privately with the sign taken down with the students who picked the name and the teacher who went along with it being talked to. Should have never gotten this public.

[crocmommy]

Donna asked me what it meant

I just asked my wife..she never heard it either.

Not everyone had racism in their family/friends when growing up...and therefore never heard a lot of these types of words.

I immediately knew it was not a good word. Not sure when and how I learned it. Teachers should know to look up a word like that before they let the students run with it.

[BigTex]

Political correctness requires that you make the public aware of how much you have been offended.

[Red Oak]

At least one Guberment school teacher must not know how to do the simplest websearch.

[GRANDPA]

I've not heard that word in a coon's age.

[grouchy]

I've not heard that word in a coon's age.

Shame on you.

[crocmommy]

I've not heard that word in a coon's age.

Shame on you.

[LibraryLady2]

That term was never used by my family, and I don't know exactly who used it, but I know/knew it was a bad term.

My oldest brother had a job that required he live in deep east Texas--maybe that is where I heard it.
I really don't know.

"coon's age" --my family never used that term either.
If I heard the term, I took it to mean an old animal........I was almost 30 before I learned that others were using it for a racial slur.

Regarding that teacher...if she really had never heard the term, she should have used our friend "google" to find out---even if students DID suggest the name. I'll bet she was "played" by some 5th graders who snickered all the way home.

BTW, I shared this with my son who replied "At least she didn't select ____" and gave a term I had to look up in the urban dictionary.

[crocmommy]

That term was never used by my family, and I don't know exactly who used it, but I know/knew it was a bad term.

My oldest brother had a job that required he live in deep east Texas--maybe that is where I heard it.
I really don't know.

"coon's age" --my family never used that term either.
If I heard the term, I took it to mean an old animal........I was almost 30 before I learned that others were using it for a racial slur.

Regarding that teacher...if she really had never heard the term, she should have used our friend "google" to find out---even if students DID suggest the name. I'll bet she was "played" by some 5th graders who snickered all the way home.

BTW, I shared this with my son who replied "At least she didn't select ____" and gave a term I had to look up in the urban dictionary.

Cmon tell us...

[Red Oak]

Cracker ?

[Cowman52]

You didn't grow up in a certain centeral Texas area. The S volume of the encyclopedia couldn't hold all of the words.

[LibraryLady2]

Cracker ?

I learned cracker when we lived in SC.

[LibraryLady2]

Crockmommy
It was moon cricket.
I never heard of that in my life. So I went over to urban dictionary and looked it up.

So, then my son further educated me and directed me to the dictionary of slurs. (who knew?)

Did you know there is a racial slur database?
http://Www.rsdb.org/slur/

[grouchy]

Crockmommy
It was moon cricket.
I never heard of that in my life. So I went over to urban dictionary and looked it up.

So, then my son further educated me and directed me to the dictionary of slurs. (who knew?)

Did you know there is a racial slur database?
http://Www.rsdb.org/slur/

I had never heard the term.