A high school student has been suspended for three days after she recorded her teacher using a racial slur in class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Missouri student decided to record the incident on her phone on 9 May during her geometry class at Glendale High School in Springfield, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to NBC News, the teacher allegedly used the racial slur more than once, which is when the student, Mary Walton, decided to take a video on her phone, the teenager’s lawyer Natalie Hull said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school district has not yet publicly identified the teacher who used the N-word twice in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the video, which lasts about one minute, another student objects to the teacher’s use of the word, to which the teacher responded: “I’m not calling anyone a n*****. I can say the word.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NBC reported Springfield Public Schools as saying the teacher is no longer employed with the school system<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The student was suspended for three days, prompting the teenager’s lawyer and mother to demand that the district apologize and remove the suspension from her school record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Hull said the teenager was suspended under a policy prohibiting students from recording faculty members unless they get consent before filming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, the lawyer added: “It is absolutely impressive that the 15-year-old girl knew something was happening and stood up in the face of it and said: ‘I’m going to document this. I’m going to stand up for what’s right, no matter what. And I am going to make sure that this is brought to light’.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘She’s worried about how she’s going to be treated’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lawyer said the student was only trying to provide evidence of the “monumental wrong” she was witness to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added: “Mary was trying to provide indisputable documentation of the monumental wrong she was witnessing in class. Mary does not understand why she got punished, because she did the right thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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