Parents criticize teacher for reading racial slur to kids at B.C. middle school
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A West Shore, B.C., mother says she was appalled when she heard that a teacher in her daughter's school district read a racial slur aloud in class during Black History Month.
Dominique Jacobs says she was the only Black kid in her class growing up, and that she was singled out and bullied because of it. Now she's concerned her daughter will go through the same thing.
"My fear for my daughter is racist bullying and all that trauma that comes along with that," she told CTV News on Monday.
The Sooke School District says the incident happened at Dunsmuir Middle School in Colwood, B.C., and parents have come out to both defend and criticize the teacher.
"To have a teacher, as a position of authority, standing up there making it OK for kids to say that word, guess what's going to happen on the playground?" said Jacobs.
The island mom says that online comments supporting the teacher have presented a sense of urgency.
"It's triggering and it's sickening. Like it made me physically sick," she said.
"People didn’t seem to understand any of the meaning of the context of that word and how it affects Black people and how it causes trauma to Black people."
Several parents have penned a letter to the school district urging the implementation of anti-racism education.
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