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SamuelB (75 posts)

Fired for word: 'Negro' in Spanish class


 
By David Clark Scott | Christian Science Monitor – Sat, May 25, 2013

Fired for word 'negro'? A Bronx teacher has filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired for using the word 'negro' in class. 'Negro' is the Spanish word for the color black.

One of the first lessons one learns in English class is that context is everything. The same holds true in Spanish.

Take the case of Petrona Smith. She says in a lawsuit that she was fired from teaching at Bronx PS 211 in March 2012 after a seventh-grader reported that she'd used the "N" word, according to The New York Post.

Smith doesn't deny using the word. But she argues that everyone uses it, when speaking Spanish.

She was teaching the Spanish words for different colors, and the color "black" in Spanish is "negro." She also taught the junior high school students, in this bilingual school, that the Spanish term for black people is "moreno." And by the way, Smith, who is from the West Indies, is black.


Read more:
http://news.yahoo.com/fired-word-negro-spanish-class-135016980.html

How stupid can you be? Firing a teacher for teaching a word in Spanish?

Cooley Hurd (20,921 posts)
2. Context is everything...

Did she point to an African-American student and exclaim "NEGRO"? If so, she should be fired for being stupid and insensitive.

Would a teacher be fired for pointing at a white kid and exclaiming "BLANCO"?

Is it not an insult to whites?

Is it OK to insult whites?

Is it an insult to be black?

Warpy (69,602 posts)
5. The whole world is upside down

and the stupidest have been put in charge of the intelligent.

Nothing good can come from this.

hobbit709 (26,393 posts)
6. Gawd forbid it was a geography class talking about Latin American rivers.

Squinch (3,238 posts)
9. A story about schools from the NY Post. I guarantee the actual story is something different than

what was reported.

Don't know what the real story was. Just know that it wasn't whatever the Post reported.

uppityperson (74,751 posts)
10. Doing a search all I find is rw and "christian" links. I'd like to see a reputable source before

getting upset. Thanks.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023022574

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Warpy (69,602 posts)
5. The whole world is upside down

and the stupidest have been put in charge of the intelligent.

Nothing good can come from this.

Reeeea-lly......

Now, why would that be?  

Who runs the indoctrina- errrr educational system?

Hint:  It's not George Bush.

uppityperson (74,751 posts)
10. Doing a search all I find is rw and "christian" links. I'd like to see a reputable source before

getting upset. Thanks

Yahoo News?  Right Wing??!?!!

 

[Big Don]

Cooley Hurd (20,921 posts)
2. Context is everything...

Did she point to an African-American student and exclaim "NEGRO"? If so, she should be fired for being stupid and insensitive.

The stupid is too strong with this one. From the OP:

And by the way, Smith, who is from the West Indies, is black.

[Mr Mannn]

I remember at work, we were told not to use the word, Buckslip. "Buck" was slang for a male slave, and thus offensive. I wondered if buckslip referred to a slave stepping on a banana peel.

Ya know anyone offended by the word "buck," must writhe on the floor in agony whenever the old TV show Buck Rogers come on.
Twicky: "Hey Buck! Bee Dee, Bee Dee!"

[jukin]

Yo tengo un gran coche negro.