Current Events > White teacher won't be fired after lynch mob threat towards black student.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/12/white-teacher-who-told-black-student-he-would-lynched-not-suspended-fired/1027470001/

A white teacher who told a black student his classmates would form a mob and lynch him if he didnt focus will not be suspended or fired, according to according to the childs mother and Mason City Schools officials.

The incident happened in front of the child's class in December, according to his mother, Tanisha Agee-Bell. Mason Schools spokeswoman Tracey Carson confirmed the incident occurred in teacher Renee Thole's classroom.

Agee-Bell said her son, Nathan, didn't tell her what happened for a week because he thought he was going to be in trouble for questioning the teacher's remark.

According to Thole's investigation file, the teacher said Nathan was disrupting the class so she told him to get back to work.

I said to him, (redacted) get to work, Thole wrote. Your classmates are tired of you costing them points. When you come in tomorrow without your homework completed, you (sic) classmates are going to be angry and then become a mob who will want to lynch you.

Thole wrote that Nathan immediately called her remark racist, and she walked over and talked with him. She said she apologized to Nathan and told him she didnt mean it the way it came out."

On December 12, Nathans mother called Thole to complain, and on December 13, at the mothers request, Thole apologized to her class.

The school district investigated and determined Thole will be required to attend cultural training, according to a formal letter of reprimand placed in her personnel file on Thursday.

"This is a serious miss on her part," said district spokeswoman Tracey Carson, adding that Thole's comment is especially disturbing given the horrific national context of slavery, segregation and lynching.

"There's nothing that could be done that would ever take back those words," Carson said. "And so, the next piece is trying to really determine what is the right recourse that offers restitution for the family and also sets expectations for the staff member."

Between 1882 and the height of the civil rights movement nearly a century later, more than 3,440 African-Americans were lynched in the U.S., according to the NAACP's website.

Nathan was certainly talking too much, his mother said, when he was reprimanded. The boy is a jokester who can be heard singing just about everywhere he goes.

But the teacher's words can never be unsaid, Agee-Bell said.

Agee-Bell said Thole told her she was frustrated.

"I told her, 'Next time you're frustrated are you going to call him a n*****?'," Agee-Bell said she asked Thole.

Agee-Bell said she was not satisfied with the district's discipline.

"Thats not a clear punishment," she told The Enquirer. "Thats not satisfactory at all. I still want her out of the classroom until she gets that training."

Thole teaches social studies at Mason Middle School. She was hired in 2002, and her personnel file shows largely positive reviews and no disciplinary action.

She makes $79,383 a year, according to the Ohio treasurers office.

Mason City Schools is a large, well-performing district in Warren County, about 30 minutes north of Cincinnati.

It's a wealthy district, relatively speaking, with about 8% of students considered economically disadvantaged.

The student body is 63% white and 4% black, according to Ohio Department of Education data.

I don't think sensitivity training is an appropriate punishment towards any educator that threatens the safety of a student, let alone threatening them with lynching. You'd think an educator would be able to reach a student through other means than threatening them with violence. What an awful message.
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Thats no good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnlTHvJBeP0
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I'm surprised she wasn't fired.
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Sounds like the kid causes trouble every single day and constantly disrupts the learning of the rest of the class.

Not the correct way to handle a shitty student though
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WizardPowers posted...

Sounds like the kid causes trouble every single day and constantly disrupts the learning of the rest of the class.

Not the correct way to handle a shitty student though

You were gonna check the kids character no matter what huh? Fucking Goomba.
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I'm tired of kids thinkin they're hot shit. I hope he learned a harsh lesson that you don't want with a teacher that gives no shits.
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_OujiDoza_ posted...

WizardPowers posted...

Sounds like the kid causes trouble every single day and constantly disrupts the learning of the rest of the class.

Not the correct way to handle a shitty student though

You were gonna check the kids character no matter what huh? Fucking Goomba.

Did you want me to ignore the first part of the quote immediately before the lynch mob comment?
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A_Good_Boy posted...

I don't think sensitivity training is an appropriate punishment towards any educator that threatens the safety of a student,

You seriously think the teacher was threatening violence against this student?
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The Admiral posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

I don't think sensitivity training is an appropriate punishment towards any educator that threatens the safety of a student,

You seriously think the teacher was threatening violence against this student?

totally not surprised to see you defending the teacher

nope nuh uh
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You'd think an educator of all people would think better before making a statement like that to a black student. I don't think she should be fired for saying something dumb though. Sensitivity classes are a good enough punishment.
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The Admiral posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

I don't think sensitivity training is an appropriate punishment towards any educator that threatens the safety of a student,

You seriously think the teacher was threatening violence against this student?

Teachers shouldn't suggest violence is a possible occurrence period. That's not even getting into the racial aspect of this

It doesn't sound like it was an actually threat, so much as a metaphor for "your classmates are sick of being penalized for your bad behavior and will retaliate at some point".

But still, that is a super inappropriate thing to say to your student and a firing would be justified. That school must be really hard up for teachers if she just got a slap on the wrist like that.
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The Admiral posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

I don't think sensitivity training is an appropriate punishment towards any educator that threatens the safety of a student,

You seriously think the teacher was threatening violence against this student?

When did lynch mobs start taking people out for cake and ice cream?
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Fire her since there's a huge amount of schoolteachers

metralo posted...

The Admiral posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

I don't think sensitivity training is an appropriate punishment towards any educator that threatens the safety of a student,

You seriously think the teacher was threatening violence against this student?

totally not surprised to see you defending the teacher

nope nuh uh

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Esrac posted...

It doesn't sound like it was an actually threat, so much as a metaphor for "your classmates are sick of being penalized for your bad behavior and will retaliate at some point".

this
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Sounds like it was handled properly.

She apologized to the student, mother, and class. She took responsibility and is doing training to understand what she did and the impact it could have.

Pretty much the ideal way for it to be handled
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