A high school teacher has been suspended for telling her students to ‘turn the n***** tunes off’ as they played a Tupac track to the class.
Teddie Butcher was teaching food and nutrition at the Hoover High School in Alabama last week where students are typically allowed to play music whilst working on projects.
She left the classroom and returned to hear the rapper’s Dear Mama song being played by one of the teenagers, which prompted her to use the racial slur.
The school’s board met on the evening of the incident last Monday and decided to place the teacher on administrative leave with pay.
Teddie Butcher (pictured) was teaching food and nutrition at the Hoover High School in Alabama last week where students are typically allowed to play music whilst working on projects
Hoover High School (pictured) is the largest high school in the state, with nearly 2,900 students in the current school year. The student body is diverse: 28 percent of students are African-American, 7 percent are Hispanic, 6 percent are Asian and 55 percent are white
Shenita Morrow’s daughter was playing the song, which the teacher thought contained profanities.
But apart from two mild drug references, there is nothing that would be considered explicit on the track.
A video of the incident was sent around Snapchat, but AL.com report an assistant principle made pupils delete the footage.
Mrs Morrow, who is an African-American, told the site: ‘After meeting with [Butcher], it’s just baffling to me how someone does not understand the severity of the weight of that word.’
The school is one of the state’s largest and the student body is made up of 28 percent African-American, seven percent Hispanic, six percent Asian and 55 percent white.
Hoover High School is the largest high school in the state, with nearly 2,900 students in the current school year. The student body is diverse: 28 percent of students are African-American, 7 percent are Hispanic, 6 percent are Asian and 55 percent are white.
The teacher left the classroom and returned to hear Tupac’s (left with Biggie Smalls) Dear Mama song being played by one of the teenagers, which prompted her to use the racial slur
Romel Williams’ daughters were allegedly both told to delete the video taken of the incident.
She told AL.com: ‘Maybe they can understand the impact of using those types of words in their classroom and how it affects their students and how it affects the climate and atmosphere of the school after something like this happens.’
The school and the Hoover Board of Education are continuing to investigate the incident.