In September, the Federal District Court for northern Illinois reversed a school board decision to fire a teacher because he taught his class about the N-word. The facts of this case are very interesting. Sixth grade English grammar teacher, Lincoln Brown, noticed a note that the students were passing among themselves during his class. He intercepted the note, which had written words to a rap song on it. The song contained offensive terms, including the N-word. Mr. Brown discussed how he refrained from listening to music that was degrading towards women or used racially offensive or other inappropriate language. Moving off his planned teaching plan for the class, Mr. Brown then discussed...
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