The family of a biracial student has filed a complaint against a Vancouver Island teacher over repeated use of the N-word while reading aloud from a novel chosen to mark Black History Month.
The complaint was filed after the 12-year-old came home from school on Feb. 7 and told his mother and grandmother that his teacher had said the slur five times.
“He said, ‘that’s inappropriate, and that’s awful for her to say,'” the boy’s mother said. CBC has agreed not to name her to protect her children.
The Grade 6 teacher at Dunsmuir Middle School in Colwood had been reading
