A picture posted on social media shows white teachers from the Christian School District standing in a formation using letters to spell out the word "coons"
What was supposed to be a fun game of human Scrabble ended with five white Missouri educators holding a racial slur in a photo that was posted to social media. It has caused parents and the St. Charles branch of the NAACP to call for change, KSDK5 reported.
Faculty and staff at the school insist the word wasn’t racially motivated, but parents aren’t buying it. Pastor Raymond Horry who has two sons that attend the Christian School District private school in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon described the explanation he’d been given.
“They were playing around and they were trying to spell raccoon, but they didn’t have the ‘r’ and the ‘a,’” Horry said. “I don’t believe it that five Caucasian teachers, not one of them knew that. Now maybe one didn’t know it, maybe two didn’t know it, but all five didn’t know it?”
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