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Just don’t. That directive bears repeating since the firing of a Catholic school teacher and the controversy over Joe Rogan’s repeated use of the N-word.
By Victor Omondi Mary DeVoto, a 41-year teaching veteran, was talking about Native American history with high school students at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School when the N-word slipped into the conversation. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, on Jan. 28, DeVoto’s World History class was discussing racist sports team names when she explained why […]
<p>As history teachers struggle with how to handle racist slurs in primary sources, an unexpected remark from a ballplayer in 1938 illustrates that this struggle isn't new. Columnist Neil Steinberg asks if making words unspeakable blows up in the faces of teachers more often than bigots.</p>