Cherry Hill Courier-Post
MEDFORD – When a South Jersey teacher faced complaints over a classroom discussion of the N-word including the white educator’s assertion that he should be allowed to say the slur and one student s tearful reaction school officials initially thought an apology was in order.
But a series of events soon led to a long legal battle over the teacher s future at Lenape High School.
One day after the discussion, a student came forward with another concern about Joseph Archible, a 14-year English teacher at the Medford school.
The girl said Archible, whom she described as “somewhat creepy and weird,” had given her an unsolicited ticket to a poetry festival and, “out of the blue,” a personal copy of one of his favorite books, “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac.
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