A Canadian teacher is under investigation for a social media post making fun of a black child’s hair.
According to Global News Canada, the teacher posted a side-by-side picture of a child and Loc Dog from Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. A concerned Twitter user posted the picture on Twitter and tagged the school district.
Hi @PeelSchools, please be informed that a grade school teacher with your district is 1) openly mocking her students’ appearance and posting photos of them on social media 2) tagging the location of the school on her Instagram, putting them in danger. pic.twitter.com/Y3JNwz8EIf
— Fool of a Took! (@giaper) June 2, 2018
Carla Pereira, a representative from the Peel District School Board, condemned the post.
“We were made aware of an inappropriate Instagram post made by one of our staff members when it was sent to the Peel District School Board Twitter account yesterday. As the post shared is considered anti-black racism, we became concerned as this behaviour is simply unacceptable,” she said in a statement.
Pereira says the board has spoken to the person who reported the post, and they’re looking into the matter.
“We asked the individual who shared the post with us to provide us … with the name of the school so that we could follow up with the school’s superintendent of education. We received the school name quickly and provided the screen grab to the superintendent who began to investigate the matter yesterday,” she continued.
Pereira declined to identify the student or the teacher, merely calling the person an “occasional teacher.” The teacher has been “assigned at home,” meaning she cannot fill in for any more absences or contact staff or students while at home.
