Is it 'woke' to teach kindness? With teachers' hands tied, racism flourishes in classroom.

"My daughter reports that there’s a small but growing group of students who start snickering in her high school classroom whenever their teacher mentions a Black person in a lesson – any Black person, even sometimes just the word “black.”

This crowd will routinely wield racial slurs in the hallways during passing period against their peers and teachers.

Schoolchildren have a civil right to be educated in an environment free of offensive bigotry. The school has a responsibility under the law to discipline these students to put an end to this behavior.

If I were principal, I would ... on second thought, first I would call a meeting to solicit advice from the Black faculty and staff. But, off the top of my head, it seems like you should hold an assembly as soon as possible to introduce a zero-tolerance policy for the use of slurs at school".