Feb 19 - Teacher Suspended For Offensive Comment, Telling Hispanic Student To 'Go Back To Mexico'

Teacher Suspended For Offensive Comment, Telling Hispanic Student To 'Go Back To Mexico'

Looks like this two-time "Teacher of the Year" will not be in the running to win the esteemed honor this year because of her derogatory comment to a Hispanic student: "Go back to Mexico."

Instead, 63-year-old Texas math teacher Shirley Bunn is fighting to keep her job.

Bunn made the comment on Sept. 30 while distributing Title 1 forms to her eighth grade students at Barnett Junior High School. Dallas-Fort Worth's Fox 4 reports that a disruptive student requested a Spanish-language version of the form, saying, "I'm Mexican. I'm Mexican."

According to public record, Bunn attempted to tell the student that he could retrieve forms translated into Spanish from the main office, but the student continued to repeat "I'm Mexican."

Bunn quickly responded, "[Then] go back to Mexico."

The school board placed Bunn on paid leave following the incident, until an Independent Hearing Examiner could review the case.

Late Wednesday, the examiner, Jess Rickman III, recommended that the school board allow Bunn to return to her post. In his 23-page opinion, Rickman determined that the district did not provide sufficient grounds for termination.

"Under the circumstances when taken in the context of the moment and the lack of intent for 'Go back to Mexico' to be a racially or nationality-based pejorative remark, I find it was not a remark of an egregious nature," Rickman said, Fox 4 reports.

Since Rickman's opinion is just a recommendation, the school board could still reject it and permanently terminate Bunn, who has taught at Barnett since 1999.

"It was almost instantaneous. I thought, 'God, I don't believe that came out of my mouth,'" Bunn told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

"It was a very, very hard week, the end of six weeks. It was late in the day. It was a Friday. We were on the third day of the first curriculum[..]essment and I knew it wasn't going well. It was just an extremely bad day," Bunn said.

The school board is expected to decide Bunn’s fate before next month.

02-19-2012, 06:36 PM

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02-19-2012, 06:38 PM

[pic] it's Texas though we know the bidness [pic]

02-19-2012, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by portis187

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02-19-2012, 07:47 PM

I know its wrong but if i was in the class I would have died laughing but she done

02-19-2012, 10:13 PM

I don't see anything wrong! Kid was being a lil prick! Mofo took it outta context.
Now if it was a dif situation where the teach was racially bullying then yea fire her!.
she shouldn't apoligize!! Send the mother!!er to Mexico for being ignorant.

02-19-2012, 10:15 PM

honestly if that's how the conversation went I don't see what she did wrong. Doesn't seem racist she was obviously not being serious.

02-20-2012, 04:35 AM

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She must of watched Katt Williams [pic]

I see nothing wrong

Also, if that kid was born here he's retarded. you're american not mexican dumbass.

02-20-2012, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by April Moon

Don't see the problem [pic]

This is just another case of non-racism being blown way out of proportion... This crap is in the !!ing news for !!s sake. Jesus Christ you've got to be kidding...

Yeah that's what it seems like

02-20-2012, 08:08 AM

I stand behind her 100%. This little[..] clown. If u need it in spanish, and u are a mexican, go to a mexican school, duh!

She lucky she has so many years of good service to the school system. This coulda really !!ed her over for nothing. I woulda just ignored the lil nicca tho.

I am from the hood and refuse to learn the english language, I need this test in ebonics please.

08:36 PM

Happened at my school last year in the same district.....but hispanics are the majority. Hell my kids throw all that !! in the trash anyway.

02-20-2012, 09:29 AM

its america so [pic]

02-20-2012, 11:40 AM

The kid was definitely being an[..].

Had he been smart about it and clever then he should of told her:
"I'll go back to Mexico when all white people go back to Europe"

02-20-2012, 11:45 AM

Well if your[..] doesn't have the patience to deal with unruly children don't be a teacher. Plain and simple. People on here talking about they see nothing wrong with this, I see EVERYTHING wrong with this. A teacher should know better than to say something that can be construed as prejudice and/or discriminatory.

"It was almost instantaneous. I thought, 'God, I don't believe that came out of my mouth,'" Bunn told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Hold something in long enough and it'll eventually come to light. That's not the type of thing one just blurts out in the heat of the moment, that's the type of thing that's been boiling over time. That's the kind of comment that you've thought about before.

I bet if it was some Nigerian kid and she said go back to Africa EVERYBODY would be up in arms about it. Wrong is wrong, you don't say !! like that to kids, or anyone for that matter.

02-20-2012, 12:06 PM

she 63 !! the dumb !! negotiate to retire and get your pension and tutor part time
problem solved

01:18 PM

Originally Posted by Magic City

Well if your[..] doesn't have the patience to deal with unruly children don't be a teacher. Plain and simple. People on here talking about they see nothing wrong with this, I see EVERYTHING wrong with this. A teacher should know better than to say something that can be construed as prejudice and/or discriminatory.

Hold something in long enough and it'll eventually come to light. That's not the type of thing one just blurts out in the heat of the moment, that's the type of thing that's been boiling over time. That's the kind of comment that you've thought about before.

I bet if it was some Nigerian kid and she said go back to Africa EVERYBODY would be up in arms about it. Wrong is wrong, you don't say !! like that to kids, or anyone for that matter.

Man shut the !! up. If the kid was saying I'm African I'm African yea she would have said go back to Africa. If I said I'm Italian I'm Italian she would have said go back to Italy.

You're the type of person who makes this !! an issue to begin with because you're too racially paranoid.

Yea a teacher should be able to deal with that !!. But being a teacher of the year and having so many years working there, she obviously a good teacher. That little cholo just knew how to get to her.

02-20-2012, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by F.White

I know its wrong but if i was in the class I would have died laughing but she done

maaaan me too bruh I would've been so weak.

02-20-2012, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Magic City

Well if your[..] doesn't have the patience to deal with unruly children don't be a teacher. Plain and simple. People on here talking about they see nothing wrong with this, I see EVERYTHING wrong with this. A teacher should know better than to say something that can be construed as prejudice and/or discriminatory.

Hold something in long enough and it'll eventually come to light. That's not the type of thing one just blurts out in the heat of the moment, that's the type of thing that's been boiling over time. That's the kind of comment that you've thought about before.

I bet if it was some Nigerian kid and she said go back to Africa EVERYBODY would be up in arms about it. Wrong is wrong, you don't say !! like that to kids, or anyone for that matter.

maaan take yo[..] back to mexico bruh.

02-20-2012, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by ItAlY2BkLyN

Man shut the !! up. If the kid was saying I'm African I'm African yea she would have said go back to Africa. If I said I'm Italian I'm Italian she would have said go back to Italy.

You're the type of person who makes this !! an issue to begin with because you're too racially paranoid.

Yea a teacher should be able to deal with that !!. But being a teacher of the year and having so many years working there, she obviously a good teacher. That little cholo just knew how to get to her.

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02-20-2012, 04:46 PM

kid was being a !! head he deserved it

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