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‘Ghetto Award’ Lands Texas Teachers in Hot Water
The mother of a child at a middle school in Sulphur Springs, Texas is not laughing about the award.
FOX 4 NEWS SCREENSHOT
Teachers at a Sulphur Springs, Texas middle school are under fire after handing out “Ghetto Awards” to an eighth-grade special education class, according to Fox 4 News.
Jerrika Wilkins sparked controversy after posting a photo of the certificate on Facebook, explaining that it was part of the “8th Annual Ghetto Classroom Awards,” given to her eighth-grade son at Sulphur Springs Middle School for saying “Huh?” a lot in class, the report says.
Wilkins told Fox News that her son was “pretty hurt” by the award. “He feels pretty inferior,” she said. “You know, he want to succeed. You know, it just kind of hurt his feelings.”
The school’s principal called an emergency meeting where Wilkins says that one of the teachers, Tim Couch, who also serves as pastor at the Cross Branch Cowboy Church in Sumner, Texas apologized. The other teacher, Stephanie Garner, offered to resign, but the family said they didn't want that, Fox writes. The district also issued an apology to the family.
The family says they were told the awards went out to all the kids in the classroom as a joke, and was not meant as a racial slur.
“Ghetto was not supposed to be a malicious intent to degrade him,” said Wilkins. “It was supposed to be all in fun. I didn't take it that way.”
“Ghetto was not supposed to be a malicious intent to degrade him,” said Wilkins. “It was supposed to be all in fun. I didn't take it that way.”
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