Two New Jersey gym teachers fired for calling students ‘Negroes’
The New Jersey teachers were overhead by students using racially charged language in a locker room at Mount Olive High School last March.
Comments (83)By Philip Caulfield / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, October 17, 2013, 7:27 PM
Two gym teachers at Mount Olive High School in New Jersey have been fired after they were overheard referring to black students as 'Negroes' while grousing to one another in a locker room.
Two gym teachers in northern New Jersey have been fired for calling black students "Negroes" while carping to each other in a locker room, a state commissioner said.
Brigitte Geiger and Sharon Jones, who taught for around three decades, were canned and had their tenure revoked after an investigation found they made racially charged comments about black students at Mount Olive High on March 2, 2012, NJ.com reported.
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Two students who overheard the pair told school officials Jones was grousing to Geiger in a locker room when she said, "Yea, those Negroes think they are tough (expletive)," NJ.com reported.
"Yeah, that's all they are, just a bunch of Negroes, Negroes, Negroes," Geiger replied.
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Office of Administrative Law Judge Tiffany Williams, who handled the case, said both teachers admitted they'd been frustrated with a group of black students in the past.
Geiger, who also coached field hockey, and Jones were placed on limited administrative duty after charges were filed in March.
They didn't return to school this year and were officially fired on Oct. 8.
"It's unfortunate that it occurred," school superintendent Larrie Reynolds told NJ.com.
"This was an unfortunate incident and we had to do what we thought was right."
Brigitte Geiger and Sharon Jones, who taught for around three decades, were canned and had their tenure revoked after an investigation found they made racially charged comments about black students at Mount Olive High on March 2, 2012, NJ.com reported.
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Two students who overheard the pair told school officials Jones was grousing to Geiger in a locker room when she said, "Yea, those Negroes think they are tough (expletive)," NJ.com reported.
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Office of Administrative Law Judge Tiffany Williams, who handled the case, said both teachers admitted they'd been frustrated with a group of black students in the past.
Geiger, who also coached field hockey, and Jones were placed on limited administrative duty after charges were filed in March.
They didn't return to school this year and were officially fired on Oct. 8.
"It's unfortunate that it occurred," school superintendent Larrie Reynolds told NJ.com.
"This was an unfortunate incident and we had to do what we thought was right."
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