NY middle school teacher fired over 'racist' joke allegedly made to two students about slavery

NY middle school teacher fired over 'racist' joke allegedly made to two students about slavery

Outrage from the mother of an eighth-grade student at a New York middle school has led to a teacher being fired over a "racist" joke he made about slavery.Dorothy Hall went to the media and demanded action be taken against the teacher from Gaskill Preparatory School, a public middle school in Niagara Falls, New York. She said her son is scared of returning to school out of fear of retaliation.'Invoking the suffering of enslaved people to enterta…