Black Teacher Calls Student ‘White Boy’

A Florida teacher was suspended without pay for one day last month after making inappropriate racial comments to his second-graders, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.

Sixty-year-old Billy C. Miles, who is black, reportedly told the class he didn’t want the “black people” misbehaving in public and said to the only white child in the class: “Excuse me, white boy.”

According to the child, Miles often called him “white boy” and sometimes made jokes about white people in class. A classmate said Miles sometimes told that boy to “get your white tail over here.”

The teacher provided a written statement to investigators in which he admitted addressing the children in terms of black and white but denied that his comments were racial in nature.

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