A team with Your Hometown Stations spoke with Heather Howard, the mother of 13-year-old Aiden Howard, who she said was called a derogatory phrase by his art teacher months ago.
She teamed up with the local chapter of the NAACP because she believes more has to be done about it.
Heather Howard believes her Caucasian son was called a “ghetto n- word” because of the ethnicity of the other kids he's friends with.
“To me I feel like and my son he was basically saying that to Aiden because he didn’t like the fact that the majority of his friends were black,” said Howard.
Despite Howard's claims, Lima City Schools did acknowledge the teacher said an inappropriate word and later apologized.
The upset mother has since filed a police report and has requested to meet with the teacher but said it never happened and she doesn't believe the teacher was held accountable.
Howard wants the teacher fired and believes he owes her son and the students an apology.
“You can’t have a teacher in the classroom who is racist,” she said. “You can’t. That is not going to work. Had my son called a group of African American kids that, my son being a white student, he would have been expelled from school.”
Reverend Ron Fails, the Lima NAACP President, says the incident violates the Ohio Department of Education code of ethics and the matter needs to be addressed.
“There must be accountability at the local level so teachers are not doing what they want to do only to have no consequences based on what they do,” said Fails.
The school resource officer conducted an investigation and found the allegations to be unsubstantiated.
