[mn_mom4more]

We are CC and our kids are AA. Yesterday a 5th grade girl turned around, on the bus ride home, and asked my 3rd grade dd if she is a "N*gger"! My dd looked at her strange and said, "NO!"

Our kids are the only AA kids in the school. Feb. was Black History Month. I know that in every grade they learned about Black history on one level or another. I'm sure that word came up in either the stories they read, or the movies they watched.

If the "N" word came up during this process, why didn't the teachers TEACH the kids how incredibly wrong and horrible that word is?

What really blows my mind is on the way to school, yesterday, a 5th grade boy (CC), sitting with my dd, used that word! She doesn't think he was calling HER it, but he was fighting with a girl (CC) and used the word then. Why?

I told her about that word before she started Kindergarten. I know I should have brought it up again, but I just never did. She had never heard the word, except that once from me, until yesterday, then she heard it TWICE!

I'm not happy about this at all! I plan to contact the parents (send a letter home with each of those kids - different families), talk to the bus drivers, talk to the schools (those 2 kids go to 2 different schools), and talk to the director of the bus garage.

Any advice, thoughts, word choice suggestions? I wasn't sure where to post this topic, so I hope it is noticed!

Thanks in advance for any input!!