Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
So fourth-grade NYC teacher Gail Kaplan sees a picture of a gorilla on a kids folder and says "You took a picture of your family and put it on the front of your folder."
Told the girl not to tell her parents about the "joke," so she knew it was wrong.
And when called in to a "conference," apologizes thusly:
"I always joke that way with my husband and family"
Always calls her family gorillas?
"If I had known it was [the girl], I wouldn't have said it."
If she has known WHAT was the girl? She knew WHO she was talking to.
Fire the bitch.
Being fired would be the least of her worries if that were my child.
Heard that. Lucky for her, it is not my child and I am a committed pacifist. But the bitch would be fired.
My father always said that a picture of a monkey was a picture of me. There is a good chance that she didn't mean anything racial by it when she said it, and then realized after the fact that it could be construed that way. That would explain why she decided to say not to tell anyone after the fact. (I'm not saying that she didn't mean it that way, but it certainly could have been an innocent comment.)
My father's other favorite little-kid game is to call horses cows and cows horses, and then argue about it (usually when passing a herd.)