Mother McAuley High School teacher Mary DeVoto was fired for using a racial slur repeatedly. She said she hopes to get her job back.
CHICAGO -- A longtime Mother McAuley High School teacher is hoping to get her job back after she was fired for using a racial slur repeatedly.
"I can't believe it fell out of my mouth," said Mary DeVoto, who taught at the Mount Greenwood all-girls Catholic school for more than four decades.While explaining why the names of some sports teams are derogatory towards Native Americans, DeVoto attempted to draw a parallel to the N-word. And she said the slur twice."If I could take it back in a heartbeat, I would," DeVoto said.
In a statement, the school said"These actions were made necessary because of a subsequent conversation with the teacher in which the same racial slur was communicated in its entirety several times despite clear and formal directives to stop. The N-word is never acceptable." DeVoto wrote a letter expressing her remorse to the Mother McAuley community. She said she wishes she was given an opportunity to apologize for her actions in front of students.
"I think it is really important that I show them I made a mistake." DeVoto said."I want to show that to them. There is power to admitting your mistakes.""After she lost her job, now she wants to apologize and make it better with the students and in my opinion that should have been done right away," Gray said
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