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Slovak nursery school teacher refers to child's mother as a "gypsy", then mistakenly sends her the message online

19 April 2019
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“I wrote to the gypsy that her little one will not get lunch today,” reads a message written by a teacher at a nursery school in Bratislava’s Vrakuna municipal department, referring to the mother of one the children enrolled there. She mistakenly sent the message online directly to the mother herself.

That was not the only error the teacher committed – the lunches she was describing in the message as not having been paid for actually already had been paid upfront. “Madame Teacher was wrong, and she sent that message to me by mistake where she was writing about me – apparently I’m a ‘gypsy’. Is this how a teacher is meant to communicate? I believe each mother here has a name of her own, whether she’s a ‘gypsy’, a peasant, Chinese or Mongolian,” the mother told tvnoviny.sk.

The mayor of the municipal department, JUDr. Ing. Martin Kuruc, apologized in a comment on social media. “As the establisher of the nursery school I want to apologize for this crass behavior on the part of our teacher. I categorically reject any displays of racial hatred. I immediately began to take action, I contacted the head of our education department by telephone and the principal of the nursery school. All involved naturally regret this,” he posted.

Kuruc also said the principal had apologized to the mother and the teacher had been summoned to discuss the incident. Legal action will be taken.

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