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A Minnesota Teacher Has Been Placed On Leave After A Viral Video Showed Her Calling Her Middle School Students The N-Word

<div>Roommates&comma; it seems like everybody is getting BOLD bold when it comes to using the n-word&comma; and a Minnesota teacher is one of the latest to let the word slip&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>According to NBC news&comma; Wendy Brilowski has reportedly been placed on leave after a video of her calling her Highland Park Middle School students &&num;8216&semi;f&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast; n&ast;&ast;&ast;s&&num;8217&semi; went viral&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>The school district verified with NBC that the video was authentic&comma; and Brilowski can be heard using the slur very clearly&period; Another staff member at the school said &&num;8220&semi;she&&num;8217&semi;s repeating what you&&num;8217&semi;re saying&&num;8221&semi; after the slur was used&comma; but it is not clear whether or not any students used the slur first&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Saint Paul Public Schools Superintendent Joe Gothard said there would be aggressive action taken&comma; and apologized to parents about foul and racist language being used in the district&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&&num;8220&semi;As educators&comma; we have to be held to a higher standard and we know that this situation represents a failure on our part&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Gothard said&period; &&num;8220&semi;And we will not fall silent in the face of racism in our schools&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Brandy Coleman&comma; the mother of one of the students&comma; told NV that the video had come amid tensions between Brilowski and her daughter&period; He daughter said that Brilowski had previously called her and other students &&num;8216&semi;negroes&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&&num;8220&semi;It breaks my hear that I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know the magnitude of the situation so that I could intervene before that video&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>As of now&comma; 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