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   San Bernardino >> A Cajon High School math teacher used a racist   
   slur while referring to black students in her class, according   
   to a student’s family.   
      
   San Bernardino City Unified School District officials later   
   acknowledged that a Cajon High teacher used “inappropriate   
   language” in class and that “disciplinary action” was taken.   
      
   LaRue Bell, a senior at Cajon High, was in Bernadette Yuson’s   
   seventh-period math class on Sept. 3, when he said Yuson began   
   rearranging student seating.   
      
   “‘How come you’re moving all the black people around?’” Bell   
   said he asked.   
      
   “Because I want to move all the n-----,” Yuson allegedly said,   
   to the reported shock of the class.   
      
   Bell leapt to his feet to report the incident to the school   
   administration.   
      
   “‘Go ahead and tell them,’” he said Yuson told him. “‘I’ve got a   
   lawyer and pay him every month.’”   
      
   According to Bell’s family, he initially received a lukewarm   
   reaction from the administration. A staff member advised him to   
   ignore racist teachers, focus on his grades and upcoming   
   graduation. An administrator called Bell’s mother, Vanessa   
   Murray, to report that Bell had left class, but not what had   
   prompted him to do so.   
      
   The day after the incident, on Sept. 4, an administrator called   
   Bell in to investigate the complaint and, according to Bell,   
   talked to other students from the class and verified his story.   
      
   Murray said the administrator told her, “‘She doesn’t mean any   
   harm. I’ll get her to apologize.’”   
      
   At Bell’s request, the administrator gave him a new class   
   schedule with a different math teacher.   
      
   Although school districts typically don’t comment on individual   
   staff members’ disciplinary issues, citing privacy concerns, San   
   Bernardino City Unified officials acknowledge that a Cajon High   
   teacher did step over the line.   
      
   “On Sept. 3, we became aware of a complaint about inappropriate   
   language used during class by a Cajon High teacher,” district   
   spokeswoman Linda Bardere wrote in an email Friday afternoon.   
   “We launched a fair and deliberate investigation regarding the   
   matter and we took quick and decisive disciplinary action once   
   all of the facts were in.”   
      
   The unnamed Cajon High teacher violated school board policy   
   4200b, according to Bardere, which states “all certificated   
   employees shall not use abusive or obscene language in the   
   presence of students and/or parents. This shall include   
   derogatory, racial or ethnic remarks.”   
      
   (“Certificated employees” are those with a teaching   
   certification.)   
      
   “We regret that in this instance board policy was not followed   
   and we apologize for the teacher’s unacceptable choice of   
   words,” Bardere wrote. “We can assure the public that the   
   district took the student’s complaint seriously and at no time   
   did any district employee minimize the gravity of the impact of   
   the teacher’s words.”   
      
   That’s not good enough for Murray: “I want her fired. I want her   
   fired.”   
      
   And what Yuson hasn’t done, Bell said, is acknowledge that she   
   did anything wrong.   
      
   “She didn’t even apologize,” he said. “She didn’t say sorry this   
   had happened.”   
      
   Cajon High School’s 2,782-member student body was 16 percent   
   black during the 2013-14 school year, according to the   
   California Department of Education.   
      
   Yuson could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.   
      
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