Teacher Under Fire For Sending Home Spelling List With 'N-Word' On It

We're starting to think that these teachers know exactly what they're doing and they're just out there trolling our babies!

Case in point: A Florida teacher is under fire for sending home a spelling list to her first grade students with the n-word on it. 

YES, THE N-WORD ON IT!!!!

Apparently, the word should have been “bigger" instead of "n***er." The teacher claims the mix-up happened because the “B” and “N” keys are right next to each other on her computer. Let her tell it, this was an “innocent” mix-up.

But one parent isn't trying to hear that noise: SHE IS PISSED!!! “That bothered me. I was very offended by it,” parent Terry Day told WESH 2 Investigates.

“In today’s society, it’s very prevalent. Racism! It’s very prevalent.” She claims that her daughter Rosa came home from Hamilton Elementary with the spelling list, but was confused as to why that word would be on any type of school assignment.

“My daughter said to me, she said, ‘I know that word and I know what that word means, but is this supposed to be on my paper?'” Day said.

Day went to the school to speak with the teacher about what happened. 

“I said, ‘Well, you didn’t spell-check your word? You didn’t proofread your word before you sent that out?’ And (the teacher) said, ‘It is a word.’ And I didn’t like the attitude behind that one,'” Day said.

What really got Day going was the note the teacher sent home telling parents to disregard the list because there was a misspelling. But NEVER did she make mention that it included a racial slur.

She wrote, “Dear Parents: Please be advised there was a misspelled word on the blue spelling list I sent home yesterday. Please throw the blue list away and refer to this list for the next six weeks. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact me if you have any concerns.”

REALLY? THAT'S IT???

“‘Inconvenience’ means sorry for the bother. So, I mean, it was not apologetic, it was not ‘sorry.’ Even when I met with her in person, she wasn’t sorry, wasn’t apologetic, like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so sorry. I would have removed this.’ No! It wasn’t like that,” Day stressed.

But here's where it gets even more interesting: Day doesn’t want for the teacher, who has been employed by the school district for 16 years, to be fired. She just wants a real apology.

Meanwhile, the school will most likely not punish the teacher for this incident.

“The district is aware of the unintentional and unfortunate mistake regarding the typo on the spelling words worksheet. The teacher involved has taught at Hamilton Elementary for many years and is extremely remorseful about the situation,” a school spokesman, Michael Lawrence wrote in a statement for WESH.

Just a mess.