Some parents in Florida are livid over their school district’s decision to issue only a verbal warning to a teacher who compared her student to an 
orangutan. Music teacher Lauren Orban at Rogers Garden Elementary School said the following in a conversation on Facebook with two other teachers:
“I’m fairly convinced that one of my students may be the evolutionary link between orangutans and humans,” the teacher said on the social networking site. The child to whom she was referring is not white. The comment received a few responses including one asking her to reveal to whom she was referring.
“W.W. Does that help?” she responded.
The teacher immediately deleted the thread, after another school official asked what the comment was all about–but not soon enough. The mother of the child who was the subject of the conversation learned of the thread and made a copy of the exchange.
The principal was made aware of the teacher’s comments, but only issued a verbal reprimand. The mother of the child who was compared to an orangutan criticized the Manatee County School District for not taking stronger action against the teacher.
“At minimum, the teacher should be suspended without pay,” attorney Sasha Watson said, the Bradenton Herald reported.
“We’re outraged,” Rodney Jones, a member of the Manatee County Chapter of the NAACP and father of a third-grade student at the school told the Sarasota Herald Tribune. “No student should be called something like that, especially a black student.”
The teacher has only been with the school district two years.
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Will someone please post the name, address, phone number, and/or E-Mail address of the teacher in question.
I have taught before, I am a Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Daughter, Neice, Aunt, in a Black {Multi-Racial} family and I’ve taught, mentored, & been a Behavioral Technicain for children of diverse racial/ethnic/religious/& socio-economical backgrounds and I don’t care how irritated, angry, disappointed, perplexed, or simply dubm-founded I ever was be things some of these children did or said I would NEVER have considered saying such a thing! ESPECIALLY FOR THE SAKE OF BEING RACIALLY DEMINUATIVE!!!!! There is ABSOLUTELY “NO” REASON WHATSOEVER THAT THIS APPARENTLY BIGITED PO WHITE TRASH SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TEACH ANYONES CHILDREN!!!!! Some people have NO shame or decency at ALL!!!!! This is 2012 NOT 1512!
This is an outrage and the local NAACP in that school district should not let up until justice is served by getting this piece of racist trash fired from teaching in any school district ever again.
I’m so sick and tired of our people accepting just any explanation and some insincere apology when these racist bigots spew out hateful, hurtful remarks aimed at us; not only our people (Black) but Hispanics are targeted as well, moreso than any other non white ethnic group.
To stop some of these injustices before they have a chance to develop, I propose the following:
The white person making a defamatory remark against an individual relating to the color of his skin or his national origin should be exposed and fired with no form of compensation what-so-ever due to causitory factors of their termination. That person should be publicy humiliated.
If an individual attacks or murders a person resulting from an act of hate or prejiduce; the perpetrator should suffer the same fate.
I think the laws should be changed to implement these punishments and I guarantee you that if you knew the consequences of your actions prior to you doing them,you would think twice before speaking or committing a crime.
White, racist, bigoted people get away with denegrating all races of people, especially Black people, and it is time to put a stop to it and let them know we are not having it.
Personally, I would have sought her out if it had been my child and by the time I was finished with her, she would have been the one looking like she was a part of the orangatan family or worse.
It’s time to step up and stop taking this bull c**p!!!
I agree with you, it way past the time to put a stop to it .
Baby orangutans are cute!
And the teacher will not be fired, thanks to those lovely “teacher’s unions” 
Boycott the school, or at least her class.
Do what they do in college.
No students go to her class until she is fired.
Quite frankly, I do believe the teacher was speaking about her own ancestry, parents, siblings, and offspring…. Does that help?
Put pressure on the school. Expose the problem in a legal manner. Even a few parents carrying posters telling the neighborhood that this school hires and protects teachers who look upon some of their non-White students as orangutans will cause the blame to filter down to the subject–the offending teacher. Community action will most likely force the school administrators to change their focus on the problem. What it boils down to is that administrators, like all human beings, wish to protect themselves first and then the image of the school. A trouble-making two-year teacher is an expendable nuisance.
I Wish I Could Fill Her House Full Of Orangutan While She Is Asleep And Let Them Eat Her Racist Behind Up. America Is Becoming Way To Racist. Especially Since A REAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN Became President. They Rather Have Racist Trash Like Romney In Office, Destroying African Americans.