[color="Sienna"]Texas Teacher Fighting for Job After Telling Student ‘Go Back to Mexico’

Shirley Bunn

A Texas teacher is fighting to keep her job after she told a student “Go back to Mexico.”

Shirley Bunn, a math teacher at Barnett Junior High School in Arlington, Texas, acknowledged she lost her temper on Sept. 30 while handing forms out to students in her class, Dallas-Fort Worth’s Fox 4 reported. According to public records, a disruptive student was repeatedly requesting a form printed in Spanish by saying, “I’m Mexican. I’m Mexican.” Bunn, a two-time “Teacher of the Year” with 24 years of teaching experience, attempted to tell the student he could get the form in the office but he continued to repeat, “I’m Mexican.” “[Then] go back to Mexico,” Bunn shot back

She was immediately placed on paid leave the day of the incident and is still waiting for the school board to rule next month on whether she should be reinstated. An independent hearing examiner said Wednesday he believes she should return to her job.

Examiner Jess Rickman III said in a 32-page opinion to the board that Bunn, who has taught at Barnett since 1999, has had “superlative” performance reviews and her remarks “do not rise to [a] level of good cause” to fire her, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

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