The “N-Word” refers to, well, you know what it refers to. And like the name of the evil character in the Harry Potter novels, it’s the word that no one may speak. EVER.
Yet, that is what Novato Unified School District Board of Trustees President Ross Millerick allegedly did during a recent teleconference with school administrators.
He didn’t use it in a pejorative way, all agree, but he used it to describe what exactly was shouted by students during a San Marin High School basketball game. He was making the point to school administrators that more supervision is needed at basketball games.
Use of the fully articulated “N-Word” upset Novato district administrators so much that they then reported it to the Marin County Office of Education, which then hired a private investigator who then issued a report that said:
“Instead of referring to the epithet as ‘the N Word,’ he used the entire word to describe what was said,”
Oh, did I mention that the basketball game in which the word was uttered happened in the last century — 1998?
Looks like a lot of time was spent on all this. In the meanwhile, the Novato Unified School District is still unable to get kids back fulltime for in-person school.
If I may be so bold, something seems dreadfully out of whack here.
(Sherman R. Frederick is the publisher of the Novato Advance. You can reach him via email at shermfrederick@gmail.com.)
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