Parents Outraged After Anti-Gay Slur Used Against Special Needs Son
KFSM. “I didn’t have an answer for my son.”Their son said he had been wrestling and roughhousing with another boy, and that the teacher had encouraged the other student to use the slur against him.The Stepps had more questions about the incident, so they went to the Talihina Elementary School principal, the superintendent, and the teacher for answers.Amber Stepp says she recorded a phone conversation with the teacher in question, playing the recording for KFSM.In the recording, the teacher is heard saying, “Two of the boys were wrestling with each other, and one of them started yelling, saying, ‘He’s touching me, he’s touching me,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, when he does that, yell “f** alert.”‘”The Stepps say they were shocked by the teacher’s behavior.“I never expected it to happen to anyone, let alone my own child,” Jonathon Stepp said.