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Kate Welborn, mother of the teen who was suspended for recording her teacher repeatedly using the n-word in class, spoke out to CNN to demand the school set things right.
Mary Walton, a 15-year-old Missouri teenager, was suspended from Glendale High School Friday after her video of a geometry teacher saying the uncensored n-word circulated on social media. The teacher has since resigned.
On Tuesday afternoon’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper interviewed Welborn and family attorney Natalie Hull, who each ripped the school and demanded the suspension be expunged and an apology be issued:
TAPPER: How’s she doing? Does she want to stay at the school? What’s your reaction to all this?
KATE WELBORN: Mary does get to return to school tomorrow, and she does intend to return. I think that the amount of attention that things have gotten, that was an unexpected turn for her, and I think that she would prefer things to be a little quieter, but she does intend to return, and I’m proud of her for doing that.
TAPPER: She is, I mean, something of a whistleblower. But, Natalie, I guess the school argues that phones are not allowed in classrooms, and is this just a matter of her breaking the rules? We should note that the teacher was initially put on administrative leave and then ultimately resigned. But what’s your argument, Natalie, about why Mary shouldn’t be punished, given the fact that the school says, well, she did break the rules?...
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