Teacher goes on racist rant, not realizing Zoom was on
Oops. Is this a form of Toobin?Katura Stokes' son, a sixth grade student at Desert Willow Fine Arts, Science and Technology Magnet Academy in Palmdale, about 50 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, was having difficulty accessing the school's online platform for remote learning, according to the claim, a precursor to a lawsuit in California.
Stokes set up a meeting with her son's science teacher, Kimberly Newman, to address his struggles with online learning, the claim says.
On Jan. 20, after the parent-teacher meeting on Zoom, Newman — who is white — did not end the meeting for all attendees and instead left her microphone and her camera turned on, according to the claim.
Newman then seemed to make made racist remarks, unaware that she could still be heard on Zoom, and Stokes began recording the call on video.