Parent: Gaston teacher taught first-grader racial slur

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GASTON — A parent says a Gaston County first-grade teacher at H.H. Beam Elementary school taught her child how to spell the word “gook.”Jennifer Thompson says her first-grader, 6-year-old Emily, brought the word home as part of her 10-word spelling list.”We had to explain to Emily why she could not use the word and not to use it,” Thompson said.Webster’s Dictionary defines the word as “a native belonging usually to a brown or yellow race – usually used […]

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