Parent: White Teacher calls Black students nigger and stupid on first day of school

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The Ascension Parish School System is investigating a Donaldsonville, LA middle school teacher for allegedly making inappropriate comments to her class on the first day of school.

Lois Polite, a Social Studies teacher at Lowery Middle School, is accused of using racial slurs and her status with the school system to threaten students.

At least one parent, Shemika Landry, has filed a formal complaint.

"My son came home very upset," Landry said.

Landry said her son told her his sixth grade Social Studies teacher, Polite, talked down to the class and repeatedly used racial slurs to address her students.

"She frequently called the kids the "N" word in the classroom, belittling them, calling them stupid," Landry said.

Landry said she believes Polite also threatened the students to keep them from talking.

"She told them they can call their maw and sent them to the school with their booty shorts on and their high heels but it wasn't going to change anything because she was the only social studies teacher there and they needed her," Landry said.

"I was shocked. I was appalled that she would actually say those things to ten and 11 year old kids," Landry said.

Spokesman for the Ascension Parish School System, Johnnie Balfantz, said school administrators are looking into the allegations.