The A.W. Beattie Career Center has suspended an instructional aide for "unprofessional and unacceptable" comments about president-elect Barack Obama.
The comments were made Thursday after a 16-year-old student expressed enthusiasm about Mr. Obama's victory.
"Several of the comments attempted to describe, in a supposedly joking fashion, alleged social changes that would occur with Mr. Obama as president," said the release.
The student's mother, Mara Gilligan, said the aide told her biracial daughter that Mr. Obama was going to be shot and killed, the U.S. flag would be changed to the KFC flag, and the national anthem would be changed to "Moving On Up."
"For her to be so excited and for him to destroy some of that joy, I don't think she'll ever forget this," said Ms. Gilligan.
Another staff member also heard the comments, Ms. Gilligan said, and reported the aide to the school's administration.
The Beattie Center, which provides career and technical education to students in nine North Hills school districts, suspended the aide without pay on Friday.
The school is investigating the incident.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Two of Australia's largest bookmakers are refusing to pay out on bets that Barack Obama would win the U.S. presidential election, citing fears he could be assassinated before his inauguration, a report said Saturday. The two bookmakers, Sportsbet and Centrebet, told the Sydney Morning Herald they would not pay out on the bets until the first African-American U.S. president takes office in January. A spokesman for Centrebet told the paper it was a matter of policy. The Herald said its story was prompted by a punter who said a senior official at Sportsbet had refused to pay out on a bet citing assassination fears. Sportsbet chief executive Matt Tripp denied this was the company's main concern. "God forbid he has a stroke or gets hit by a bus," Tripp told the paper. "I love the bloke. I want to pay out on him. I think he is good for America and good for the world." Bullet-proof screens were put up on stage when Obama made his victory speech to jubilant supporters in a Chicago park. Two white supremacist skinheads were arrested in the U.S. state of Tennessee in October over plans shoot Obama, although the plot appeared unsophisticated. NBA Betting: Early Season Cellar Dwellers Thursday Night NFL Preview: Cincinnati at Pittsburgh -nAustralia bookies hold Obama payout on death fears
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 11/18/2008
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 11/18/2008
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