Photo showing North Central High School lesson draws controversy [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — Written in black marker across a teacher’s white board, different variations and meanings of what many would consider a racial slur.

“Other things they bring up in the classroom setting that we may call appropriate or inappropriate, so I think, as teacher, he did what was necessary because it was in the writing. We can’t just skip over it,” said Brown.

Brown, who is 17 years old, said his class was reading “Sweat,” a short story by Zora Neale Hurston from the early 1900s. He said his English teacher had students read paragraphs aloud and then discuss certain words that may sound or have different meanings today.

“We saw words like, ‘I’ that was supposed to sound like ‘ah’ and words like ‘God’ be pronounced like, ‘gawd,'” explained Brown. 

Brown went over the day’s lesson at the dinner table with his big sister, Jamice Wilson, giving her context …