Lakeshore Schools Rescinds Disciplinary Action Against English Teacher Christine Schroeder For Perceived Racist Vocabulary Quiz: In a nod to the power of community and social media, Lakeshore Public Schools in Stevensville, Mich. has rescinded disciplinary action against an Advanced Placement English teacher for a controversial question she wrote on a vocabulary quiz.
Christine Schroeder, a teacher at Lakeshore High School, was suspended for four days, WSJM reports, and had agreed to attend a racial sensitivity workshop after giving students a quiz with a fill-in-the-blank question asking for a word that describes neighboring Benton Harbor -- a poor, mostly black town. The answer Schroeder was looking for was "sordid," which means dirty, filthy or squalid.
