Security Guard Fired For Asking Student To Stop Calling Him N-word.

A former Wisconsin high school security guard assistant claims he was fired for asking a student to stop calling him the N-word.

The Madison School District has a policy forbidding employees from saying racial slurs. But, Marlon Anderson, 48, says he was just trying to defend himself after a disruptive student unleashed a number of obscenities on him, including that slur.

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Anderson is filing a grievance following his termination, saying that the Madison Metropolitan School District should consider the context in which he used the slur.
Anderson worked at the district for 11 years – the last three years as a security guard at West High.
He said a student who was refusing to leave the school pushed the assistant principal, so he felt it was his job to help. That’s when Anderson said the student began calling him names using expletives, including the N-word at least 15 times.
"I made a conscious decision to address the word because it is an epidemic,” Anderson said. “Our kids use it every day."
Anderson knows the power of words to lift students up.
“I always say things like, 'You’re the best,' 'You’re the greatest,' 'You this and you that,' 'You can conquer the world,'” he said. “That’s part of my passion. I love kids.”
When Anderson used the word that got him fired, he was hoping to get the student calling him the N-word to stop.
"You have no tolerance for a word, but yet you let students call me that word 15 times without correcting that behavior,” Anderson said, adding that no other staff member tried to stop the student from calling him the slur.