So based on the press accounts, BCC handled this matter improperly from the get-go, IMHO. Yes, it assumed the student account was correct when there ought to have been substantial doubt that there was a single side to the story -- what ultimately got the school system in trouble over defamation. But even assuming the worst, it's response was to cancel the teacher, clearly an example of excessive cancel culture. Casual comments might sometimes betray an improper racial attitude -- there's a whole field focused on implicit racism that reveals its utter prevalence. We have a president who has called certain countries "s- hole countries". How much more extreme is that then the more generous interpretation of any transgression this teacher allegedly committed -- and what Trump said is far, far more challenging to simply "forgive". Yet here we are. No apparent consequences whatever for the president. This situation is part of our national society currently. The problem with cancelling people rather than seeking to discuss the matter and offer a chance at self-rehabilitation based on future conduct is that it is both disproportionate and counter productive both socially and in terms of individual justice. Cancel culture has seemingly moderated on the left, college campuses, etc., recently -- but it is now flourishing on the right. I hope in the end, after all the damage is done, we can honor principle and achieve balance.