School secretary resigns after video surfaces of her spitting at black family, using racist slur at ShopRite

Lauren Holter
A woman resigned from her job after going on a racist rant in the grocery store. (Photo: NBC New York)
A woman resigned from her job after going on a racist rant in the grocery store. (Photo: NBC New York)

A secretary resigned from a Connecticut school district after a video surfaced on Friday of the woman repeatedly calling a man the N-word and spitting at a black family. The woman, identified by Hamden Public School System as Corinne Terrone, started the altercation at a ShopRite in East Haven, Conn., according to local broadcast station NBC New York.

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The district’s human resource director arranged to meet with Terrone about the video and she quickly resigned from her position as a clerk in the school board offices, Hamden Public Schools superintendent Jody Ian Goeler said in a statement to the New York Post.

“The language the employee used in the video is in conflict with the values of the Hamden Public School System,” Goeler said in the statement. “Someone who will use that sort of language in any setting, whether public or private, is not someone we want anywhere near our children.”

Goeler added in a statement to Yahoo Lifestyle that the incident in the video “sickened and disgusted” her.

“There is no room in our community, our State and our country for such expressions of hate and bigotry,” she said. “Certainly, as a school district, we wanted to be absolutely clear that such behavior will not be tolerated. I am proud of our administration and Director of Human Resources for their work in arriving at a swift and permanent separation of employment.”

The district also filed a report with the Department of Children and Families, according to NBC, because Terrone’s children were with her when the altercation happened.

Multiple people shared the video on Twitter to put Terrone on blast. One person tweeted that “the worst part about this video” is “how easy it was for her to say those things in front of her children.” They added, “THIS is how racism is taught. She had absolutely no problem with saying it.”

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