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If there is a fireable offense in one school district in north Texas, open and avowed racism and white supremacy are apparently not on the list.

At least, that’s what seemed to be the case after a viral video showed a white teacher at a middle school in suburban Austin telling his students that he believed he and other white people are members of the “superior” race. Despite the levels of egregious racism unabashedly displayed by a person charged with educating the youth, the teacher at Bohls Middle School in the city of Pflugerville was not fired and instead only placed on administrative leave, local news outlet KVUE reported.

The teacher was not immediately identified, but the Pflugerville Independent School District (ISD) declined to take decisive disciplinary action for what it simply labeled “inappropriate conversation,” a term that appeared to whitewash the admittedly racist nature of the teacher’s words.

The nearly one-minute-long clip opens abruptly with the teacher, a white man, calmly explaining to his class that he is “ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one.”

The young students appear in disbelief, with one Black student asking if the teacher believes that “white is better than all.”

Another Black student asks if the teacher is “racist,” to which he replies: “I think everybody’s a racist.”

When asked again if he is racist, the teacher shakes his head yes and does not say no.

Pflugerville ISD Superintendent Dr. Douglas Killian issued an apology to students and parents but stopped short of saying whether the teacher would be fired. Instead, Killian said an “investigation” was underway. It’s unclear what else there was to investigate since video evidence exists of the teacher professing white supremacy rhetoric to middle school students.

Source: Not Fired: ‘Racist’ Texas Teacher Who Told Students White People Are ‘Superior’ Keeps Job, For Now