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There aren’t many teachers as devoted to their students as Brown is, she says. She brought her own television to the Toronto school for her class to use, a kettle so she could make them hot chocolate when they felt ill, and cheese and crackers when they were hungry. When they handed in assignments, she’d stay up until 2 a.m. to grade them.

If I was (their) parent, I would beat them

The students liked her, she says, but there was a core group of “little brats” that didn’t like that she doesn’t “put up with bulls–t.”

“If I was (their) parent, I would beat them,” she says.

When Brown expressively speaks with her hands about the students, her red and blonde dreadlocks sway from the movement. It wasn’t rare for students to tell her to “shut the f–k up” if she asked them to do their work. One she mentions specifically will “need a psychiatrist. And when the psychiatrist is finished, the psychiatrist is going to need a psychologist.” Others brag about paying female students $20 to have sex in the washrooms, she says.

The school has a high population of Filipino students. The girls don’t go to school to learn, she says, only to “get men to take care of (them).”

“Filipino parents get pregnant early… 12, 13 as soon as they have their period they get pregnant,” Brown says. “How is a teenager going to raise a teenager?”

Still, Brown insists she never swore at them. At the hearing, another video was shown of a woman telling a class to “kiss my black ass without touching it.” The school’s vice principal identified Brown as the woman in the video. She denies having says those words — or having viewed the videos, despite an OCT lawyer saying she did.