Like any family, the Andersons have bills to pay, especially for Marlon’s ongoing health needs.

Caire did not prevail. The appeals process can be long, and both emotionally and financially draining. Image copyright CBS Image caption The West High School in Madison, Wisconsin (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal/AP) By .

Photograph: Steve Apps/AP A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s i n M a d i s o n For that, Anderson … Marlon Anderson, the security guard who was rehired after being fired, in Madison, Wisconsin, on 17 October. Anderson, a security guard at Madison West High School who was fired after he says he repeated a racial slur while telling a student who had called him that word not to use it, has filed a grievance seeking his job back. Photograph: Steve Apps/AP A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s i n M a d i s o n But we absolutely believe that he has the best perspective on the wrongheaded decision by Madison School District officials to fire Marlon Anderson, an African American security guard at Madison West High School, for objecting when a disruptive student used a racial slur — the “n” word — against him.

He’ll stay on paid administrative leave as the union and district continue to negotiate his return to campus duties. The Madison West Family has come together in response to the unjust firing of Marlon Anderson by the most senior administrators of the Madison Metropolitan School District.

... Marlon Anderson says he was responding to a call Oct. 9 about a disruptive student. Email. According to Madison365, the Madison Metropolitan School District has a zero-tolerance for employees using racial slurs; however, the former guard, Marlon Anderson, said he … Marlon Anderson, the security guard who was rehired after being fired, in Madison, Wisconsin, on 17 October. When a disruptive student called him the n-word multiple times, Wisconsin high school security assistant Marlon Anderson repeated the epithet while condemning its use. Brittany Shammas.

Filed Under: Madison, Marlon Anderson, Wisconsin. Led by the student leaders of the Black Student Union (BSU), students and staff are rallying behind Marlon … Brittany Shammas .
Marlon Anderson was sacked for repeating the n-word while scolding a black pupil who addressed him with the epithet. Marlon Anderson, who had worked for Wisconsin’s Madison Metropolitan School District for 11 years, will get his pay and benefits back immediately, Madison Teachers Inc. said in a statement Monday. … MADISON, Wis. – A high school security guard in Madison, Wisconsin, got his job back Monday after outrage over his termination spread across …

MADISON (WKOW) — Madison School Board President Gloria Reyes today called for the reinstatement of Marlon Anderson, the Madison West High School security staff member who was fired after a student called him the N-word and he told the student not to, repeating the word back.

Marlon Anderson told the student to stop referring to him by a racial epithet, which officials at a Wisconsin high school said violated a zero-tolerance policy on offensive language. Marlon Anderson poses for a photo on Oct. 17 in Madison. General assignment reporter.


Steve Apps/Wisconsin … West High School students and staff are organizing walkouts Friday morning in support of Marlon Anderson, the security guard fired earlier this week. Marlon and his family--a wife and three sons--need their Madison community to love and support them in the same way that he has dedicated his life loving and supporting our children and staff.

Former Madison Metropolitan School District security guard Marlon Anderson told 27 News Thursday that when he said the n-word last Wednesday, it was to defend himself and educate a student who had used the word against him during a confrontation.