Phoenix School Worker Probed For Allegedly Using Racial Slur During Appeal to Students On 4/6/21 at 9:44 AM EDT A middle school employee was allegedly caught using a racial slur in an incident reportedly filmed inside a school bus in Phoenix. The staff member, said to be from the Paradise Valley Unified School District, can be heard seemingly discouraging students of Vista Verde Middle School from using racist language in footage taken on Thursday, April 1. "I don't want to hear the [n-word] word anymore," the school official says in a video obtained by CBS5AZ, as students can be heard erupting in audible shock.