CAROL STREAM, Ill. – Some students just didn’t want to be called “African-American.”

A substitute teacher in Carol Stream’s Jay Stream Middle School referred to some black students with the term some consider to be politically correct and they interrupted her, saying they were, in fact, Jamaican.

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“All four of us that were sitting there got offended because none of us are from Africa. I’m Jamaican. So we said, ‘Can you please not call us that?” student Mea Thompson tells NBC Chicago.

“She continued to call us that and said, ‘It’s the politically correct term.’ Then she said, ‘Well, back then you guys would be considered the N-word.”

The students say they were appalled and offended to hear the teacher talk that way in the classroom.

“We were so shocked and we were like, ‘What? Excuse me?'” Thompson says. “She was like, ‘Well, back then that’s what African-Americans were called.'”

The students say the teacher used the term numerous times during the class and repeatedly referred to them as “slaves.”

“One student threw down her books and others started crying, the students claim,” the news station reports.

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Superintendent Bill Shields tells the Daily Herald the teacher – who was not named – was supposed to be delivering a lesson on the Cold War but instead, she asked the black students about the Emancipation Proclamation.

“The students were offended by the conversation, and we applaud them. We were very proud of them that they reported the information to the principal,” Shields says.

After complaints were lodged, the school district interviewed the substitute teacher and she “corroborated” the students’ claims.

She says she was using the term in “historical context.”

“This person talked on a topic and didn’t have sensitivity training,” the superintendent tells the paper. “Though she may have been an expert in that particular (historical) era, she did not use the best judgment.”

A district spokesperson said the teacher “will not be asked back to the school.”

A parent claims she’s going to contact the police to explore “hate crime charges.”