India, May 22 -- A PE teacher's Reddit post has sparked concerns online after the educator claimed that "casual racial epithets have exponentially increased" in elementary schools. The post further prompted others in the field of education to share similar experiences.

"Anyone else in elementary seeing an uptick of racial slurs?" a Florida-based elementary teacher asked. "Over the last 2 years, casual racial epithets have exponentially increased. Oddly, it's been mostly minority driven between Latin/African Americans with the occasional Caucasian chiming and something incredibly ignorant," the teacher continued.

The educator added, "They do drop the hammer pretty hard for each case such as well as contact the parents. That said, my team...