State of the PCness

In this article, a teacher "referred to 'a Little Sambo sitting in the back of the room' as an example in a discussion on gaining respect from students." She was placed on paid leave for a week.

If some teacher said a bunch of the worst non-racial curse words in the middle of a speech to other teachers, would he have been placed on leave? I really don't think so.

It seems to me that people have become far, far too sensitive about political correctness nowadays.