By Alyssa Dzikowski

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POLK COUNTY, Florida (WFOR) — A Florida mother is demanding an apology from her sons elementary school after she says the teacher’s approach to celebrating her sons birthday was “offensive” rather than celebratory.

The incident happened at a Floral Avenue Elementary School in Polk County near Orlando.

Desarae Prather said the teacher sent her the video, but she didn’t find it funny. She immediately went to the school’s office.

The video showed the teacher singing to the 6-year-old boy, “Happy Birthday to you. You live in the zoo, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too.”

Prather says there’s a history of black people being described that way which makes it extremely upsetting.

“My skin is boiling. I don’t really lik

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