体坛英语资讯：Tiger Woods kindergarten teacher demands apology_娱乐

体坛英语资讯：Tiger Woods kindergarten teacher demands apology

Tiger Woods' kindergarten teacher demanded an apology on Friday from the embattled golfer for "false accusations of physical and racial abuse".

Woods contended in a 2005 book that he was harassed and racially taunted on his first day of school, "and the teacher really didn't do much of anything."

"The accusations against me were brought up again when Tiger's infidelities came to light," Maureen Decker told reporters here.

Decker said she was "shocked, saddened and disappointed" by what she called Woods' "false accusations of physical and racial abuse on his first day of school in my kindergarten class."

U.S. team member Tiger Woods watches play as he stands on the sixth hole during his foursome match at the Presidents Cup golf tournament at Harding Park golf course in San Francisco, California, in this October 8, 2009 file photo

"My friends and relatives started reminding me of how he slandered me and the school. I am still feeling the stress of the allegations. I have tried numerous times to get through to Tiger or his representatives to ask for an explanation and an apology, but no one ever returned my calls," Decker said at a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred.

Decker, 69, said she wants a private and public apology from Woods.

Decker was Woods' kindergarten teacher at Cerritos Elementary School in Anaheim of Los Angeles in 1981-82.

In the Charles Barkley book "Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?," Woods is quoted as saying: "I became aware of my racial identity on my first day of school, on my first day of kindergarten. A group of sixth graders tied me to a tree, spray-painted the word (racial epithet) on me, and threw rocks at me. That was my first day of school. And the teacher really didn't do much of anything.