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Tiger Woods' kindergarten teacher demanded an apology today from the embattled golfer, who 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."

Maureen Decker told reporters 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."

"The accusations against me were brought up again when Tiger's infidelities came to light," Decker said at a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred. "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, 69, said she wants a private and public apology from Woods.

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

Representatives for Woods, who took a hiatus from golf when news broke about his various extra-marital affairs, could not be reached for comment.