Posted on 06/29/2016 4:31:48 PM PDT by Zakeet
In the English language, a certain type of baked chocolate dessert is known as a "brownie." This is very problematic, of course, because a lot of people have brown skin. If you say the word "brownie" out loud, you might hurt the feelings of a person with brown skin. And that's bad. That's why we have the police.
On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.
A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was "racist," the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“#9. Oh, like saying “Dark Chocolates” about candy?”
What about WHITE chocolate? Horrors!
Nope, can't use the word "colored," which must from now on be referred to as "the 'c' word."
Sounds like this kid is filled with PURE HATRED. Glad to see he’s now getting some help.
Sounds like this kid is filled with PURE HATRED. Glad to see he’s now getting some help.
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I would have arrested the principle for calling and taking my time away from my duty.
This is the bureaucratic-fight equivalent of work-to-rule.
Both of them deserve to be sued.
If Christie had won he’d probably have rolled over by now begging Hildog to rub his belly
If I’m not mistaken, we actually don’t know what was said, especially what the boy said. It seems like some commentators are speculating, or even concluding, that he mentioned the word “brownies,” and another student thought his use of the word was racist.
What the Philly.com article says is that another student thought the boy’s comment was racist. If that’s the case, possibly his comment was racist, at least to some extent.
Most likely, too, if that’s the case, he didn’t recognize what he was saying.
On the other hand, the other student might have been mistaken.
Without knowing what the comment actually was, and the circumstances (and so far it doesn’t seem like that information has been released), we can’t say that a student simply found the mere use of the word “brownies” racist (which is probably unlikely, since we have to think that just about every third-grader knows very well what a brownie is).
But whatever the case, this should have been a matter dealt with most likely in the classroom by the teacher, or at most by the school and the parents involved.
There’s been no suggestion that anyone believes it was something that needed the involvement of police and child protective services.
All administrators at William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood should be charged, tried, and convicted of child abuse, and then sentenced to be flogged, tarred, and feathered.
This is the most insane thing I have read in years..
Looking at the linked article, this appears to be a snit fit between the police department and the school. The police department said something stupid about what should be brought to its attention, and the school knew it was stupid, but believed the way to show that it was stupid was to obey it to the letter.
Ordinarily, the brownie fuss wouldn’t have even resulted in the principal getting involved let alone this.
Both the school and police department should be sued.
I live in New Jersey and take offense to that remark. Anything disparaging could be said about any state in the nation.
Could be said . . . but said in a way that it really is deserved and sticks, perhaps not so much. The inmates seem more firmly entrenched there than many other places.
GIRL SCOUTS STILL HAVE BROWNIES!
Some kid made a stupid P.C. remark and the teacher could have said that is not a context for the term that is considered offensive.
Actually, you will be happy to learn that kids get it.. People call everything racist now, so it is common joke to say “that is racist”
Maybe, kind of like they used to say, that is gay
It was the prosecutor’s office that put out the directive, though.
But agreed that normally a principal wouldn’t even get involved, and the involvement of the police and apparently child protective services was way over the line.
The Philly.com article says that it seems the May directive to “report everything” was in response to a high school incident that wasn’t immediately reported.
So why did prosecutors think the proper remedy was to have school officials call police and CPS about everything? How exactly did they reach that conclusion, especially on a legal basis?
Of course, the school district can’t be calling about EVERYTHING, too.
Likely, they just called if an issue reached the principal. So how and why did this go from the teacher to the principal?
As I mentioned, we don’t know exactly what was said by the boy, or the other student, much less how the teacher responded. Perhaps due to confidentiality issues, that never will be released. If the situation would have been handled by the teacher or the school, there would be no need, either, for the public to know what happened. But since it’s now a public controversy, there appears a need for someone to explain more about the “incident” itself.
yea.. my ex-gf’s kids would say something was racist about 30 times a day.. “How do you like your coffee?”.. “Black”... THAT’S RACIST...
TeaBags and Fruitcake anybody?
The paper didn’t allow comments. I wonder why?
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