It was a long conversation. At first they told me that they were only suspending my daughter and not the minority child because our society had to make up for the years of discrimination suffered by minorities at the hands of whites. My daughter was sitting in the meeting with us, and I asked them to look at her as an individual and explain to her how it is justice for her to pay for things that happened before she was born. (silence)
Then I explained to them that my kids were never taught prejudice and didn’t even know it existed until they were forced by bus to attend a school where they were a very tiny minority. There they were treated very badly by the students and staff, because they were white and spoke English, and it was in their schools that they learned that some people hate because of the color of one’s skin. They didn’t learn it from me.
I also told them that if they were going to continue to discriminate against my child it would not be the last they heard from me.
Truly excellent way that you handled it! Thank you for describing.