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My white sons keep complaining about “the brown guy” in their day care. How should I proceed?
Slate ^ | June 19, 2019 | JAMILAH LEMIEUX

Posted on 06/23/2019 10:46:30 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Dear Care and Feeding,

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My boys seem to like the center so far. The only hiccup has been “the brown guy” that is in their classroom (their words for him … I’ll call him “T”).

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Both of my sons have complained that T has hit them and generally makes a lot of noise in class. I mentioned this to an employee in their classroom (not the teacher herself, who was tied up at the moment), who told me that T has “boundary issues” and promised to make sure the teacher knows what has been going on.

Is there anything else I should be doing here? I don’t love the hitting part, and I would be just as upset if it were any other kid in the room doing it. However, I feel concerned that it’s T that my sons have zeroed in on because he is the only “brown guy” in the room. When they refer to him that way, I correct them with his name. I try not to dwell on differences, and I certainly don’t want to instill biases on them that they may not even have yet. I also don’t want to encourage them to be friends or interact with him if he really is just a jerk.

For now, I think it’s a case of them not liking the loud kid that occasionally may be in their personal space bubble, and they just aren’t sure how to advocate for themselves. Any thoughts or insights would be helpful.

—Don’t Want to Be a Snoot

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: daycare; racism; virtuesignaling
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To: JonPreston

Those toddlers are decades more advanced than their idiot mother when it comes to wisdom.


61 posted on 06/23/2019 1:23:47 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I did the same thing to the white haired kid living next door to me when I was 5, but with a baseball bat. Yes, his behavior stopped too. Amazing how that works.


62 posted on 06/23/2019 1:25:44 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: EdnaMode

Your utopia view Dad is divorced from the reality that your boys encounter every day. shame on you for being too full of self hate to protect them.


63 posted on 06/23/2019 2:01:58 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: JonPreston

Yup.

War on whites begins early.

Dude should focus more on his kids being attacked. cripes they are just pointing out the biggest attribute of their attacker, thats not racist. That’s descriptive.


64 posted on 06/23/2019 2:15:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

Being a retired public-school teacher, I can assure everyone that kids who have “boundary issues” can come in all colors. That said, black kids seem to exhibit this kind of behavior at a much higher rate than other groups. And way too many school personnel seem to be reluctant to call them out on it.

I worked at a semi-rural school. The worst behavior came from kids who had moved into the district from more “urban” areas. Local black kids pretty much knew how to behave. The newcomers—not so much. This tells me, it has a lot more to do with upbringing than race.


65 posted on 06/23/2019 2:22:48 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: EdnaMode

Ever try to beat a brown guys skull into concrete? They have hard heads.


66 posted on 06/23/2019 2:33:14 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Manuel OKelley; ladyjane

Lot of truth in those excellent commentaries.

Thanks to you both for the posts.


67 posted on 06/23/2019 2:42:47 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: EdnaMode

“classroom (not the teacher herself, who was tied up at the moment), “

LOL... I had to read this over a few times before I figured it out. I thought the teacher literally was “tied up” at the moment. I was thinking, “Wow. This kid really IS a problem!)


68 posted on 06/23/2019 3:24:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe “Care And Feeding” should be home taking care of the kids instead of warehousing them at a daycare center. I could be wrong.


69 posted on 06/23/2019 3:26:25 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz

Wonderful post. Thank you.


70 posted on 06/23/2019 3:28:38 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Worry ends where faith begins.)
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To: BuffaloJack
What was the response from the educrats vis-a -vis your grandson?
71 posted on 06/23/2019 3:39:20 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: EdnaMode

Child of color is hitting others.
Child of color is not stopped when hitting others.
White kids are chastised for identifying child of color by color while beatings don’t stop.
You’ve just proven that it is worse to liberals to be called racist than PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN.

This isn’t new, given that Muslim rape gangs were covered up by police.

‘Girls must be saved from going through this hell’: Call for public inquiry into Telford sex scandal as it emerges up to 1,000 children as young as 11 were drugged, beaten and raped over 40 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5487167/Telford-child-sex-scandal-involving-1-000-Britains-worst.html#ixzz59SXRPVJf

Grooming gangs abused more than 700 women and girls around Newcastle after police appeared to punish victims
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-uk-britain-newcastle-serious-case-review-operation-sanctuary-shelter-muslim-asian-a8225106.html

Professionals blamed Oxfordshire girls for their sexual abuse (by Muslim rape gangs), report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/03/professionals-blamed-oxfordshire-girls-for-their-sexual-abuse-report-finds


72 posted on 06/23/2019 3:40:05 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: imardmd1

The tragedy is that if a child doesn’t learn proper socialization (don’t hit others when mad) by the age of 4, the odds they EVER learn it go down.

In their misplaced compassion to not penalized poor little victim POC, they’ve nearly guaranteed he’ll be in prison later.


73 posted on 06/23/2019 3:42:32 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tomkat
One day, son just reared back and cold-cocked the thug. That behavior stopped.

Reply: Thus it is in the world at large, from time immemorial.

Forgot to mention, son was paddled by me for getting in a fight at school (that was the rule). However, one lick only and not very hard. Had to keep my word.

74 posted on 06/23/2019 4:40:52 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Bigg Red; EdnaMode
Edna: Is there anything else I should be doing here?

Bigg:Yes, take care of your own precious children at home instead of subjecting them to the warehousing and potential abuse that is day care.

Nonsense! These boys are old enough to go to a regular school

You don't let the bad-acting kids or adult monitors that tolerate it or Care center owner/operators drive you out. The offender is not a two- or three-year-old biter-kicker that needs correction. The miscreant is old enough to deserve consequences from the victims, the attendant, and/or the owner for whom the age-class division is a profit center with stated quality performance metrics.

Appear personally at the central office and demand rectification or refusal to keep the victims there unless they, the offended children, can effectively complain.

Be prepared to firmly deal with the owners, who are the ones setting the standards to be met by all within their purview. The center operators are the problem, not their underlings or the clients.

75 posted on 06/23/2019 4:53:07 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Those toddlers are decades more advanced than their idiot mother ...

How do you know it is a mother writing the letter?

76 posted on 06/23/2019 5:07:14 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: CodeToad

She actually blames her kids for ‘zeroing’ in on him....because he’s brown! Lol. Not because he’s hitting them. Those boys will be beat up as wusses from here on out. Idiots everywhere!


77 posted on 06/23/2019 5:19:54 PM PDT by sheana
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To: EdnaMode

>>>My boys seem to like the center so far. The only hiccup has been “the brown guy” that is in their classroom (their words for him … I’ll call him “T”)<<<

T, as in Mr. T?

The guy is a Racist.


78 posted on 06/23/2019 5:24:16 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: robowombat

The educrats did nothing. They couldn’t argue about the right to self defense, the feral was a known problem and the teacher admitted that my grandson did come to her with complaints. They dropped everything and it went away.


79 posted on 06/24/2019 4:11:48 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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To: EdnaMode

>>T has “boundary issues”

open borders, amigo


80 posted on 06/24/2019 5:08:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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