Posted on 05/13/2008 5:36:19 AM PDT by Nextrush
Police said four white students at Central York Middle School used racial slurs and harrassed a black student while they rode home on a school bus Friday afternoon.
Springettsbury Township Police were called to the school Monday morning to investigate a report of harrassment on the bus.
The 13-year old white boys "verbally and physically harrassed and intimidated" a 13-year old black boy, using racial slurs as the bus took the students home, police said.
Julie Randall Romig, spokeswoman for the Central York School District, said the district was notified of the harrassment. She declined to discuss details of what happened.
"The Central York School District does not tolerate any form of harrassment or intimidation, including those forms that are racially or ethnically motivated," Romig said, reading a statement. "The district has policies and procedures outlined in its student code of conduct that clearly outline this behavior as unacceptable and subject to discipline."
The district addressed the situation in accordance with policy and the student code of conduct and called police, according to the statement.
The four students were identified and disciplined, Romig said. The district does not discuss disciplinary action taken against students.
Police released a statement that said the department "is appalled at the fact that such abhorrent activity still permeates our commmunity in the 21st Century."
Police are still investigating.
Central York School District in the middle of a three-year district wide "diversity" program as I have noted in some vanity posts that detail the program.
With all the incidents of violence including fights where police have been called to the various schools near where I live, this incident becomes a big thing.
With all the teacher sex incidents in school districts around here in recent years, including Central York, the police come out to say they are "appalled" about the bad words used by students.
They never said that about student fights or teacher-students sex incidents.
Are we becoming a society where words used to hurt people are a more serious offense that sexual molestation or acts of violence?
Police may charge these students with some sort of "ethnic intimidation" offense.
Jackie Robinson broke into Major League Baseball when these laws did not exist. He took those slurs from the stands 60 years ago and overcame them.
Well times have changed and now we live in The Nanny State.
The school as schools have always done should discipline students for bad language, but when the state gets involved prosecuting people for racial language, that's when I say "Hail Nanny."
Oh for God’s sake. The GD police don’t investigate a white boy being called a cracker. Why the hell are they getting involved when the tables are turned!? I know the answer but damn!
So where is the newspaper article when black girls cornered my white daughter in the school bathroom using ‘Biscuit’ and ‘Cracker’??
Get used to it. We're all on work release in The Big Camp now...
To point out other perceived injustices and question the importance of picking one type to make a big deal of doesn’t negate the fact that the behavior is wrong. I do wish however that occassionally we would see black on white hate speech highlighted in public media and shown to be wrong too.
Sticks and stones, will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
How’s that for diversity training?
Get with the program, citizen. Only whites are capable of racism.
On a lighter note, I have yet to figure out what ‘Cracker’ is supposed to mean. As derogatory terms go, that one is kind of weak.
I’ve seen stuff written on public bathroom walls that uses people’s names and calls them “KKK.”
Calling people “KKK” seems pretty nasty to me.
But the problem isn’t uneven enforcement of laws, its the whole notion that racial and ethnic words are criminal.
Once the notion that words are criminal is implanted, there is no telling where the notion will end.
They’ll put us in jail for calling Robert Byrd “Sheets” Byrd.
The First Amendment will end up as toilet paper.
Anyway, at one point in the interview he said that he had occasionally been called names, "But that didn't hurt me."
You could hear the interviewer's jaw hit the floor: "It didn't hurt you?? How -- How can you say that???"
Nowadays, sticks and stones are no big deal -- but apparently there's nothing worse than being called a name.
I don’t think people should use that language in school to describe other people.
But the state must not proscute citizens including minors for using those words.
That’s when the line is crossed and the protection of the First Amendment is chipped away.
one simple solution, segregation it worked before and you didn’t have all these problems....yes folks say i am old fashioned but if it ain’t broke why the hell try to fix it....
I am sickened to hear the blacks whine every time a white kid farts in their direction.
let em take it out back behind the school house and duke it out....
I’m outraged at the behavior of those little Honkeys!
Just like how the monkeys and tigers are segregated at the zoo?
Personally, I’ve reached a point where my good will is spent. I really don’t give a damn if someone uses a racial slur against someone (that being said, if my 5 year old son were to use the word “nigger”, he would have a difficult time sitting). It just doesn’t bother me anymore. As a white guy, I’m sick and tired of minorites (and perceived minorities) crying wolf for money, fame, power etc...Calling the police to school because someone was called a name? Seriously, if the same rules were applied across the board and non-whites were held to the same racial standards, we would quickly see an end to this bullshit....
Personally, I’ve reached a point where my good will is spent. I really don’t give a damn if someone uses a racial slur against someone (that being said, if my 5 year old son were to use the word “nigger”, he would have a difficult time sitting). It just doesn’t bother me anymore. As a white guy, I’m sick and tired of minorites (and perceived minorities) crying wolf for money, fame, power etc...Calling the police to school because someone was called a name? Seriously, if the same rules were applied across the board and non-whites were held to the same racial standards, we would quickly see an end to this bullshit....
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