White headmaster at New York Catholic school placed on leave after telling a Black student to kneel and apologize 'the African way'

CNN ^ | March 24, 2021 | Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN

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He admitted to whom? To doing what?

[GOPJ]

I have done volunteer work at parish for many years. Headmaster was there a while. He admitted he did it. A stupid thing to do in a minority school in this day and age. The school has apologized. He had to go. You kneel before Christ not a teacher.

I'm so use to these pity party type stories being fake (http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/) I jumped to the conclusion it wasn't true. If this man had a student kneel in front of him to apologize - he should have been fired... Horrible. Apologies all around if this really happened.

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Sometimes good people make the dumbest decisions.

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He had the kid kneel before the teacher.

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Yes Chaminade is very highly regarded. So much so they dont take regents exams. Forte in unitates.

[CaptainK]

Let’s see if she puts her son into the Hempstead public school system.

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That would be unfortunate.

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Well, wouldn’t you investigate first?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Well, wouldn’t you investigate first?

Absolutely. That's why I said "if the story happened as reported". If this actually took place as described, the guy deserved to be fired (and should not have been able to resign on his own).

[Glad2bnuts]

The best thing for them to tell their son would be that he should have been doing the work that was required, when it was required, and ended it at that.

In elementary school, my nephew was a holy terror. My oldest sister was the emergency contact when they could not contact his Mother. When she got to school she found that XXxx was throwing an absolute fit in the Vice Principals office. It seemed that the teacher had taken his Pokemon cards and he wanted them back. The people in charge were mortified and frightened by his actions and were attempting to placate him while holding the line at not getting his cards back. Big Sis did what she did best, she told him to “KNOCK IT OFF” and continued with “you are inconvenience me and I will not hear another word” He meekly got into the car and got a 15 minute lecture on how wrong he was. Of course this was the complete opposite of what his Mother would do.

Today this young man of 28 is a pseudo female still abiding in mommies home, with walls full of holes from kicks and fists.

THAT is the fruit of giving children what they want.

You tell your child to SUCK IT UP, and add what my Dad would tell me. “Quit whining, life is tough, you have to be tougher”. The student would have learned a valuable lesson, respect authority.

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It seems that the mother recorded her meeting with the headmaster. He admitted what he did. Relating the Nigerian father story. Headmaster has 6 kids of his own, including 4 boys and has his own kids kneel to apologize. The man worked there 17 years. He should know better.