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NYC Ed Dept. eyes charge kids bullied, 1 beaten (called "cracker" and "white boy,")
NY Daily News ^ | 10.10.05 | KATHLEEN LUCADAMO

Posted on 10/10/2005 7:32:44 PM PDT by Coleus

Ed Dept. eyes charge
kids bullied, 1 beaten

Students victims of race hate, mom sez

 

Lisa Brown moved from Oklahoma so that her two sons, Sloan (l.) and J.T. and her daughter Robbie could experience diversity in Brooklyn.
City education officials are investigating the claims of a pair of boys from Oklahoma who moved to Brooklyn to experience diversity, and instead say they got schooled in racism and violence.

Mom Lisa Brown, 33, told the Daily News she relocated her family from their small Oklahoma town so her husband, a Brooklyn native and social worker, could more easily find work and her sons could experience different people and ways of life.

Brown enrolled her sons, Sloan, 12, and J.T., 13, at Ebbets Field Middle School in Crown Heights. But when the boys, who are white, showed up, their mom said, they got a chilling indication of what was to come.

"Oh my gosh, we are going to have fun this year," a security guard muttered, according to Brown.

Things quickly got worse.

Sloan was beaten mercilessly, called "cracker" and "white boy," and chased into traffic by his new classmates, his family said.

The abuse got so bad that Sloan routinely bolted out of the building to find his brother and run to a nearby subway, dodging verbal and physical attacks, he said.

"It almost makes me cry," Sloan said. "I'm scared to go back."

The brothers skipped school all last week while their parents tried to sort out the mess.

"Do I have to send the National Guard in to get my children an education?" asked the distraught mom.

When Brown tried to alert Principal Marge Baker to the abuse, "the principal refused to take the calls," she charged.

Brown filed several police reports at the 71st Precinct stationhouse about the alleged abuse, but said she was ignored.

Police sources said precinct cops did take the incident seriously but believe school staff are in a better position to deal with what appeared to be a series of schoolyard fights and bullying.

The boys' stepfather, Ken Brown, requested a transfer for the boys on Sept. 28, but Education Department officials noted he can't seek the change because he is not a custodial parent.

Eventually, the fedup mom went to nearby Elijah Stroud Middle School to transfer her sons there, but said the principal told her: "They'll have the same problem here."

Education officials promised to help the Browns - after being contacted by The News.

"The principal was not sufficiently attentive to this situation," the Education Department said in a statement. "Upon learning of the situation, the region is taking immediate action to arrange a transfer for these children.

"We will fully investigate what happened, including whether racist statements, which are not tolerated, were made and take appropriate action."

Brown said the Education Department called her several times over the weekend, after The News made queries, pledging to get the kids into Elijah Stroud and chastising her for calling in the press.

Despite the principal's warning, Lisa agreed to send her boys to Elijah Stroud tomorrow.

"I'll make sure my kids are safe because it is the school system's job to make sure they are," she said.

For Sloan and J.T., escaping Ebbets Field Middle School will be a relief. The school opened in September as one of the city's many new small schools, with plans to "become the crown jewel" of Crown Heights, according to the Education Department Web site.

The Browns said their ethnically and racially diverse neighbors in Prospect Heights have embraced them, and they thought New York was "the greatest place on Earth" - until they started battling the school system.

"I was excited to expose my children to a complete variety of people," Lisa Brown said. "I thought it would be an advantage. I always told my children that children could be cruel - but not to this extent."



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; blackonwhitecrime; boys; brooklyn; bullying; civilrights; civilrightsforwhites; crackerattacker; crooklyn; culturalentropy; decencydeficit; diversity; gangs; gobacktookwhitey; hatecrime; libkoolaidrinker; moforednecks; multiculturalism; nocivilrights; nonecallithatecrime; norightsforwhites; nyc; okeycrackers; redheads; schoolviolence; students; urbanbarbarians
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To: Clemenza

Your comment reminds me of that old MFSB song,Clean Up the Ghetto.
"All you brothers on the Main Line
You lived in the ghetto once upon a time"


121 posted on 10/10/2005 8:29:20 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: durasell
People who physically abuse the weak, stupid, and mediocre are far from enlightened.
122 posted on 10/10/2005 8:29:50 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: cyborg
Whites who are racist tend to act like condescending douchebags towards blacks, whereas blacks tend to be more "vocal" and sometimes violent when they hate whites. Again, that's just my experience.

Of course, my problems in elementary school were from knuckledragging whites whose daddies pulled down high five figures just for picking up garbage, a job they pay minimum wage to Haitian immigrants down in Florida. Man what a bunch of morons my (white) schoolmates were.

123 posted on 10/10/2005 8:30:00 PM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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To: Clemenza

"Hopefully, word gets out so that these hicks from Oklahoma and Ohio..."


There was a "hick" born in Dixon, Illinois, a tiny town who went on to a very nice career - his name? Ronald Reagan. There was another "hick" born in Denton, a small town north of Dallas who also had a nice career - his name? Dwight David Eisenhower. In fact, there are a lot of us "hicks" who've been born in the so-called red states who have done quite nicely, served in the Military with Honorable Discharges, fought in war zones without complaint and have retired and feel no need to talk down to people in the states in between the western border of NYC and the eastern border of Cali.

This is a lesson you might want to take to heart.


124 posted on 10/10/2005 8:30:27 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

"Sadly, most inner city black kids will never be able to break the chains that their families, "friends" and cultures have bound them with."

You left out one word in your description of families, "friends" and cultures -- Democrat.


125 posted on 10/10/2005 8:31:00 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (Stop the ACLU - Support the Public Expression of Religion Act 2005 - Call your congressmen.)
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To: Rembrandt

I love the red state folks. Its your disfunctional relatives who move to New York that upset me. Think Michael Moore instead of Ronald Reagan.


126 posted on 10/10/2005 8:31:42 PM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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To: PAR35
"I FReepmailed you a more detailed response of why I said what I did because I concluded that it might get pulled if I posted it here. It is somewhat politically incorrect."

Don't forget this is NOT DU! :)

127 posted on 10/10/2005 8:31:48 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Clemenza

Not enough money in the world for me to pick up garbage *lol*


128 posted on 10/10/2005 8:32:52 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: Vision Thing

I never said NY was an "enlightened" city. All that liberal, love they neighbor stuff is just for the tourists, like the re-make of Lindy's or the electronic stores in Times Square.

In truth, NYC is the most ruthless city on the planet.


129 posted on 10/10/2005 8:33:03 PM PDT by durasell
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To: cyborg
I would not send any child to a NYC public school. Period.

Me either. Having done 10 years in NYC public schools (and I did mine in District 26 - probably the best in the City), there isn't a chance in Hell I'd send my kids.

In fact, even though I'm out in Suffolk now, I STILL don't send 'em to public school. It's Catholic school for them. This would NEVER happen at our school.

Regards,

PS: What a moronic idiot this mother is. "Diversity" indeed.

130 posted on 10/10/2005 8:33:35 PM PDT by VermiciousKnid
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To: wardaddy

Well, that's special.


131 posted on 10/10/2005 8:33:50 PM PDT by Jaded (Hell sometimes has fluorescent lighting and a trumpet.)
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To: Rembrandt

Actually he was born in Denison, Texas :)


132 posted on 10/10/2005 8:34:09 PM PDT by BeerSwillr (Profanity free since 2003-12-17 20:41:45)
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To: Clemenza

I also got viciously tormented by my white"brothers"in elementary and junior high.
Ironically,the harassment stopped in high school as soon as I got a reputation for being a little badass troublemaker.Like that Beachboys song,"My buddies and me are getting real well known,the bad guys know us and they leave us alone"


133 posted on 10/10/2005 8:35:01 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: durasell

Drove through it once. That was enough.


134 posted on 10/10/2005 8:35:09 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: Cicero

I don't know what the requirements are for homeschooling in the State of NY, but it seems the city would be GREAT for doing it because of the myriad opportunities for culture, history, etc. there. You could hop the subway and go on a field trip at least once a week!


135 posted on 10/10/2005 8:35:21 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ron in Acreage

NY is designed to be walked through (while eating a dirty water hotdog).


136 posted on 10/10/2005 8:36:24 PM PDT by durasell
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To: cyborg
"It depends on who you ask because racism is a very subjective experience."

It's ironic, really, because racism as "suspicion regarding those who are different" goes back to issues of human survival. It will never be entirely eradicated.

137 posted on 10/10/2005 8:36:44 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: VermiciousKnid

I attended Catholic school all my life. My sister attended Uniondale High for her senior year. Life is very different in Uniondale High at the honor student level. I'd say most schools out in suburbia are better than the city with the exception of Roosevelt, a slice of NYC life, I like to say. My sister taught there and it's just sad.


138 posted on 10/10/2005 8:36:56 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: H. Paul Pressler IV

"NYC has been threatened with subway bombings and these people are worried about a little hazing?"

And would a knife in the gut also be included in your definition of "a little hazing?"


139 posted on 10/10/2005 8:37:35 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: durasell
NY is designed to be walked through (while eating a dirty water hotdog).

From a street vendor no less, something that Chicago sorely lacks (being that they were banned in the 1920s). Grays Papaya is only good when you are a starving student.

140 posted on 10/10/2005 8:38:27 PM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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