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Ed Dept. eyes charge kids bullied, 1 beaten Students victims of race hate, mom sez
New York Daily News ^ | October 10, 2005 | KATHLEEN LUCADAMO

Posted on 10/12/2005 6:47:22 PM PDT by Gator61

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: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: assault; blackracism; blackracists; bullying; diversityidiot; education; hate; hatecrime; hatecriminals; racism; stupidliberal; urbanbarbarians
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1 posted on 10/12/2005 6:47:28 PM PDT by Gator61
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To: Gator61

Conservatives -- Liberals who just sent their kids to a public school.


3 posted on 10/12/2005 6:51:50 PM PDT by D.P.Roberts
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To: Gator61

Home school. They will most likely get a better education.


4 posted on 10/12/2005 6:53:09 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Gator61

Yikes, What a liberal air-head!


HOMESCHOOL!


5 posted on 10/12/2005 6:54:05 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delenda est publius schola)
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To: Gator61
Always a good idea to check out the neighborhood before you move in. A lot of my neighbors moved here after discovering this place at the mosque Friday evening after prayer.

Home sales here are getting top dollar too!

6 posted on 10/12/2005 6:54:12 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: Gator61

People are so amazingly dumb. This woman acts surprised.

Too bad every liberal can't get a nice big dose of reality, the reality they so piously ignore. The reality that people just like them have made.


7 posted on 10/12/2005 6:54:12 PM PDT by Iris7 ("Let me go to the house of the Father.")
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To: Gator61
What? No wall-to-wall media coverage? No civil rights lawsuit? No howling and crying from the racial arsonists? No pontificating by liberal "moralists?"

Oh. You mean the racists were black, and the hate crime was against whites?

8 posted on 10/12/2005 6:56:45 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Gator61

I can't believe this lady. Nobody could that stupid.


9 posted on 10/12/2005 7:02:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Reactionary

Naw, couldn't be.


10 posted on 10/12/2005 7:03:32 PM PDT by Hilltop
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To: Iris7
So we attack people who actually practice what they preach.

Is there any sanity or civility left here on FR?

11 posted on 10/12/2005 7:03:54 PM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson ~ WBB)
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To: Reactionary

Silly!
There are no black racists and no such thing as a hate crime against whites exists!


12 posted on 10/12/2005 7:03:59 PM PDT by sarasmom (What is the legal daily bag limit for RINOs in the USA?)
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To: Gator61

I do feel bad for the kids. I was bussed to a mostly black school when I was a kid in Maryland, and while I never experienced what those kids are going through, it could get tense. I am sure the situation was the same for the black kids bussed to a mostly white school.

Being a kid (and a soldier, incidentally) is hard enough without liberals trying to use you for a damned social experiment.

The parents are the dummies in this one. "Oh this will be great for our kids..." They think because they can chum around with people of all stripes and colors in their circle of social worker liberals and mouth platitudes about how important it is for everyone to pull together, the reality for their kids is different.

I feel bad for those kids.


13 posted on 10/12/2005 7:05:39 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: OldFriend
So we attack people who actually practice what they preach.

People who preach things that are stupid and harmful to themselves and society should be attacked.

14 posted on 10/12/2005 7:08:18 PM PDT by Gator61
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To: BenLurkin

I just re-read the article, and it just makes me damned angry. Subjecting their kids to that environment because it validates their beliefs...those parents should be flogged. Those poor kids.


15 posted on 10/12/2005 7:08:36 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: kevinjdeanna

Any lurking New Yorkers who want to discuss the weather? I mean, what the hell?


16 posted on 10/12/2005 7:12:00 PM PDT by durasell
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To: Gator61

Nothing racist in your assumption that black kids are inherently thugs and the parents ought to have known that, yet they put their own kids in jeopardy on purpose.


17 posted on 10/12/2005 7:12:23 PM PDT by OldFriend (One Man With Courage Makes a Majority ~ Andrew Jackson ~ WBB)
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To: OldFriend

Reality does not have a racist face.


18 posted on 10/12/2005 7:14:25 PM PDT by cynicom
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To: Gator61
City education officials are investigating the claims of a pair of boys from Oklahoma who moved to Brooklyn to experience diversity....

They got some diversity alright .... in spades.

19 posted on 10/12/2005 7:14:39 PM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: freekitty

What? And miss those wonderful opportunities for socialization?


20 posted on 10/12/2005 7:15:25 PM PDT by Chanticleer (Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. Lewis)
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