Posted on 06/30/2016 1:49:37 PM PDT by detective
This story is crazy. From Philly.com:
On June 16, police were called to an unlikely scene: an end-of-the-year class party at the William P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood.
A third grader had made a comment about the brownies being served to the class. After another student exclaimed that the remark was “racist,” the school called the Collingswood Police Department, according to the mother of the boy who made the comment.
The police officer spoke to the student, who is 9, said the boy’s mother, Stacy dos Santos, and local authorities.
Dos Santos said that the school overreacted and that her son made a comment about snacks, not skin color.
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>>Just another “Black Hole” into the madness of uncertainty.<<
You mean “African Ancestry Hole.”
If I said THAT, it would be serious Macro Aggression and would clearly call for re-education.
Maybe you missed the memo.
We are now working on using “Micro-Aggression” terms and phrases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-bmE69ZE_Y
NO KIDDING!
The boy's parents should sue the cr@p out of the school and this stupid prosecutor. It's going to take making these idiots PAY big-time to stop this kind of nonsense.
In Detroit, in the 1960’s, at the elementary school I attended, the cupcake sales were always a big hit. Never more, I’m afraid.
I suppose ‘Apple Core-Baltimore’ is a no-no out on the playground also.
Asking about brownies being served at a party is not racist.
The whole story about the prosecutor just makes it more stupid.
Police should not have been called. The 9 year old should not have been interrogated by police.
This incident was too much for me. It changed my opinion on the hopes for a decent future for this country.
What would they not have done if someone said something about “crackers”?
But then again peanut butter sandwiches are also racist (some dim bulb elementary school principal in Oregon).
HE’s in BIG TROUBLE!
“Asking about brownies being served at a party is not racist.”
And where is the evidence that that’s what happened?
I do agree that this was a matter the school should have handled. But it wasn’t the only recent incident in the school district to be mishandled due to this policy:
“Jacqueline Wolfe, whose 7-year-old son was questioned by police in early June, said Wednesday that the lack of information about her own case and the overall policy has been unacceptable.
“Wolfe said that around noon one school day, her son Tory was roughhousing with a fellow second grader in line for lunch at Tatem when a teacher said their play had become too aggressive, and the school called the police.
“After speaking with two police officers along with his principal, Tory thought he had been “arrested for playing with his friend,” his mother said. He has been too shy and upset to speak about the incident for nearly a month, she added.
“Wolfe said she did not hear about the scuffle until nearly 3 p.m., hours after it happened, when a Collingswood police officer knocked on her front door.”
Forty or fifty years ago would anybody really have expected that the least objectionable thing about “hash brownies” would be the hashish?
We actually don’t know what was said. The comment might actually have been racist, but if that was the case, it was a 9 year-old making the comment, not an adult.
As I wrote here, when I was in second grade I twirled my finger near my head - making the “crazy” sign - about another student when a number of us had a spat. I tried telling my teacher that I had just been twisting my hair, though, and after the teacher had me write twenty-five times a sentence about kindness and my mother saw that paper, I told her the whole class had gotten in trouble.
Another student also called me “Hitler’s granddaughter” due to my German heritage. He was actually a good student and not a troublemaker, but that’s the sort of thing children do, and just need correction for it.
We just don’t know what happened in this case. The only thing that’s been reported is the one mother’s take on it, in which she is very vague on the incident. Her son could easily have said he was only talking about food, just as I lied. On the other hand, he might have meant nothing with his comment. But we just don’t know, and the articles that have been written that have merely filled in the blanks with speculation have been irresponsible.
Whatever happened, though, there doesn’t seem to have been any reason for the police and CPS to have been called, and this incident wasn’t the only one. This was another:
“Jacqueline Wolfe, whose 7-year-old son was questioned by police in early June, said Wednesday that the lack of information about her own case and the overall policy has been unacceptable.
“Wolfe said that around noon one school day, her son Tory was roughhousing with a fellow second grader in line for lunch at Tatem when a teacher said their play had become too aggressive, and the school called the police.
“After speaking with two police officers along with his principal, Tory thought he had been “arrested for playing with his friend,” his mother said. He has been too shy and upset to speak about the incident for nearly a month, she added.
“Wolfe said she did not hear about the scuffle until nearly 3 p.m., hours after it happened, when a Collingswood police officer knocked on her front door.”
When I was 6 or 7 years old I was cold-cocked by my Black classmate when I walked out of class. Almost knocked me out. I had a huge welt on the side of my head.
My crime?
I asked him if he could pick up my pencil that I had dropped next to his desk.
That is exactly what I did and is exactly what he told the School Admins.
That was it.
I apparently “disrespected” him.
Some black kid heard him say, “Brown knees!” and point at
the black kid’s knees. Kid was offended that he failed to
say, “BLACK KNEES!” - Which he should have done, of course.
(The kid should have been flattered his knees were called
the same color as our “First “Black” President’s Knees”;
but, alas BHO worship has declined in popularity of late!
:o(
Don’t shoot the messenger!
“Dos Santos said that the school overreacted and that her son made a comment about snacks, not skin color.”
The article does not give the exact wording of the 9 year old’s statement but makes it clear he was referring to snacks. The article also stated that a teacher never said the child's words were racist. Another 9 year old did.
This is clearly an example of stupidity and liberal political correctness gone overboard. It will probably have a lasting bad effect on the 9 year old.
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