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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
I’ll say it again - “educators,” at all levels, are among the stupidest, most bureaucratic and rigid people I have ever met.
It seems a paradox, but the times have given it proof.
The police cordoned off a safe space from all the micro-aggressions.
I truly hope we never get into a large scale shooting war again.
A lot of people will get their feelings hurt.
What exactly is the crime, even if it were racist, extremely racist, why would the cops be called?
Imagine the riots if brownies were deemed racist and banned from store shelves.
These people are the stupidest people on the planet. Allowing them anywhere near your child is child abuse.
I’m surprised they didn’t call for a SWAT team ........
These drama queen victim types are unbelievable.
Just another “Black Hole” into the madness of uncertainty.
PC police to the rescue.
I thought they were taling about Girl Scouts that are Brownies (tiny Grl Scouts)
They are of the lowest IQ of all majors-— and that certification for stupidity is intentional and the creation of the “education” major was done to rid the schools of Excellence in Math, Science, and Literature. All the courses in universities have been dumbed down for over 70 years-—they had to do it gradually so they could fool parents as they destroyed the Minds of their children and corrupted them. (Warped their perceptions of history/Truth (God) and Reality).
They get rid of teachers with “brains” and punish them. I was going to major in “education” but the stupidity in the courses were mind-numbing. I couldn’t stand the wasted hours of my time for literal CR*P and the fellow students (future “educators”) were some of the dumbest people I had ever been with in class. (I had gone to private schools up until college.)
Teachers now are just facilitators (trained bots) of the Neo-Marxist worldview-—to embed irrationality and stupidity into children and keep them locked up and unable to think for themselves for 8 hours a day until they are literally incapable of “thinking” coherently and understanding Reality since they were in controlled artificial institutions for most of their childhood. They will have irrational, vile minds as the Black Lives Matter group-—only irrational, ignorant, emotional, drugged-out zombies-—incapable of critical thinking.
Imagine if these were served...
>>Just another “Black Hole” into the madness of uncertainty.<<
You mean “African Ancestry Hole.”
This story is also frustrating, though, because what so many people AREN’T hearing about is how it was the prosecutor’s office that told the school to report every little incident that might be a crime, including name-calling.
Hot Air at least reports that in this story. It also reports that the prosecutor’s office apparently told the school district that because of a delay in reporting an incident at a high school, but the general reaction to the order by parents and school officials has been that it’s out of line.
That said, another troubling thing is that people are jumping to the conclusion that the boy’s “brownie” remark wasn’t racist, when we don’t know what that remark was. It might not have been racist, but it also might have been.
As I mentioned in another thread about this, I recall how children in the first, second and third grades of my elementary school would say nasty things to and about each other regularly, and that was one of the many things that our teachers would have us write about as punishment for doing so.
I recall once in second grade having to write twenty-five times the same sentence about being kind after having some conflict with some other students. I’d twirled my finger near my head in the sign for “crazy,” but I actually told the teacher that I had just been twirling my hair (I wasn’t in trouble very much at all, but I could lie in the spot, apparently). Then when I brought my work home, I remember my mother asking about that paper, and I told her that the whole class had had to write that (which, I don’t really blame myself for doing that, given how my parents were).
I also vividly recall a boy in my class calling me “Hitler’s granddaughter” because of my family’s German background. Our teacher was pretty angry at him for saying that.
All in all, it’s entirely possible that what the boy said was racist. We just don’t know. And he even might have told his mother differently. This is not to say that the other student might not have misinterpreted his remark, but we just don’t know.
One hallmark of the secular humanist left is that it doesn’t care about facts, but its “larger narratives.” I hate to see people jumping to conclusions when we don’t know what was said. The Daily Caller did that yesterday when writing about this.
One thing is for sure. It doesn’t sound like there’s even a remote possibility that the police and CPS needed to be called in this case. It sounds like something that the teacher, or at most the school and parents, could easily have handled, and should have been the ones to handle. My teacher handled our name-calling and insults without the principal getting involved.
It might not have been teacher who called police, either. Perhaps the teacher called in the principal, for what reason, again, we don’t know, and the principal followed the prosecutor’s directive to contact authorities.
Imagine what would’ve happened if they had passed out black licorice.
America would be better off if ALL schools were closed down and everyone sent home.
After a cooling off period of, say, 6 months. The system could be restarted with a completely different staff and, of course, competent teachers and no federal government intervention.
Stay home, moms. Take care of your children and school them in the interim. Too busy with your careers? Kiss your nation goodbye and buy a burka.
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