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.
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)
Imagine if these were served...
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.
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”?
Forty or fifty years ago would anybody really have expected that the least objectionable thing about “hash brownies” would be the hashish?
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!