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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.