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.