In a Shawnee Mission, Kansas (for that extra touch of irony) school, a dark-skinned lass confronted a light-skinned lass about the excessive use of N-shaped epithets. It was a conversational encounter, with minimal/no acrimony. As the dark-skinned lass turned to go on her way, a light-skinned lad confronted her non-cordially, with loud vulgarity, followed by kerfufflery.
The dark-skinned lass spent some time in a hospital with a broken nose. The lad has been suspended (not expelled) from school. The lass was also suspended, for defending herself from the attack.
I guess the school wants to teach her a lesson: To know her place.
“As a school and a community, we know that in order for students to learn, they must first feel safe and supported. Shawnee Mission East teachers, administrators, and staff will continue to do our absolute best to help every student who enters our school feel safe and supported so they can be at their very best…the words we use matter. Racially charged language, insults, and slurs will not be tolerated in our school…”
They are fucking liars. They suspended a girl for being a victim of a hate crime. They are actively supporting racism. It seems like the school is opening itself up to a shit ton of liability here.
I’d bet the ACLU would help that girl sue the crap out of that school.
Looks like “slapping therapy” (to remove bodily “toxins”) has side effects.
Check out the Pailala Institute’s gift shop for nifty ideas for that special person on your Xmas list. They have the Slapper, the Hand-Shaped Slapper and for stubbornly resistant toxins, the Big Slapper (only $32!).
When The Clapper just isn’t enough.
I’ve got to say, The Slapper turns off my bedside lamp every time!
And it stays off!
Of course, you can’t turn it back on ever again, but that’s tomorrow’s problem.
I guess we know the sound of one hand clapping.
It sounds like manslaughter.
I hear punishing all sides of a bullying incident regardless of circumstances is common with zero tolerance policies and such in schools.
Zero tolerance saves lazy administrators from the perils of thinking.
Yes, but it also shields them from all sorts of lawsuits.
Do not take this statement as an endorsement of the policy.
And… when you put administrators in charge of thinking, they may very well think that the “nice white boy” isn’t at fault.
Unfortunately, that too.
Not necessarily. See this article.
Or this press release.
Administrators may think it’s a magic legal shield that protects them from consequences, but so did Trump with his company’s disclaimer clause. The law is rarely that simple and unfortunately for them, if your “zero tolerance” violates a person’s rights you open yourself up to discrimination claims.
I’d be fine with an end to zero tolerance policies. They often end up punishing the victim, as in this case.
Funny you should mention that.
Damn, I miss Almost Live!
Were you thinking of that sketch when you made your post?
Pat Cashman did a podcast catching up with cast members of Almost Live! Interesting to catch up with them; did you know Uncle Fran was nominated for an Oscar?
Possibly subconsciously. It has been a long time since I last saw the show.