Police Called To Elementary School After 3rd Grader Makes ‘Racist’ Comment About A Brownie

Under the heading of “What The Fuck???” I bring you ‘education’ New Jersey style.

Via Zero Hedge

Mike Krieger

Before this week, 14-year-old Ella Fishbough had never been in trouble at school.

The cheerful, curly-haired eighth-grader’s undoing came when she learned that a male friend was having a bad day. As consolation, Ella put her arms around him in a hug.

“It was literally for a second,” the eighth-grader told Click Orlando. But that moment earned her a morning in detention — as well as a blemish on her formerly spotless disciplinary record.

It is at each principal’s discretion to determine what kind of touching is inappropriate. According to WFTV Orlando, hugging was banned altogether at Jackson Heights this year, in addition to holding hands, linking arms and kissing.

So this really happened. Via 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.
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 boy’s father was contacted by Collingswood police later in the day. Police said the incident had been referred to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The student stayed home for his last day of third grade.

Dos Santos said that her son was “traumatized,” and that she hopes to send him to a different Collingswood public school in the fall.

“I’m not comfortable with the administration [at Tatem]. I don’t trust them and neither does my child,” she said. “He was intimidated, obviously. There was a police officer with a gun in the holster talking to my son, saying, ‘Tell me what you said.’ He didn’t have anybody on his side.”

The incident, which has sparked outrage among some parents, was one of several in the last month when Collingswood police have been called to look into school incidents that parents think hardly merit criminal investigation.

Superintendent Scott Oswald estimated that on some occasions over the last month, officers may have been called to as many as five incidents per day in the district of 1,875 students.

This has created concern among parents in the 14,000-resident borough, who have phoned their elected officials, met with Mayor James Maley, blasted social-media message boards, and even launched a petition calling on the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office to “stop mandated criminal investigation of elementary school students.”

The increased police involvement follows a May 25 meeting among the Collingswood Police Department, school officials, and representatives from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, where school officials and police both said they were told to report to police any incidents that could be considered criminal, including what Police Chief Kevin Carey called anything “as minor as a simple name-calling incident that the school would typically handle internally.”

The police and schools were also advised that they should report “just about every incident” to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, Carey said.

Previously, the school district, following the state’s Memorandum of Agreement Between Education and Law Enforcement Officials, had only reported incidents it deemed serious, like those involving weapons, drugs, or sexual misconduct. Both Carey and School Board President David Routzahn described the protocol set forth after that May meeting as a significant change in procedure.

Several parents said they consider the recent police involvement not only ridiculous but harmful.

Megan Irwin, who has two daughters who have attended Collingswood public schools and who teaches first grade in Pennsauken, said the police had been called to deal with behavior the schools could easily have handled.

“Some of it is just typical little-kid behavior,” Irwin said. “Never in my years of teaching have I ever felt uncomfortable handling a situation or felt like I didn’t know how to handle a situation.”

As an elementary school teacher, isn’t dealing with these sort of incidents a key part of the job? Why are school administrators taking such tasks away from where they belong, with the teachers?

And Pam Gessert, a Collingswood resident who works as a school counselor in Burlington County, said that because teachers have the best relationships with students, they are most qualified to determine what happened in a particular incident.

Let’s discuss how ridiculous this is from a couple of angles. First off, we don’t even know what the kid said, and if it was in fact racially offensive. According to the article, “another student exclaimed that the remark was racist,” so what was actually said? Did the teacher actually hear the comment? It’s possible one kid merely decided to call it racist knowing the other kid would get in trouble. I’m not saying this is what happened, but it’s happened before.

For example, recall the case of Ethan Chaplin as highlighted in the 2014 post, New Jersey Threatens to Take 13-Year-Old Student From His Father Due to “Non-Conforming Behavior”:

This is the story of Ethan Chaplin, who back in April was twirling a pencil in his seventh grade classroom in Vernon, NJ. One of the class bullies saw an opportunity to be a jerk and yelled: “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie.”
Rather than demonstrating any sort of common sense, the teacher apparently had a panic attack and reported him, which resulted in a two-day suspension.

Amazingly, the saga manages to get even worse. Just today, we find out that New Jersey is threatening to take Ethan away from his father. Incredibly, the state is claiming that the prior psychological evaluation wasn’t sufficient and more testing needs to be done. Since his father Michael is pushing back, the loss of custodianship has been threatened. Absolutely insane.

It’s interesting that both these incidents occurred in New Jersey, but I digress. The sort of thing that happened to Ethan Chaplin is bound to happen when kids recognize that adults will have a panic attack if anyone purportedly says something racist or twirls a pencil in a threatening manner. That’s what little kids do from time to time, but let’s move on.

Let’s assume this nine year old did indeed make a racially charged comment about a brownie. Why in the world should the police ever be involved in something like this. Teachers are now so scared about losing their jobs if they don’t call 911 for every little incident, they are forced to treat toddlers like prison inmates.

It’s absolutely mind-boggling that this could actually happen. Did the school administrators not think about the kind of long-term psychological damage this sort of thing might do to the children? The only lesson these kids learned is that for everyday mischief little kids have engaged in since the beginning of time, a person with a gun, badge and ability to lock you away in a cell is just a phone call away. All because a nine year old made a comment about a brownie.

Any society that puts up with this crap for long is doomed to irrelevance.


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kokoda
kokoda

The police and schools were also advised that they should report “just about every incident” to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, Carey said.

This adds to the importance of the police (for an increased budget and power), plus the same goes for the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. It has nothing to do with safety, racism, or any other social connection.

Gayle
Gayle

During the last few years I taught 7th grade (well into the Obama administration), I experienced two identical incidents that played out as follows: Well-earned negative consequences were handed down to a disruptive Hispanic boy. “You ‘re a racist!” echoed across the classroom. I ignored and went about my business. Days later when a third disciplinary response was needed, I was subjected to the same taunt for a third time. I publicly and calmly said, “It’s possible I am racist. And if you call me a racist one more time, I am arranging a meeting between you, me, and the principal so that you can describe to him my racist behaviors.” End of problem.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Meanwhile in Russia: comment image

And the Middle East: comment image

Any question about who will win if or when we tangle?

kokoda
kokoda

Surely the ‘men’ in the red high heels could surprise everyone.

Stucky

In a country full of shitfuk shitholes, I submit that NJ leads the list.

We need a new Constitution to accommodate dumbass NJ school administrators.

Stucky

Truly amazing WTF news from Sweden.

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At last Swedish authorities are doing something about the epidemic of rapes perpetuated by the vast numbers of Islamic welfare colonists the government has been importing from the Third World:

A recent Swedish press release warns that groping is a crime. In it, the country’s national police chief Dan Eliasson said: “No one should have to accept sexual molestation. So do not grope. And if you are groped, report it to the police.” …

The press release announced that police intend to equip young women with wristbands with the slogan “don’t touch me”. This will happen over the summer, at festivals and other events for young people. “By wearing these wristbands,” Sweden’s police chief said, “young women will be able to make a stand”.

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hahahaha This is how Sweden makes a stand …. by having women wear wristbands ……. which, the article says, are written in Swedish ….. which mooslimfuks don’t read.

We’ll get there soon enough.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/30/wristbands-stop-sex-attacks/

Stucky

HEY! SWEDISH ASSHOLES!!!

THIS IS HOW YOU TEACH WOMEN TO MAKE A STAND

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Stucky

Elementary students will be taught transgender theory – the notion that gender is a “social construct” rather than a biological reality – beginning in kindergarten, under new educational standards quietly adopted by Washington state.

By fifth grade, teachers will “promote” solutions to combat attitudes the state sees as lacking “respect” for homosexuals and transgender people.

The indoctrination program launches with the beginning of the 2017 school year.

In kindergarten, according to the new guidelines, students as young as five should “understand there are many ways to express gender.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/washington-state-to-teach-transgender-ideology-in-kindergarten

rhs jr
rhs jr

Cut their funding OFF!

ASIG
ASIG

It’s a totally different world. High school for me was over 50 years ago. In those four years there was only one black kid at that school the entire time. I don’t remember the kids name what I distinctly remember is that everyone called him “Buckwheat”. Today that would be a problem that could be blown into God only knows how big of an issue. Back then it was no problem at all. Whenever someone addressed him with “Hey Buckwheat” he reacted to that the same as if they had said “Hey Buddy” he never took it as an offence. He was a friendly kid and everyone liked him. Today he would be brainwashed into believing that he was being disrespected. Did racism exist back then, yeah, so what? Is what we have now better? I don’t think so.

Gayle
Gayle

Stucky

I just returned for visiting a friend in the Seattle area for a few days. Her daughter has been quite involved with homeschooling groups for some years. She told me that whereas most homeschoolers used to be Christians trying to educate their kids using a faith-based framework, now there are more and more secular parents taking up homeschooling. I’m sure the new ruling in Washington will significantly increase their ranks.

On the other hand, the crazed liberal parents will wholeheartedly endorse the propagandizing of their sweet babies.

Stucky

OK, so now we’re all pissed off and angry about this shit.

But, here’s the scary part ….. in 20 years these kids will be adults. Just try to imagine will be like then … and a few years after that when they have power.

Maybe then it will truly be as in the Days Of Noah, where men did evil continually …. until God destroyed them all. (Sorry for getting religious and wacky, but it does make me wonder.)

Full Retard
Full Retard

Exposing kids to these ideas that folks ordinarily only confronted in their teens when they could experiment and decide if they like being homos or lezzies, making kids decide these things without knowing the Christian teachings; in the end, new-thought will preclude judgement. Not to mention the fact that you have to pay for your kid’s indoctrination.

lysander
lysander

Start making plans for when TSHTF. Make a list of names. Use google and other media devices to get addresses. Assholes and Quislings need an attitude adjustment and re-education in the worst way.

Fun Fact: Did you know that during Germany’s Third Reich it was illegal for a married man to hold hands with his wife in public if either of them were in uniform? This is how fascism works. It grinds you down with its penchant for little details.

Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners. George Carlin did a bit on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkhUivqzWv0

C.King
C.King

If my children were school age now I would never send them to these Hellholes.When will parents start to keep them home in protest?

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