High School Girl Arrested for "Racism"

Bigun · Post by **Bigun** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:46 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

I don't see that as racism, I see it as common sense. How can someone help you with schoolwork if they can't communicate with you?

Even if it was racism.... being sent to jail?!?!

footprintzinthesand · Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:43 am

I agree completely. That's just preposterous..... :shock:

gothic_spleen · Post by **gothic_spleen** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:57 pm

political correctness....can be good, but thats BULLSHIT!!!!!

Shadow Of The Fox · Post by **Shadow Of The Fox** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:59 am

That's just sheer stupidity!

FreyaFire · Post by **FreyaFire** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:13 pm

Since when did the police get involved in these types of school matters???? What happened to DETENTION? Or parent-teacher conferences? Even they might be extreme in this situation...

Mother Mo · Post by **Mother Mo** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:54 pm

"We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards people and pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."

And the first reaction is to punish, not to teach better communication skills or offer to be a bridge for the parties to use to better understand each other. Just punish. That's that caring & tolerance in action for ya.

cutelittlepsycho20 · Post by **cutelittlepsycho20** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:01 pm

ARRESTED how ghey is that? Man if it was like that around here there wouldnt be anyone in highschool cuz they'd all be in jail for racsist comments. lol.

:-x

oh well....

karmakaze · Post by **karmakaze** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:56 am

i bet however that she will wind up with a pretty good sized check when she sues them.

footprintzinthesand · Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:33 pm

karmakaze wrote:i bet however that she will wind up with a pretty good sized check when she sues them.

No shit... unless their system is just that fucked......

gothic_spleen · Post by **gothic_spleen** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:12 pm

humanponygirl213 wrote:
karmakaze wrote:i bet however that she will wind up with a pretty good sized check when she sues them.

No shit... unless their system is just that fucked......

whats sad is the system in europe is that FUCKED

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:31 pm

gothic_spleen wrote:
humanponygirl213 wrote:
karmakaze wrote:i bet however that she will wind up with a pretty good sized check when she sues them.

No shit... unless their system is just that fucked......

whats sad is the system in europe is that FUCKED

Don't worry. America is catching up by leaps and bounds.

Coor · Post by **Coor** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:44 pm

I do think that punishment was warrented. I mean, what's next all of the Asian students have to sit by themselves? That doesn't promote English language skills, it tells them that it's ok to speak their native language and bullshit through Engish. MUCH like the problem we have today. I agree that police action was radical, but detention and a plain "Sit your ass down. I am the teacher you are the student!" policy would have worked as well. The next thing you know students will refuse to help anyone less "capable" than themselves.

necrosynthesis · Post by **necrosynthesis** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:31 pm

imo that should always be one's choice. thought policing is as bad or worse than simple anti-semitism.

footprintzinthesand · Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:59 pm

necrosynthesis wrote:imo that should always be one's choice. thought policing is as bad or worse than simple anti-semitism.

True, true...

It's nobody's fault really for not knowing a language other than their own. If they can't understand it, then that gives good reason to notify someone that it's not something that they can understand... I mean, isn't that one option if you can't comprehend something? How can they learn anything if they can't understand what's being said? If it was really such a huge problem, the student should've been taught that language, without being reprimanded for it..... That's just fucking ridiculous.....

Enlil · Post by **Enlil** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:08 am

This is idiotic, both because this clearly has nothing to do with racism, and because racism, per se, shouldn't be illegal -- racism is bullshit, but the law has no business criminalizing anyones opinion no mater how ridiculous

How do they get "racism" here anyway? Its purely a mater of appearances, the coincidence that the other students happened to be a different race. There's no racism here, the whole thing is fucked up.