Article in Calvert Newspaper
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johnjrval424
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Doesn't sound like this one will amount to anything - only the mother and father were standing on the corner with signs protesting. Rev. Sharpton must have been elsewhere that day and Jesse Jackson is still attending all the political swearing-in parties.
I think the school did their homework and are prepared to defend themselves. It was a ridiculous claim at best - the parents said they had retained counsel yet no one has stepped forward yet as their "attorney."
I think the school did their homework and are prepared to defend themselves. It was a ridiculous claim at best - the parents said they had retained counsel yet no one has stepped forward yet as their "attorney."
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StrwberryKisses
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johnjrval424 said:Doesn't sound like this one will amount to anything - only the mother and father were standing on the corner with signs protesting. Rev. Sharpton must have been elsewhere that day and Jesse Jackson is still attending all the political swearing-in parties.
I think the school did their homework and are prepared to defend themselves. It was a ridiculous claim at best - the parents said they had retained counsel yet no one has stepped forward yet as their "attorney."
I totally agree. It drives me crazy when people act this way when nothing really happened. I'm glad the school is standing there ground. I don't feel this has anything to due with racism it has everything to due with stupidity.
Tina2001aniT
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This disturbs me GREATLY.......
I'd like to get my hands on those parents....
I'd like to get my hands on those parents....
So this little girl is the only black student at that school?
Well, the parents were obviously looking for trouble - they said themselves that they "knew" something like this would happen. That it took them this long, and they could only come up with this lamer complaint, says something pretty positive about Southern Middle School.cattitude said:
hvp05
Methodically disorganized
I had the same thought.MMDad said:
When I was ~7 I fell while ice skating and broke my left wrist. My mom did not take me to the doctor because she did not think it was broken. I eventually did go in for a check-up... several weeks later. Sooo should I sue my mom?
I also liked how the father attempted to inhibit the investigation. And how he told the anonymous parent that their opinion is their opinion, but his opinion is fact. Way to go for the truth, buddy.
cattitude
My Sweetest Boy
vraiblonde said:Well, the parents were obviously looking for trouble - they said themselves that they "knew" something like this would happen. That it took them this long, and they could only come up with this lamer complaint, says something pretty positive about Southern Middle School.
It was actually St. Leonard Elementary. And yes, there were looking.
AK-74me
"Typical White Person"
vraiblonde said:Well, the parents were obviously looking for trouble - they said themselves that they "knew" something like this would happen. That it took them this long, and they could only come up with this lamer complaint, says something pretty positive about Southern Middle School.
As soon as I read "they knew", I knew what this cas was all about.
johnjrval424
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AK-74me said:
Yep - trying to cure the "fact" that they spent too much on Christmas gifts this year by digging into the County's deep pockets.
Hessian
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Bathsheba?
What were they thinking?
Homeschooling ....there is a real can of worms.
Over half of the Homeschoolers I have been in contact with have been excellent. Motivated, well-read, good achievers.
HOWEVER: afro-centric homeschooling---that is a tremendous dis-service to the children and they GROW a very big chip on their shoulder. It might even be classified as brainwashing.
What were they thinking?
Homeschooling ....there is a real can of worms.
Over half of the Homeschoolers I have been in contact with have been excellent. Motivated, well-read, good achievers.
HOWEVER: afro-centric homeschooling---that is a tremendous dis-service to the children and they GROW a very big chip on their shoulder. It might even be classified as brainwashing.
queencity28
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Hessian said:
I have to admit, I was tripping of the name Bathsheba myself. The poor kid will get crapped on about her name if anything.
Coventry17
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Hessian said:
So what kind of schooling would you prescribe? The child is black, the parents are black and most of their friends for the rest of their lives will be black. Just because they don't want to perpetuate the normal ANGLO-centric education that is the norm doesn't make them bad people. The problem here is not the parents', or the child's for that matter, race. Yes, they are bringing race into it; not because they're black, but because they're stupid. Was the school wrong? Yes. A child shouldn't have been sent back out to the playground with a broken wrist. She shouldn't have been "offered" a bed, or chair, or chaise lounge. She should have been DIRECTED to stay in the nurse's office until the parents could be contacted. I broke my arm in fifth grade and the only sick bed was occupied. I sat in the library with the librarian (who was also an EMT, coincidentally) until my mom could come and take me to the doctor. I notice most people here want to jump all over the parents because they're black. I can forgive them for being paranoid about being discriminated against; this is the most racially prejudiced area I have ever lived in.