We are all the same race: The human one. Everything else is cultural, upbringing and personal decisions. Colour is just colour, it's not race. I am stressing this upfront -- again -- because I am going to come down hard on a mother who is taking on the Toronto School Board for subjecting her son to "cruel and unusual punishment" because he was made to sit outside the classroom for bloodying one of his classmates.
The kid who did the bloodying was six and because teachers and school officials can't ignore classroom fights that result in bodily harm, the kid was given what amounts to a "time out". Remember being made to stand in the hall when you disrupted the class? Exactly.
Cue the racist outrage. The mother then took her fury and wrath to something called the 'Parents of Black Students' advocacy group -- a new one to me, but why am I not surprised? Naturally, the head of the group went postal, alerted the media and hit the airwaves. What did the school board do? Well, of course, they suspended the principal, vice-principal and teacher, thus neutering, knee-capping and blighting their reputations forever.
What is wrong with people??!! Why is anything that has to do with people of colour automatically "racist"? If a student transgresses the rules, there must be consequences -- regardless of colour. But no, if the kid's Black, the immediate reflex is racism. That should never be, but that barn door was shut long ago.
This mother, egged on by the head of the advocacy group, actually put a listening device into the jeans of the kid so she could "prove" racism. Whaaaaaat??!! You're coaching a six-year-old to spy and mistrust authority figures in the school?!! What'll that teach the kid? That all authority must be railed against and not heeded? Is she raising a future delinquent? Certainly a distinct possibility, in my view.
"We prefer to believe the child," said the cocky advocacy head when faced with evidence the child had not been not locked in a dark room, as he had claimed, but rather put in the hall. The question I have is, why do so many people desperately want to come to Canada, mainly Toronto, yet when they settle here, choose to challenge and work against the system, thus undermining what they wanted to benefit from in the first place,. Then, to top it off, why do they go postal-public? Their Andy Warhol 15 minutes?
Pierce Morgan had two interesting guests on his feed the other day. Both Black, one accused Morgan of raging racism because he had called out someone on his behaviour who happened to be Black., while the other, also Black, took the position that not everything is about race; it's about behaviour. When Pierce challenged the first guest to give concrete examples of where he had been racist, none were forthcoming because there were none. See, that's what I'm talking about.
Remember when any trouble you caused at school was automatically your fault? Remember when teachers were respected members of the community and supported by parents? The daughter of a friend of mine is a teacher. She has been subjected to students who pull her hair, slap her, spit on her and disobey on a daily basis. What do the parents do? March right into the principal's office and blame the teacher. (They might want to actually parent, instead of letting violent video games take over.)
That's just wrong, but it's the norm these days. Anyone want to be a teacher in rough downtown Toronto? Didn't think so. Wouldn't it be nice if classrooms were left to the professionals -- not highjacked by meddling, unqualified, disgruntled parents. Too bad the tail keeps wagging the dog.
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