Deceit in the 21st Century

[Gonzo]

My kid has inadvertently discovered the curse of political correctness or rather I must teach it to him. The fault lies with his public school. Irony is, his best friend is black. Talking to his friends, my son says, "all the trouble-makers are black". I asked what he meant. "The kids that get in trouble are black. They are always in trouble."

His school, a magnet school for the arts, in the inner-city is about 60% black. They have all kinds of "race isn't an issue" programs & related things. However, he has noticed, by the third grade, that kids who misbehave, get in trouble. Black kids who misbehave frequently are treated with "kid gloves" (a quote directly from a teacher to my wife about a evil child with a single-mom who is a racism baiter). They are allowed to get away with fighting, back-talking the teacher (in a "sailors" language), basically whatever, whenever. These kids have been problems since kidergarten. Most of them have gone to the same school (this one) together with my kid.

Now, I'm stuck teaching him social deceit (political correctness) so he doesn't have to fight at school when he see's these kinds of miscreants & their socialistic adult mentors using double standards. Outrageous. If I choose to say nothing, he will end up on an "ass kicking list" from the bullies with racial bigotry ingrained from their idiotic parents. Talk about a fine line. Justice on one hand & bigotry on the other.

 

[Justintime]

sigh, we had the same thing, us and white kids would get suspended or a visit to detention for something a black kid woulda done and just received a verbal warning, one kid even busted a guys hand with a mallet in shop and got 3 weeks suspension, i'm sure we'd have gotten a much harsher suspension or even faced an expulsion

 

[habaneroman]

Maybe things are just starting to even out.

When I was a kid, whenever a white kid and a minority kid got in a fight, the minority kid always got suspended, while the white kid got to stay in school.

I know that double standards and reverse discrimination isn't right.

No discrimination is right.

But now you have an idea of how minorities have felt for years, and it's not fair. It wasn't fair then, and it isn't fair now.

In my opinion, things have swung 180 degrees. Administrators have made dealing with race issues one sided.

Nothing is one sided.

Admins have to start looking at things from both perspectives, which I don't think they ever have.

There have been changes, but not for the better.

They need to keep working at it, and get it right.

 

[fury]

Indeed. Political correctness pisses me off. I still vividly remember the day in elementary school when I saw someone yanked up away from the lunch table and tossed into isolation for praying to himself.

 

[Gonzo]

habaneroman, I was never part of a racilal exploiting crowd. Same with my wife. My kid won't be allowed to stereotype in my house. I hate everybody equally. What I'm pissed about is that I have to teach my son to lie in order to get along. All the years of "Don't lie" are now, "Don't lie, except...". I have zreo tolerance for that crap. Call a spade a spade & let justice prevail. That & the simple fact that the white kids from our or previous to our era NEVER, EVER stood up in the teachers face & said something like "Whatcha gonna do bitch?" That was grounds for expulsion & a good ass kicking, at home & school.

fury, did the kids parents win the lawsuit? I mean, the school can't proclaim nor participate in a religious activity but they have no business interupting someone quietly pursuing theirs. It flies in the face of the first amendment.

 

[fury]

I don't know, I didn't follow it that much (I had no idea that it warranted a lawsuit in the first place at the time).

I'd assume either the parents were satisfactory with whatever settlement they managed to pull off with the school, or his parents didn't care, because he still went there the next day.