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[rollo]

Skoie would have a school system where the student population has a large percentage of visable minorities. I would not think that bigots are drawn to teaching and especially in that system. Captain Corea listed some possiblities and the teachers "picking' on a child is certainly one of them. But watching an injured child crawl that far in ice and mud. if you were so bigoted that you could watch that and not do something your bigotry would have spotted before hand and you would not have been teaching.

[jrwhite82]

Let's also not forget that the article is only stating the story from the view of the mother. A bump the size of a tennis ball is huge and on a 6 year old is enormous. A tennis ball. 200 feet. That's pretty far to crawl. I'd imagine that would take quite a while especially with a broken leg. So long where the other students must have been standing out there in the cold for a while or he was left by himself because it would have taken him so long to make the distance.

A flair for the dramatic or the truth? I don't know. Again, not defending the teacher because if a child does fall and is hurt you need to report it and act. Even if he does cry wolf every day, report it. It is ultimately your ass.

But I think this tale is a little on the tall side.

[Stout]

Turns out Skokie is something of a magnet for racial tension...even if you are Korean-

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/14655/skokie-becomes-a-dirty-word-again-after-22-years/


NEW YORK -- For many American Jews, the word "Skokie" stirs up memories of the 1978 First Amendment case that upheld a neo-Nazi group's right to hold a rally in that Illinois community, home to numerous Holocaust survivors.

The episode even spawned a movie, starring Danny Kaye.

So it may be precisely to capitalize on Skokie's symbolism that the Ku Klux Klan plans to demonstrate Dec. 16, on Shabbat, in the Chicago suburb some of them describe as "Jewtown."

The KKK event, announced by the Mercer, Wisc., chapter, will be held on the steps of the Cook County Courthouse.

As the courthouse is county property, a local Skokie permit is not necessary. Thirty to 40 Klansmen and other white supremacists from the region are expected to attend.

Outraged, Chicago Jewry is reacting.

"History has shown us that evil and hateful words, if unchecked, all too often lead to evil deeds and hate crimes," said Richard Hirschhaut, Midwest regional director for the Anti-Defamation League.

"We have to raise our voices against those who would divide our community and attempt to sow fear," said Hirschhaut, who previously held a similar post in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Even the most pathetic sociopath who spews a message of bigotry and hate ought not be dismissed as unimportant, lest their message reach and potentially influence others."

The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and local Skokie Jews have thrown their support behind a "Peace and Harmony" rally that the Skokie Commission on Human Relations has scheduled for the following day.

Hirschhaut said he succeeded in dissuading the Evanston Ecumenical Action Council, composed mostly of Christian denominations, from confronting the Klan. Instead, the council agreed to join the Sunday rally.

The ADL also is endorsing another reprise of "Operation Lemonade," a four-year-old project that, like a walk-a-thon, cleverly raises money based on each minute a hate group demonstrates and donates it to organizations that work toward neutralizing such groups.

Skokie -- now home to large communities of Asians, Latinos and African-Americans -- is still scarred by a shooting spree in the region 17 months ago. A follower of the white supremacist World Church of the Creator gunned down the black basketball coach of Northwestern University and a South Korean college student, and injured six Orthodox Jews on their way to synagogue.

The coach, Ricky Byrdsong, and two of the Jewish victims were Skokie residents.

One woud assume in such an environment that teachers would be especially sensitive to any situation that could be perceived as racist and on guard to prevent or remedy any/all incidents.

So to let that kid just grovel on the ground, even if for argument's sake he had been a problem kid or whatever, just doesn't make any sense when you take into account the extent of his injuries...so long as the teacher is genuinely concerned for all of his/her students.

In any case, it's obvious race is an issue with a capital R in Skokie. When it gets to that level, it's inevitable that some people become divided on the issue. Maybe to assume that all teachers in that town are on board with ensuring racial equality is a little naive.


with photos-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082643/Teachers-watched-boy-6-slip-snow-forced-crawl-class-broken-leg.html

[jrwhite82]

So your news source about racism in this Illinois town is an article about a demonstration aimed at Jews from 2000 sponsored by a KKK chapter from a different state, that talks about an ethnic/religious issue from the 70's and a story about a person who was shot in 1998?

This whole issue of racism in Skokie revolves around anti-Semitism. Are you suggesting this boy is an Indian Jew?

And you connect the dots to a terrible teacher who let an Indian boy crawl on the ground with a broken leg. OKAAAAAAY.

[Stout]

[jrwhite82]

So the teacher is a white supremasist? Source?

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

[Stout]

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

[Captain Corea]

[Stout]

Obviously at the end of the day, none of us were there to witness the incident.

In a town where there have been white supremist marches and racially-charged murders, I submit that the scenario might have had something to do with race.

Or one could go with one of Captain's, "He was a problem student", "Teacher was bitchy/lazy" et. al scenarios.

[Captain Corea]

My home city of a million plus has had white supremist marches and racially charged murders, yet I wouldnt presume that any/every incident that happens there is because of race.

Could it be a factor? For sure!

Is it?

I don't see any evidence pointing to that of yet.

[Stout]

[rollo]

I would not discount totally what Stout is saying but how many large cities do not have racist incidents. that does not mean all citizens, teachers are racist. I think I am going to go with lazy , stupid and really negligent on this one. Also Mom's story sounds a little over the top.