7-year-old branded 'racist' for asking student about skin colour

CDNBear

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What if our investigation concludes that the incident was not
racist?
If the conclusion is that the incident was not racist, it should still be
recorded internally but not reported back to Children’s Services. Use the
comment section of the Incident Log to note this. A lack of clear evidence
in itself does not deny the reality of the experience for the victim. The
situation may need monitoring.
http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/media/CSY_racistincidentsschool.pdf

Now this is for the Portsmouth district, but from what I understand, it's all part and parcel of a National outline.

As I thought, there is a mechanism in place to investigate and determine whether or not an act of racism was committed.
 

shadowshiv

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Well that's their job though, to sit around and pontificate and be "the correct way of looking at things".

Meanwhile the rest of us just go to work, spend time with our friends and families, generally get along fairly well with one another and keep society chugging along.

That is until someone stops us to tell us how we have it all wrong.

It sounds like SJP would have fit in perfectly.;) LOL!
 

mentalfloss

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PC here an a PC there!

Ol' Mc PC had a farm, an' it's run by the labour party.

In the next scene, the honorable and good at heart, right, played by Indiana Jones, saves the day by shooting the turban guy.

Let me know when I go off script here.
 

EagleSmack

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Sure, explaining to a little girl about people coming out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago isn't going to work. But why people are different colours and speak different languages has not been explained by science. I doesn't matter, we're all just people.

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The languages are pretty interesting too. Look at the US and Canada. Our accents are so different yet for the most part, our English speaking ancestors came from the UK and Ireland. We sound nothing like them. Canadian accents, Southern Accents, Boston Accents (I have a deep one), NY City accents... how did that happen?

I have older cousins in Newfoundland who are very hard to understand. When I met one of my Grandmother's elderly cousin I could not understand him at all. AT ALL! I even told him...

"No disrespect Uncle... but I cannot understand a word you are saying."

My cousin had to translate!
 

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He wasn't branded by teachers. He was branded by a policy. Blame the policy makers.
Actually, I posted the policy. There is a mechanism, by which teachers and administrators can assess whether or not an actual racist act was committed. Final say is in their hands.

Obviously, your admitted stupidity caused you to miss that fact.
 

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He wasn't branded by teachers. He was branded by a policy. Blame the policy makers.

"Policies" don't make phone calls to parents requesting their presense at the school.



His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a ‘racist incident’.

She was then summoned to a meeting with Elliott, his teacher and the deputy head of Griffin Primary School in Hull.



Read more: Boy, 7, branded a racist for asking schoolmate: 'Are you brown because you come from Africa?' | Mail Online

Actually, I posted the policy. There is a mechanism, by which teachers and administrators can assess whether or not an actual racist act was committed. Final say is in their hands.

Obviously, your admitted stupidity caused you to miss that fact.

As with all the other facts he misses! :lol: (Haven't heard him expounding on the play of the Vancouver Canucks lately.................for some odd reason) :lol:
 

CDNBear

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"Policies" don't make phone calls to parents requesting their presense at the school.



His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a ‘racist incident’.

She was then summoned to a meeting with Elliott, his teacher and the deputy head of Griffin Primary School in Hull.



Read more: Boy, 7, branded a racist for asking schoolmate: 'Are you brown because you come from Africa?' | Mail Online
You're barking up the wrong tree if you think he'll admit he erred.