JENA 6

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Agreed that more should have been done.

Also, if this wasn't treated as a hate crime (federal statutes states that due to circumstances it isn't) it's still grounds for the charge of aggravated harrassment.

All parties should have sat down and discussed this....what makes it worse is that some of the students TRIED to resolve this peacefully and were denied by the school board. What does that teach them about resolving differences?

I remember in elementary school when we would have "salt and pepper fights" during recess or after school. Those usually happened when President Reagan made some big announcement, regarding employment or the war on drugs, which caused some white parents to talk bad about racial and ethnic minorities in front of their kids (i.e. "those people are criminal with no jobs but they're trying to take ours" or "the war on drugs is about those people in the inner city"). Then the kids would come to school with that nonsense and do "kid-like" stuff like denying access to a cafeteria seat to express their parents' opinions. They didn't know what the hell they were really doing but knew they were supposed to be mad at someone for something and were supposed to protect what's "rightfully theirs" to keep "others" from getting access to it.

In other words, kids don't get this from no where. That applies to the racial stuff and the violent response to it. Kids get almost everything they do from adults.