Students at Newton North are planning to rally Friday at the school after social media posts circulated about students using a racial epithet in school and on social media throughout the past few weeks. In the meantime, the school and the district are looking at ways to address the issue district wide, Newton Patch reports. There’s also a Newton TAB story here.
North students organizing rally Friday in response to hate incidents
by Village 14 | Feb 13, 2020 | Newton, Newton North | 8 comments
Diversity, Inclusion, Respect, Integrity, Dignity begins at Home. NOBODY should ever be using racial and or religious epithets in any way, shape, form. This whole country is an multi cultural melting pot of different backgrounds, nationalities, religions, races, beliefs, ways of doing things, customs, and stuff
Unless the parents/guardians are involved in the march, nothing is going to change.
This starts at home…
I just read an article that talks about the documented increase in school bullying as a result of the rhetoric originating in the White House. Respect and tolerance is a discussion that needs to be happening everywhere, in every context, all the time.
This discussion starts at home and continues in school and the larger community. The Newton North student organizers and rally participants are walking the walk. Good for them.
And bravo to my former student, Andrew.
Will the NTA union president be Speaking at the event Fri?
Agreed this starts at home, but every little bit helps. Go North!
Agree with everyone’s comments – except of course the passive aggressive one from Fred.
It’s great that most of our high school students recognize and look for ways to banish bigotry and bullying in all of its forms. It does start at home except when it doesn’t and a rebellious or lonely, vulnerable teen becomes enamored with a bigoted peer group that encourages her/him to join them – playing to a sense of belonging. Peers tend to influence teens’ behavior more than their parents, at least for a time.
A child first expresses what s/he’s learned by mimicking parents or others in the home and as Joan Belle Isle points out, there is a “documented increase in school bullying as a result of the rhetoric originating in the White House.” This nonsense has emboldened the worst of us.
Fred,
I smell subtext, Fred. I fully contend that you should air your GRIEVANCE. However, if he were to speak, what should he say, opine, or address?