“Anyone who disagrees is racist themselves.”
Of course they are. Britain is serving these stories up like Jell-o shots at a frat party and I am thoroughly drunk. Have to quote this one at length:
Toddlers should be taught about racism and singled out for criticism if they have racist attitudes, a Government-funded advisory group said yesterday.
It told nursery teachers, playgroup leaders and childminders to record and report every racist incident involving children as young as three.
These could include saying ‘Yuk’ about unfamiliar food.
Even babies should not be ignored in the hunt for racism because they can ‘recognise different people in their lives’, a new guide for nurseries and child care centres said.
The instructions for staff in charge of pre-school children in day care have been produced by the National Children’s Bureau, which receives £12million a year, mostly through taxpayer-funded organisations.
The new 366-page guide, Young Children and Racial Justice, warned that ‘racist incidents among children in early years settings-tend to be around name-calling-casual thoughtless comments, and peer group relationships’.
It said such incidents could include children using words like ‘blackie’, ‘Pakis’, ‘those people’ or ‘they smell’.
Children might also ‘react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying “yuk”.’
Nursery staff are told: ‘No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist intent, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action.’
If children ‘reveal negative attitudes the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes’.
Nurseries are encouraged to report as many racist incidents as possible to local councils.…The guidance said that anyone who disagrees is racist themselves.
A boy of ten has already been taken to court for calling a mixed race 11-year-old ‘Paki’ and ‘Bin Laden’ in a school playground argument.
The pair subsequently made up and became friends again, yet the Crown Prosecution Service decided to go ahead because the victim’s mother made a complaint.
Oh for the love of dancing romance-goats.
I had to search the hoax sites to make sure this wasn’t a joke before I posted about it. Because, busting babies for “racism”? Seriously? Is that really where the PC parade route has ended up?
Good grief, it’d be idiotic enough if we were simply talking about adults. I don’t know about the rest of you, but if verbalizing a distaste for a plate full of tamales or the way various people smell makes me a racist, then I genuinely don’t give a shit and never will, just as I don’t have a problem with some leftist calling me a Nazi because I own handguns. It only proves how silly they are, and everybody benefits from that.
Setting the bar for racism so ridiculously low dilutes the meaning of the word to the point that it has no meaning at all. Particularly since the same criteria don’t apply to anyone who isn’t white and Western. Why is this simple logic so elusive to the Brits in charge of this stuff?
It’s fascinating to watch the PC psychopaths destroy their own aims so determinedly by reaching so far out into nonsense territory that no one takes them seriously anymore. Fools. In a few more years, the word “racism” will have about as much power and punch as the word “chickenlover,” and then what will they do? What will they bitch about? Simply being white and Western will become the real sin. Nevermind, it is already, and these babies and children will learn that very well.
I can’t wait to see what Britain is like in another 25 years. They’ll have a Crown Ministry of Instruction in Proper Muslim-Ass-Kissing. A Central London Racist Toddler Correctional Facility.
No doubt there’ll be a government hotline to report Anyone Who Disagrees and Is Thus a Racist, along with a Special Prosecutor For Children Who Don’t Like Moo Goo Gai Pan, and a Bureau to Monitor the Thoughtcrimes and Hatethink of Fetuses.
I’m pretty sure I’m not even joking.
What a terrific example of liberal fascism.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:17 pmI thought this was satire. Something from the Onion, perhaps??
What the fuck is wrong with the Brits?! Racist babies???? How do they stand for this foolishness long enough to pass laws about it?
Are there no sane men and women left in Britain? None, whatsoever?
July 7th, 2008 at 12:18 pmEngland needs a homeschooling revolution.
Meantime, not long ago, there was the Archbishop of Canterbury helpfully suggesting that adoption of at least some of sharia law by Great Britain is ‘unavoidable’ and ‘inevitable.’
He’s leading the retreat, so this comes as no surprise:
Yellow streak on the British flag?[HT Mark Steyn, of course!]
July 7th, 2008 at 12:19 pmNo kidding.
Good God. At least one person in the whole process had some common sense and decency.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:22 pmracist incidents -
six-month-old: “You’re not Mommy! Wah!”
six-month-old: “What’s this? Yuck!”
two years to any age: “You stink!”
tax-paid experts who should be doing stand-up comedy. “You say you’re not racist? That’s racist!”
July 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pmRegarding the spiciness, when The Boss and I were in England — about 17 years ago, so perhaps this is oudated
— we ordered pizza with ‘extra garlic.’ Couldn’t taste it.
July 7th, 2008 at 12:29 pmThose poor kids — their little British palates are just, well, British!
Anyone with a shred of experience knows that racial consciousness is simply not part of a toddler’s psychology. What’s on display here is yet another attempt to imprint racial guilt on the populace. Attacking kids this young is crime against innocence. Racism has become the original sin imprinted on all white people at birth. Confess and bow before the altar of political correctness! File under “religion.”
July 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm“Oh for the love of dancing romance-goats.”
This must be stolen, written into several scripts as a catch-phrase for a main character of a hit tv series, and brought into general pop culture.
….Do we know anyone who can do that?
July 7th, 2008 at 12:57 pmWe do - but I can guarantee that it will be canceled because it isn’t geared to the lowest common denominator - but you may be able to sneak it past the network suits if you use the term “Top” in the title to get it on the air in the first place.
Actually, let’s just skip it because I am tired of getting invested in shows just to have them canceled within the first 4 airings.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:05 pmOMG
What is the punishment for a toddler who uses the n-word? Or the M(uslim)-word?
Given that the adults in England aren’t even allowed to spank their children without legal repurcussions…what is the punishment?
And my point is this:
You tell parents…if your child behaves this way…beat the crap out of them.
And it will stop.
Liberals take every possible means of disciplining children from them, and then get upset and punish the children for offenses.
Idiotic.
If I used the word n***** towards another child in school, my mom would have known about it before I got home (since she was a teacher in the same school district), and I’d have gone to bed with a ruby red ASS.
All of this is a result of the liberal tendency towards “reasoning” with kids instead of laying down the law. It’s not the only result; they are too numerous to list.
I’m not advocating violence against children; I’m saying that actions have consequences. And I’m also saying that one of the tenets of parenthood is that a child should fear a parent as much as that parent fears God.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:18 pmExactly what I was going to say. Good book, by the way.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:25 pmI have always enjoyed, “Oh for the love of St. Darwin.”
July 7th, 2008 at 1:34 pmOh, now that stung. That had to sting.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pmI can feel it from here.
otcconan:
I agree with what you’re saying (and my mom would have found out before I got home even though she didn’t work. Funny how mom’s have their little network). However, a kid (toddler, gradeschool age, whatever) saying the n word is ACTUALLY racist. If a toddler who doesn’t know better says that word, they should definitely still get beat, so they know it’s bad. But the problem here is that what these people are trying to punish as racist or insensitive (*gag*) remarks are just absurd. Not only because a toddler doesn’t have that level of psychological development under their belts yet, but also because these people are full of shit.
But I also wonder how would a parent go about punishing a child for something retarded in a world where spanking doesn’t exist.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pmWords fail. For Chrisssakes they’re going after dogs and babies the whole damn country has gone mad.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pmThe English are either going to reconquer their country or go the way of the dodo.
BTW - how dare you call me “chickenlover,” you bee costumer.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pmWhat was that old Dr. Pepper song? I’m a pepper, he’s a pepper, wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too?
Just change pepper to racist because if saying you’re not a racist makes you a racist, then I’m a racist.
But since I admit I’m a racist then I must not be a racist so I’m ok. But if I think I’m ok then I must be wrong so I’m back to being a racist.
I think my head hurts.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pmSome professions never really go out of fashion. Only the names change. 350 years ago these folks would have been called witch hunters.
(Look for the mark! Look for the mark!)
July 7th, 2008 at 2:24 pmSo long England, that millenia of gifts to the world was nice, but I suppose it had to be thrown away eventually.
From the Magna Carta to Sharia, now that’s progress.
We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the air… we will prosecute your babies.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pmI ran this through snopes every which way I could think of hoping it was just an internet goof! No luck - Unbeleaveittobeaverable!
July 7th, 2008 at 2:32 pmAnd to think…My Grandfather in his very Irish Republican ways always referred to seeing England only as a bombsite…
Was actually right.
Because at this rate…no one will miss England except the Muslims as a stronghold of their islamofascism.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:50 pmWhen I come over to the US again in November I’m going to buy an AK47 and retreat to a cabin in the woods.
You can’t make me come back to this place, y’hear?!?
I claim asylum!
July 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pmFirst dogs are no good and now kids? It’s like W.C. Fields came up with this religion… ;oD
July 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
July 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pmotcconan, I hear you– my mom put up with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of backtalk and cusswords from us, but had we ever said the N-word in her presence, a mouthful of soap would have been the least of our worries.
And I once had a black art teacher who told the class that he’d better not hear the N word said by ANYONE, and that included the black students, because it was a matter of self-respect and he didn’t want his students disrespecting themselves.
On a similar note, one of my (very white) college classmates developed a habit of saying “what’s up, hooka?” in greeting her friends. I completely refused to be addressed that way, and after telling me how unreasonable I was being a couple of times, eventually she stopped.
Notice: it stopped where it was “at” in all 3 cases, with no one getting reported to the Thought Police. What a concept!!
July 7th, 2008 at 3:20 pmThese children will certainly be ready to be taken over by the jihadists. This would be just one more example of the imploding Euro civilization, Brit style, a la Mark Steyn’s book, “America Alone: The End of the World as we know it.”
Time to take it all the way up from the British version of Ali BenDover.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pmWe’ll be seeing it here soon folks. From what some of my (disgusted) teacher friends tell me, it’s already here.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:31 pmWasn’t it Lenin who identified education as one of the essential institutions to get control of to insure ‘proper’ thought? Somebody correct me if it was someone else.
What a joke. It’d be hysterical if it wasn’t so damn scary.
My son turned up his nose at sauerkraut the other day. Guess he hates Germans.
I can’t eat spicy food. Guess I hate most of the southern hemisphere, parts of Africa, India, and the Middle East.
Freakin’ hell. It’s time we stopped putting up with this crap and started taking back what’s ours.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pmIndeed, it IS here.
It is taught in ed schools as part of the BIGGEST activity in them—namely, “diversity.”
Just go to the websites of a few ed schools and see.
Ed students are taught blather about how “We are all the same” and that the objective of education is “social justice” and “equality” (but ed perfessers are way to stupid to get it that justice and equality are not necessarily compatible).
Ed students are then taught to be mindful of their students’ “social dispositions,” and to cite students who “demonstrate” the wrong (politically incorrect) dispositions.
Sufficiently “deviant” behavior is treated with harsher measures.
The whole thing is identical in aim and process to witch hunts in Europe and later here. Teachers—already indoctinated to see political correctness as a virtue, not as totalitarian–are all too eager to play the role of witch pricker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricking
It will only get worse.
The only question is whether our civilization dies with a bang or with a whimper.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9824/hollow.html
Of course, if parents stood on their hind legs at PTA and also at school board meetings, and began screaming–or merely suing—we could stop it dead.
Just as the witch craze here stopped dead when the wives of the magistrates themselves were accused of being witches.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:51 pmI guess this stands as long as your culinary tradition doesn’t include the use of pork crackles and lard.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pmI *LOVE* chicken.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pmRacist toddlers? Hmmm … sounds pretty hellish to me. Guess Orwell was right: “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” Too bad about England, I used to admire her. I’ve had about all I can stand of utopian idealists.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pmI hate the Chinese. Aside from being communist freaks, they’re ugly and they smell bad.
Love their food though.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pmHow are they looking for these food reactions?
Are they cooking up spicy foods onsite to feed to toddlers and watch for the reaction?
Do they take photos and compare them to some sort of guide to determine the degree of racism?
Can a baby be mildly racist or even totally racist, based on the teacher’s evaluation?
And lastly, someone needs to send them a clip from America’s Funniest Home Videos….the one’s where babies are introduced to new foods and spew them all over.
Dumbasses.
July 7th, 2008 at 4:57 pmToddlers do not understand “racism”.
Still, children come out of the womb with a penchant for discrimination, not bigotry.
There’s a world of difference. C’mon, even the Christians don’t hold children accountable for their sins until they’re about 10 years old.
Just proves that there’s no religion as scary as your government “minders.”
July 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pmUh oh. My 2 year old doesn’t like sauerkraut either. But he’s 1/4 German, so does that make it excusable???
He also doesn’t like hot dogs. Does that make him a homophobe?
July 7th, 2008 at 5:24 pmOnly if it’s a footlong — wrapped in a bun and smothered in mayonnaise. Then the Rainbow Patrol’s coming after your ass for re-education.
Otherwise, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pmyeah yeah, we’re all properly outraged at this latest nanny-state mind-control incident. but consider: the asswipes who thought up this *profoundly* suicidal policy and then implemented it on the backs of the kiddies don’t answer to us. they don’t answer to the public. they don’t answer to anyone but themselves. they “work for the government”. they can’t be fired. they’re largely anonymous - stupid regulations don’t carry a signature - so they can’t be identified. they’re *completely and totally immune from our little complaints*, and **they don’t give a rats arse if the proles don’t like the policies being implemented.** they are out-of-control mad dogs, and like any mad dog, all they care about is advancement of their agenda. “sit down, shut up, OBEY, or we’ll prosecute you.”
how is that different from here?
more to the point, how does one deal with a mad dog? do you try to reason with it? complain to its boss? does that work? no? what DOES work?
July 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pmHere’s a great apology to the muslims …
July 7th, 2008 at 6:41 pmWhat do you do with a mad dog?
You SHOOT it.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:52 pmI told my oldest son about Jackie Robinson, the Dodgers player who was the first openly black player in Major League Baseball.
I got a call from his (black) baseball coach, that I should stop teaching racism to my son. My son apparently said that blacks couldn’t play major league ball.
I asked: “Have you ever heard of Jackie Robinson? They named a park after him down the street.”
July 7th, 2008 at 8:26 pmHe says “Of course. First black major league player.”
I asked: “What about before then?”
His response: “Blacks couldn’t play major league baseball”
Me: “So didn’t you just say what my son said?”
Him: “Yes but…”
Me: “But nothing. I told him about Jackie Robinson yesterday, when we were at Jackie Robinson Park.”
Him: “Oh.”
Me: “I accept your apology.”
Yes, and that’s precisely the point.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pmI think I have an idea about how we can deal with a couple of problems very easily.
First to stop terrorists from hijacking airplanes, simply give every passenger their choice of a machete or a Louisville Slugger as they board the plane.
Next, to vanquish racism we can start by attaching the most common racist name to each other every time we address each other. For example. When someone speaks to me they can refer to me as WAP Guido. We can call … say Obama Nigger Obama, We can call ordinary vanilla white people Honkies as in Honky John or White Trash Mary. Greaser Pedro, Kraut Arnold, Kike Ezra, Chink Chinese, Kamikaze Japs and so on. We can go further and use attributes of various people such as Tightwad Scotsman, Drunken Irishman, Frog Quebecer, Camel Jockey Arabs. Stupid fucking member of parliament (that last one is my personal fave).
After awhile all those adjectives will lose their meaning entirely and no one will need to be prosecuted for saying them or offended at hearing them.
I am of course only kidding. Not about the airplane thingy, but about the name calling. My point is that I think that idea is as similarly stupid as the idea that those politically correct arse holes are continually coming up with to create more division and strife among people. It is far past the time for some of us to take those dumb fucks out back and lay a good beating on them. And do it every time they open their big fat mouths to show us their big empty, warped, control freak heads.
To wrap up here, some food is unpalatable and some people do stink. That is a fact. If anyone disagrees then they are deniers.
Have a nice day.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:44 pmForget England and Mohamedans and racism! You don’t like tamales???
July 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pmExamining toddlers and babies for signs of racism sounds suspiciously like child abuse to me. These children are being accused of things that they don’t even know the meaning of.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:38 pmIt is very simple folks: We just say “No” to the lunatics and their insane demands.
They are children (the PCers). We must treat them as such. Send them to time out. If that doesn’t work, we spank the everliving hell out of them. If THAT doesn’t work, we put them down like dogs.
They can call us all the names they want. So what? If they try to enforce PC laws on us or our children, we shoot them. The Second Amendment is special that way…
July 8th, 2008 at 12:08 amSpeaking of Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. Goldberg argues that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is proving more predictive than George Orwell’s 1984. At least they’re not using electric shocks for negative aversion… yet.
The scary thing is, I think this will work. Not by changing the hearts of people who would otherwise become racists, but by affecting people’s behavior and worldview. Condition behavior at that age, often enough and firmly enough, and you may get roughly the output you’re looking for. In this case, people so multi-culti sensitive they’re pschologically incapable of expressing even a food preference, much less any more important or offensive value judgement.
Now, what the resulting generation will look like as adults, and what form the breakage will take in the few individuals who don’t submit is another question, but for the most part I think they can pull it off.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:58 amThis even beats the story of the White Kid who was charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words of behaviour which was racially aggravated,
For calling three white security guards Honky’
White man convicted of racial abuse after making ‘honky’ jibe at WHITE security guards
July 8th, 2008 at 4:06 amSaladman Says:
The scary thing is, I think this will work. Not by changing the hearts of people who would otherwise become racists, but by affecting people’s behavior and worldview. Condition behavior at that age, often enough and firmly enough, and you may get roughly the output you’re looking for. In this case, people so multi-culti sensitive they’re pschologically incapable of expressing even a food preference, much less any more important or offensive value judgement.
Now, what the resulting generation will look like as adults, and what form the breakage will take in the few individuals who don’t submit is another question, but for the most part I think they can pull it off.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:35 amI guess this stands as long as your culinary tradition doesn’t include the use of pork crackles and lard.
That’s what I was wondering–will the Muslim children reared in bacon-free households be confiscated, charged, and introduced to the joys of multicultural cusine? Or will they be allowed to carry on as usual while their peers are force-fed tabouleh?
I know the answer, but it’s worth asking.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:59 amIt’s official: Political correctness has descended into self-parody.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:01 amAnd Muslim children do not go these schools, that is the best part of their strategy. Many Muslim children are taught to say and do nothing with infidels so they don’t break these codes in the first place…brilliant. They are taught to kill them, and that is only one bad thing. We non-Muslims do many different bad things so we are much worse. And, of course, their one bad thing gets them in to heaven whereas it would send us evil Christians to hell.
I can see where agnostics could get confused by this a little… White Christians are bigger sinners because they commit so many more sins or something. But how does any atheist have any business, fun, jollygetting, riding the asses of Christians (finding fault with, deriding, mocking, etc.) and yet give Muslims a virtual free pass, or better yet a shiny new ‘victim’ sticker? ‘Come play on our side, until you kill us in our sleep.’ Atheist and seriously agnostic liberals seem like they are dumber than my least favorite fence posts and blinder than a bat that lost his glasses. W…T…F?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:04 amIf you ask me, this is the natural outgrowth of all the pstupid psychobabble of the 60s and 70’s (and 80’s… and 90s… and-Good God; are we there yet???). You know, the one where it’s somehow virtuous to continue turning the other (butt)cheek after being screwed over, again and again… because a Bigger Person forgives, loves unconditionally, and never keeps score.
People who embrace PC to this degree are acting like victims of domestic violence, defending their attackers because it’s easier than believing that they really can’t control the other guy’s psychotic outbursts.
/Rant
July 8th, 2008 at 8:28 amC’mon…are you sure this wasn’t a story from The Onion? I want to scream.
FYI, “racism” is the most overused and misunderstood word in the English language. I’m sick and tired of it being thrown around so much. It carries almost no meaning anymore for me.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:32 amChrist on a Zwiebak!!
July 8th, 2008 at 9:39 am
July 8th, 2008 at 9:59 amI like your new category “Britain Surrenders”. I keep hoping the British will some day remember that theirs used to be a great nation and (re)grow both sense and and a spine. Until then, let them be mocked!
July 8th, 2008 at 10:06 amThe thing to understand about the aims of soi-disant “progressives” is that they have nothing to do with their stated goals.
The purpose of the nonsense of PC is the nonsense of it. It’s meant to degrade communication until the whole of western civilization speaks a kind of babel and can no longer convey the simplest thoughts. The aim is to make the civilization vulnerable to internal destruction and takeover.
The aim of progressivism is the entrenchment in power of progressives. Everything else is persiflage and other misdirection.
M
July 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am“Setting the bar for racism so ridiculously low dilutes the meaning of the word to the point that it has no meaning at all.” Boy, if the nail were ever hit right on the head, this is when. Let me just add this: PASSING LAWS REGARDING ETHICS IS NO LONGER FREEDOM. PERIOD
ps please hide this story from American legislators.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:37 amThe road to Hell, etc. If these clowns keep inflicting this kind of control-freak zealotry on their constituents, all they’ll ultimately achieve is to make “racist” a term of honor.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:58 amI know my daughter would kill me but I’m seriously considering teaching my grandchildren to say “Oh Bullshit!!” …a lot. Especially in school.
I read this stuff and I have a serious brain fault. Thoughts, words just don’t come. Jesus.
To 14Karat: I laughed til tears were streaming down my face. I’m glad no one walked in my office.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:32 amHow about Jesus H on a pogo stick?
July 8th, 2008 at 11:34 am
July 8th, 2008 at 11:37 amSeriously, this is hardly believable. Just for the record, I am a member of an interracial marriage and we have two children. God help them if they cannot fend for themselves intelligently. The pen is still mightier than the sword and the word can still block the punch. All this malarkey about racism, I’m convinced, is not about racism at all. Rather, it is all about control, just like every other empty rhetoric floating around the political cesspool. Do we really think any political power cares about any alleged victims rights or feelings? C’mon! More likely, actual racists create laws regarding racism in order to establish racism and control the use of it. Meanwhile, the law creates two victims in every case. One by the law and one by the prosecution thereof. When, in fact, it was just two people acting naturally (which, by the way, is proven if toddlers need to be legislated to the satisfaction of the tyrant). Afterall, isn’t that what we have here? Tyranny? If we don’t wake up soon, we will all be standing in line for everything we want or need.
Key: Always see the red flag anytime any politician or lawmaker does anything for anyone’s apparent convenience.
Principle: One man’s rubbish - another’s treasure. One man’s roof - another’s floor. EVERY coin - two sides. By the way, did you know those are laws?
Theories are negotiable and change with the blowing of the wind. Laws are stable and absolute. That’s why they make good boundaries. That is also why great care need be employed in establishing law. This idea of theoretical rehabilitation is shooting (has shot?) a hole in our collective foot. Making law of theories only opens the door to a future contrary ‘law.’ Which, by the way, may be just what certain political snakes are all about. If our mighty Constitution were to be rendered contrary, wouldn’t that give them cause to trash it for a new one? Perhaps, before it is too late, we should merely abolish every appendage to the original document of 1776 and begin again with the respect for one another that was intended. Afterall, it did create what is still the more (closer to) perfect Union.
Good reading: ‘Peace Is Where The Tempests Blow”, Valentine Kataev, 1934
July 8th, 2008 at 11:56 amThis one’s just for Rachel … don’t look if you are offended by F****** …
July 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pmYour metaphors never cease to baffle me.
Is it weird that I was more angry a the “singled out for criticism” part than the “racist attitudes” (among toddlers?) part? Must be because I’m a teacher.
One of the first and most important rules of classroom management is you never, never, never, never, NEVER use humiliation to punish a child. Absolutely not ever. Humiliating a child, even if you think he or she richly deserves it, will only cause that child to resent you in the future, which will make it that much harder for you to control that child. Also, it gives the rest of your students an excuse to further humiliate that same child. And why wouldn’t they? If the teacher did it, it must be okay, right? The teacher wouldn’t have embarrassed that kid if he didn’t deserve it, right?
If this ridiculous anti-racism policy stays in place, expect to see stories about children “reporting” on their fellow children like a miniature Hitler Youth squad.
“Teeeeeeaaaaaacheeeeeeeeer! I asked Johnny if he would trade me his peanut butter and jelly sandwich for my tuna sandwich and he said ‘YUK! I hate tuna sandwiches’! He’s a raaaaaaaaaaacist!”
“Teeeeeeaaaaaacheeeeeeeeer! My friend Achmed asked Susan if she would be his girlfriend and she said ‘no’! She’s a raaaaaaaaaaacist!”
“Teeeeeeaaaaaacheeeeeeeeer! Timmy made fun of my hair! He’s a raaaaaaaaaaacist!”
It’ll happen. I guarantee it.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:22 pmThank you so much for that 14karat! That made my day.
mightysamurai - that part left me a little baffled as well. I have a hard time seeing how singling a child out for critism is ok but using red pen to correct their papers may scar them for life.
It’s making my head hurt
July 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pmJesus H on a floatation device.
I am going to hell and Ethne is going with me.
HAH!
Jesus on a flotation device, or “devices” as the case may be.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm“singled out for criticism”
July 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pmGee, ask anyone who lived through the PRC Cultural Revolution how they react to *that* phrase.
BBWWWwwwwhhhaahahahahahaaa haa haaa *sniff*
I guess it’s better than Jesus H on a “Sinclare’s duck.”
haa haa
At least I will be there with entertaining company!!!
July 8th, 2008 at 2:45 pmJesus H on a “Sinclare’s duck.”
Don’t worry, it’s clean … : )
ALTHOUGH I did think of morphing a recent post I did with a naked old flasher … however, there would simply be no hell hot enough if I photoshopped Jesus onto that image for the d*ck.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:47 pmI think I am in totally geeky love…
July 9th, 2008 at 8:00 am