Apr 19 2006
School Moonbats In Peoria
Rhymes with Right (via Edwonk) points to an … well, let’s say intriguing article about a series of incidents in the Peoria school system, and the school’s reaction:
Up to the point a fourth-grader brought a box cutter to school and threatened to kill their daughter, Joe and Jessica Sweeney wanted to give Glen Oak Primary School a chance.
“This is our neighborhood. This is where we live. Let’s give the public schools a shot,’” is the way Joe describes their reasoning. “We’ve lived here six years. Let’s give it a shot.”
So they transferred 9-year-old Alexis and 8-year-old Jacob out of Peoria Christian School - which was “nice, but too expensive” - and opted for Glen Oak last September.
Well, there was your first mistake. Anyway:
From the beginning, it was uncomfortable. Both children were taunted with racial slurs, particularly Alexis. The Sweeneys tried to make this a life lesson, coaching their kids to respond appropriately. They advised the children to report any threats or poor treatment to teachers, assuming the adults were addressing the problems. And they prayed their kids were simply learning the uncomfortable truth that life can be tough. But the incidents didn’t stop, despite a lot of back-and-forth with the school. The kids kept their grades up, but they got pretty quiet.
In mid-March, matters came to a head during an after-school program. Alexis was alone in a bathroom when she was threatened by three other girls. Jessica went to the principal, who brought the ringleader in and made her apologize. Days later, the same girl was back - with a box cutter - threatening to kill Alexis. On the ride home after that incident, Jacob displayed a large bruise on his arm from being shoved to the ground and called a “stupid white boy.”
Jessica pulled both kids out of the school immediately.
“I’m done,” she says. “I’m done putting her life at risk because you won’t do anything.”
“This is beyond standard fourth-grade stuff,” agrees Joe. “This is becoming racial now. They’re not going back.”
Well, there you go. You should have left your kids in that Christian school in the first place. Expensive? Sure, but you get what you pay for, you know.
The school tried everything but dealing with the problem:
He feels this is a two-part problem. First and most importantly, they feel the school has failed to ensure the children’s safety. But, second, they don’t think Peoria School District 150 offered much in the way of alternatives or support. The Sweeneys were given the option to switch to Kingman Primary School. They refused. Alexis and Jacob would still be a small part of the handful of white children there.
“It’s racial harassment. It’s just the other way,” says Joe. “There needs to be a zero-tolerance policy of any type of harassment.”
One suggestion was that the family move. Again, they refused. Four houses along their street near Midtown Plaza belong to members of Jessica’s family. The kids have plenty of friends - and cousins - in the neighborhood. Their grandmother runs a small business up the block.
There’s a reason that school wouldn’t even acknowledge the racism, but I’ll get to that in a moment. And it’s not like the nature of the problem isn’t obvious:
Unlike other families who have pulled children from Peoria schools in favor of Catholic education or more upscale neighboring districts, the Sweeneys are in a unique position to publicly explain why. They are not fleeing the inner city. This is not a knee-jerk reaction against District 150. And it’s tough to brand them as closet racists.
They actually have three children. Their oldest son, Caleb, is bi-racial. He has attended District 150 schools and thrived.
“My son is in Von Steuben,” Jessica says. “He’s mixed. He doesn’t have one problem.”
But the parents came to their senses:
Then Rhymes with Right says:
THEY TOLD THE FAMILY TO SELL THEIR HOME AND MOVE! Could you imagine the outrage if they had been a black family in a mostly white school and had been told that the solution was for them to move somewhere where there were more of their own kind? That district would be under court supervision until two or three years after the Second Coming. Individuals would have lost their teaching and administrative credentials. But since the kids are only white, it really is not a big deal, I suppose.
No, no, no, you don’t get it — most likely because you’re not sufficiently exposed to these moonbats. So it’s time for Identity Politics 101.
You see, only a Caucasian (preferably Christian, conservative, male and heterosexual) can ever display what multiculturalists define as “racism.” You’re not seeing an appropriate reaction from the loony leftists at the school district (or demonstrations by race whores Jackson and Sharpton) simply because this is not racism as defined by the PC school of Identity Politics.
Situations like this, you see, are “authentic street culture,” the type of thing PC multiculturalists celebrate. So are drive-by shootings, gang violence, or references to “ho’s and bitches” in rap or hip-hop (somebody’s going to have to explain the difference to me one of these days). No moonbat will ever cry in outrage on hearing a black call a white a honky — that’s not racism, that’s justified anger of an oppressed, disadvantaged, disenfranchised, marginalized community. You know, just as beheading Americans or murdering Israeli civilians in coffee shops is the justified anger of an oppressed, disadvantaged, disenfranchised, marginalized community.
In fact, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the school system had expelled those awful white kids for “disrupting” the school by being attacked.
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