--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <asburyjim@> wrote:
> >
> > What would help with these shootings is some good OLD SCHOOL a Smack
> on the Ass the Old Fashion Way.A good talking to.Family to be able to
> sit down to a Dinner to talk about things.Support them in the Schools
> more.
>
>
> White teacher taught lesson in racial double standard
> Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 05/17/07
> Story Chat Post Comment
>
> In a new twist in American race relations, a federal court has ruled
> that a white teacher in a predominantly black school was subjected to
> a racially hostile workplace.
>
> The case concerned Elizabeth Kandrac, who was routinely verbally
> abused by black students at Brentwood Middle School in North
> Charleston, S.C.. Their slurs make shock jock Don Imus look like a
> church deacon.
>
> Nevertheless, despite frequent complaints, school officials did
> nothing to intervene on Kandrac's behalf, arguing that the racially
> charged profanity was simply part of the students' culture. If Kandrac
> couldn't handle cursing, school officials told her, she was in the
> wrong school.
>
> Kandrac finally filed a complaint with the Equal Employment
> Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and subsequently brought a lawsuit
> against the Charleston County School District, the school's principal
> and an associate superintendent. Last fall, jurors found that the
> school was a racially hostile environment to teach in and that the
> school district retaliated against Kandrac for complaining about it.
>
> The defendants sought a new trial, but U.S. District Judge David C.
> Norton recently affirmed the verdict. However, he did not support the
> jury's findings of $307,500 in damages for lost income and emotional
> distress.
>
> Although Kandrac clearly suffered she was suspended from her job
> shortly after a story about her EEOC complaint appeared in the local
> newspaper, and her contract was not renewed her case didn't meet
> evidentiary requirements for damages. The judge said a new trial would
> have to determine damages, but the school district and Kandrac settled
> for $200,000.
>
> While the dollars-and-cents issue may have been of paramount
> importance to school and district officials and would have lent heft
> to the verdict the more compelling issue for students, parents and
> society is the idea that a particular group of people can be allowed
> to behave in a grossly uncivil and threatening way by virtue of their
> racial "culture."
>
> The key legal question was whether a school could be held responsible
> for students' behavior. In this case, the black children of Brentwood
> had been given a pass for their behavior because vulgar language was
> considered normal for their culture.
>
> Defense attorney Alice Paylor told jurors that the kids heard this
> same language at home and there was "no magic pill" to make them
> behave. Paylor is probably right about that, though a magic paddle
> might have worked wonders.
>
> Back in the day, if a student talked the way these did, he or she
> would have received a well-deserved thwack, been suspended and sent
> home to face the wrath of his or her father. That process likely would
> have put a swift end to the tribal tyranny now often tolerated in the
> service of self-esteem.
>
> Let's be clear: What these children called this teacher is beyond
> reprehensible and could only be construed as hostile and threatening.
> Other white teachers and students corroborated Kandrac's account,
> including a male war veteran who testified he would rather return to
> Vietnam than to Brentwood.
>
> Kandrac's attorney, Larry Kobrovsky, argued that the repeated use of
> "white" made these slurs racist in nature. But school officials
> insisted that because black students were equally abusive to other
> blacks, the language wasn't inherently racist.
>
> Here's what we know without question: If majority white students had
> used similar language toward black students and teachers, the case
> would have been plastered on the front page of The New York Times
> until heads rolled.
>
> A black Kandrac would have a million-dollar book deal, a movie
> contract and hundreds of interviews to juggle. Her oppressors and
> those who passively facilitated her abuse would have been pilloried by
> the media their faces all over the evening news while the
> reverends Al and Jesse organized protests.
>
> But a white Kandrac who faced a daily barrage of insults, who had
> books and desks thrown at her and her bicycle tires punctured was
> treated like an incompetent wimp. She was just a lousy teacher out for
> money, the defense attorney said.
>
> Though Kandrac lost her job, the real losers are the children deprived
> of an education by the actions of a tyrannical few. And the worst
> racists are those teachers and administrators who denied these
> empowered brats the expectation of civilized behavior.
>
> May the rest of America now be emboldened to act decisively in the
> interest of students who want to learn.
>
> Kathleen Parker's nationally syndicated column appears regularly.
>_____________________________________________________________
I have seen people of a differant Color race treated unfairly my whole life
thats the biggest PROBLEM this country has.SSG Craft was treated unfairly
because of the Color of his Skin.I was QUESTION when asking for the KEY to the
CITY for a person that shook 2 Presidents Hands once in 10 Grade & the 2nd time
getting a Purple Heart.Than the Mayor doesn't even shown up to give to him.Alot
people came together March 11,2005 Thank You everyone a day that should go into
a Music Hall of Fame.I have seen people treated unfair there whole life because
they are a differant Race.We all have to Learn to work together in this World.
James Grabe
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