Racism in our children's schools
Well on Thursday March 27 th my daughter supposedly fell off a swing at school backwards. She ended up with only scraps on the top of her forehead with no other marks on her. This is a cover up story, that she made up. She has been bullied viciously at her school since the moment she started. We only moved here a little over a year and half ago.
I found that she has been shoved into the gravel and when she told her teacher she was told, "Oh well." Then another time she was choked and when she told the recess supervising adult about it, nothing was done. It wasn't until the child that has done all that finally had to do this kind of behavior to several other kids did the school finally do something. Direct quote from the principal, "He was segregated from the general population and now is being slowly re-introduced to everyone again." She tried to laugh it off!! This is the same principal that took my daughter and two other kids out of the bus line to the gym to scream at them for their supposed behavior on the bus.
The principal also had the nerve to try and turn this whole ordeal of the swing around on my daughter. That she must have lied to her twice then about how she got hurt. I said, "Sbhe won't even open up to tell me!! That she is embarrassed about what is happening. And that all the adults here have proven to her that when she says something that nothing gets done and the abuse gets worse!! And now I have to try and fix her trust in the school!!" It was amazing how the principals attitude about all this changed when she was informed that a call was already placed to the school board about this. I suggested a meeting with the her, the teacher and a social worker to figure out what to do. She said she would "Launch an investigation." Before I left I told the principal that if this kind of behavior continues that my daughter will snap and harm someone!! That is why I am here to try and prevent her from snapping and harming another child!!
All this physical abuse started from so called harmless joking about her being white. Granted my daughter is mainly white but she has been brought up to be very proud of her Tlinget heritage (Alaskan Indian). My daughter informed the children she isn't white she is Alaskan Indian. They then proceeded to harass her for being even more different from them. My daughter is the minority of the minority here. It more than likely progressed because the boys may have liked her. The typical pick on a cute girl to get her attention. I have a feeling since she did not respond how they thought she should, they escalated the abuse. From the way things have gone it seems she did not return their feelings, they are retaliating. If these boys behave like this now just imagine what they will be like when they are older and stronger!!
Since when did respect, discipline, honor, and common decency become values of the past? When did those values turn into vicious bulling, abuse, and racism? Granted racism has always been around and will always be around!! It saddens me to know this happens to our children and will continue to happen to our children until we teach them otherwise!! I have tried to teach my daughter to stand up for the bullied child and not be the one to bully!! I hoped that things had changed more than when I was a child. I was put through hell growing up in a small redneck town. I had hoped that moving across country the racism would be less here than on Oregon coast.
When did we start running our schools like a jail house? When did teachers and principals stop caring about the children's safety? People wonder why school shootings happen. Well I can say that you can only bully a person so far before they snap and when they do it can be very ugly. I am scared now for my daughters safety at this school!! Who wouldn't be scared for their child when this kind of abuse has happened? Why does someone like me have to stand up and fight for what is wrong? Why does it have to come to calling and writing the school board, media and government officials to try and stop this behavior?
