/picture of the teacher

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ALLL THE LIVE LONG DAY

Can't someone of any race be nappy-headed?

In which we ascertain the depth of the pockets of the Century Academy For Excellence.

Uh it's not racism if 92.5 of the school is black. I hear black people calling each other n**ger all the time and yet that's "OK". Black people need to GET OVER IT and quit playing the race card to get their way all the time. I'm glad they were kicked out.

Something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nu2 ZquAcg

Not enough info but I guess...

/kid is trouble student
/teacher has finally had enough one day and comments
/Mom goes full on "crazy" at the meeting
/principal decides it is best to end the school/student relationship

fracas: In which we ascertain the depth of the pockets of the Century Academy For Excellence.

I'm guessing it's a charter or alternative school, where kids who have already flunked out or are "not succeeding" in a standard school go.

That said, with no absolute confirmation of the teacher's ethnicity, I'm going to leave the comment alone. I'm going to guess the student was prone to acting out. I take these stories always at face value, because of helicopter parents who think their child can do no wrong.

Not saying the school is completely blame-free either, but I'd like to know if the kid was a good student or being a disruption to other kids actually learning.

In today's day and age? Just how stupid is that teacher?
/someone get the that's racist ready

FTFA: According to Williams, principal Giselle Edman, who is African-American, shifted the blame onto Persley, saying, "Bad things need to happen to mean kids."

92.5% of the school is african-american.

The article doesn't quote ANYONE besides the parent being outraged.

There's something we're not hearing here.

Crap. Last time someone called a black girl "nappy-headed," 30 people got shot at Virginia Tech.

Thankfully most kids are out of school right now though.

LtDarkstar: Uh it's not racism if 92.5 of the school is black. I hear black people calling each other n**ger all the time and yet that's "OK". Black people need to GET OVER IT and quit playing the race card to get their way all the time. I'm glad they were kicked out.

""Sit your nappy-headed self down."

This was the comment that Brea Persley, a 13-year-old student at Century Academy For Excellence in Inglewood, Calif., received from teacher Kelly Dempsey"

" KTLA footage of the school indicates that Dempsey is a white woman."

Clearly someone didn't do the reading assignment.

MattyFridays: That said, with no absolute confirmation of the teacher's ethnicity, I'm going to leave the comment alone. I'm going to guess the student was prone to acting out. I take these stories always at face value, because of helicopter parents who think their child can do no wrong.

The teacher is white, you can see her in the video. The principal is black and is the one that kicked the girl out of the school. Doesn't seem like any of the other 92% black students had a problem with what the teacher said.

The article linked in the HuffPost article said that the girl had been in a fight on campus, and had been cited for tardiness and gum-chewing, but it also said that the letter sent to the mom specifically stated that she was banned "due to the fact that [mom] scolded the principal". I think that is where the school left themselves wide open to problems.

LtDarkstar: Uh it's not racism if 92.5 of the school is black. I hear black people calling each other n**ger all the time and yet that's "OK". Black people need to GET OVER IT and quit playing the race card to get their way all the time. I'm glad they were kicked out.

camaroash: Can't someone of any race be nappy-headed?

Yes, I'm a whitey with nappy hair.

Ed Willy: LtDarkstar: Uh it's not racism if 92.5 of the school is black. I hear black people calling each other n**ger all the time and yet that's "OK". Black people need to GET OVER IT and quit playing the race card to get their way all the time. I'm glad they were kicked out.

""Sit your nappy-headed self down."

This was the comment that Brea Persley, a 13-year-old student at Century Academy For Excellence in Inglewood, Calif., received from teacher Kelly Dempsey"

" KTLA footage of the school indicates that Dempsey is a white woman."

Clearly someone didn't do the reading assignment.

Eh...."KTLA footage" isn't, by any means, reliable confirmation of the teacher's race. This sounds a LOT like the mother decided "I'm gonna go to the media 'cause I'm pissed," station says "oh hell yea this should be good why should we bother fact checking or getting an opposing point of view," soon to be followed by a "oh crap" from the station when the school lays the factual smackdown on them.

Where is the slow golf clap dude?

She's more "hairist" than "racist".

/got nothing

LtDarkstar: Uh it's not racism if 92.5 of the school is black. I hear black people calling each other n**ger all the time and yet that's "OK". Black people need to GET OVER IT and quit playing the race card to get their way all the time. I'm glad they were kicked out.

Here, it looks like you need some relief, you're sounding a bit leaky. I wouldn't doubt the teacher could use some. I heard it makes the itching stop too.

ZOMG! Someone with frizzy hair was referred to as having frizzy hair!
Next, the teachers will be using derogatory terms like "red headed", and, "brunette"!

I'm not a hair dresser or anything.... but it does appear to fit the definition of nappy....

Black teacher in almost entirely black school uses a black reference in regard to a black student and the black principal has no problem with it. Actually no one but a sandy vagina'd parent looking for any reason to deflect blame away from their disruptive bully of a student has a problem with it.

No news story here. At all.

Shoop008: MattyFridays: That said, with no absolute confirmation of the teacher's ethnicity, I'm going to leave the comment alone. I'm going to guess the student was prone to acting out. I take these stories always at face value, because of helicopter parents who think their child can do no wrong.

The teacher is white, you can see her in the video. The principal is black and is the one that kicked the girl out of the school. Doesn't seem like any of the other 92% black students had a problem with what the teacher said.

You see someone the news station identifies as the teacher. They're not necessarily correct.

Even if they are, again, we're not hearing nearly the whole story here.

nappy headed is now a racist comment?

jesus h christ

FTFA: Giselle Edman, who is African-American, shifted the blame onto Persley, saying, "Bad things need to happen to mean kids."

Reminds me of when I was a tutor for underprivileged kids.

Some kids would tease others for being slow, not understanding one concept or another. How did the teachers respond? Not by scolding the children and telling them they were wrong to make fun of people trying to learn; the teachers would actually tell the mean kids thing like, "well, you're dumb, too" or "you can hardly read."

Made me want to punch those teachers right in the neck.

The truth is most of the kids weren't dumb. It's just that nobody had ever taken an interest in them, nobody had ever really cared about whether the kids really understood the concepts that were being taught. But, if you took a few minutes, you'd see that the kids quickly "got" the point, were able to answer questions correctly and were able to apply the principles to new problems.

Of course, the really depressing part was the whole tutoring thing was like the labor of Sisyphus. You'd get the kids excited about learning one day...but, the next time you'd come back, they'd be lethargic and hopeless and had forgotten everything you'd taught them a few days before.

*sigh*

You mean to tell me there are consequences for acting like an asshole in school? GTFO

What a dumb story. First of all, the child is a troublemaker. Second, the comment wasn't racist. Third, the mom overreacted and deserves to deal with the fallout of what she's now done to her problem child.

Good riddance. Maybe the children can learn something now.

My sixth-grade teacher once called me a "white devil".

Where's my parade?

If Obama had a daughter.......

Using someones physical description is not racist.

camaroash: Can't someone of any race be nappy-headed?

yup.



Back when i was in high school (oh, about 20 yrs ago) a teacher once did tell a student to "sit his black ass down"... and do you know what?

He did. End of story.

siyuntz: The article linked in the HuffPost article said that the girl had been in a fight on campus, and had been cited for tardiness and gum-chewing, but it also said that the letter sent to the mom specifically stated that she was banned "due to the fact that [mom] scolded the principal". I think that is where the school left themselves wide open to problems.

How so? She got what she deserved. Considering parents are responsible for the majority of problems with kids today, just when and how do schools start holding parents accountable? This would appear to be a good start. Hopefully the mother has to stay home with the child now and loses a job. True social justice.

vegasj: nappy headed is now a racist comment?

jesus nappy-headed christ

FTFY

why's i never done heard of such a thing. them those school folks done should be ashamed o themselves. it ain't no big thing.

vegasj: camaroash: Can't someone of any race be nappy-headed?

yup.



Back when i was in high school (oh, about 20 yrs ago) a teacher once did tell a student to "sit his black ass down"... and do you know what?

He did. End of story.

By the same token, I had an african american basketball coach who regularly used the term "pasty white asses" in his "motivational" shouting. Nobody gave a damn.

No one has biatched about Unions yet! Even though it is a charter that isn't unionized, I'm still shocked.

Has anyone else read the comments at the HP? Are those real people or does the HP have some low IQ comment generating script that belts are herpa-derp of grade A quality?

eraser8: FTFA: Giselle Edman, who is African-American, shifted the blame onto Persley, saying, "Bad things need to happen to mean kids."

Reminds me of when I was a tutor for underprivileged kids.

Some kids would tease others for being slow, not understanding one concept or another. How did the teachers respond? Not by scolding the children and telling them they were wrong to make fun of people trying to learn; the teachers would actually tell the mean kids thing like, "well, you're dumb, too" or "you can hardly read."

Made me want to punch those teachers right in the neck.

The truth is most of the kids weren't dumb. It's just that nobody had ever taken an interest in them, nobody had ever really cared about whether the kids really understood the concepts that were being taught. But, if you took a few minutes, you'd see that the kids quickly "got" the point, were able to answer questions correctly and were able to apply the principles to new problems.

Of course, the really depressing part was the whole tutoring thing was like the labor of Sisyphus. You'd get the kids excited about learning one day...but, the next time you'd come back, they'd be lethargic and hopeless and had forgotten everything you'd taught them a few days before.

*sigh*

That's because they weren't intelligent.

TimonC346: No one has biatched about Unions yet! Even though it is a charter that isn't unionized, I'm still shocked.

Says who? Some charter schools use unionized teachers...

Kyndig: vegasj: camaroash: Can't someone of any race be nappy-headed?

yup.



Back when i was in high school (oh, about 20 yrs ago) a teacher once did tell a student to "sit his black ass down"... and do you know what?

He did. End of story.

By the same token, I had an african american basketball coach who regularly used the term "pasty white asses" in his "motivational" shouting. Nobody gave a damn.

Yeah, but that's because that coach had no authority with which to impress upon those students that their whiteness made them less-than.

:I

wait a sec... there's an Academy for Excellence in Inglewood?

I call BS to this story right there!

Kyndig: By the same token, I had an african american basketball coach who regularly used the term "pasty white asses" in his "motivational" shouting. Nobody gave a damn.

Why doesn't anyone here seem to get the fact that the issue here isn't that the teacher is white and the student is black?

That may be why the news station latched on to the story -- but it doesn't seem to me the issue between the family and the school.

The issue is a teacher insulted a student.

I get that people get frustrated. But, if you're a professional, you deal with it without lashing out at a child.

Approves.

Let's see. Black principal takes side of white teacher vs black student. I'm wondering if the teacher really said what was alleged.

eraser8: Kyndig: By the same token, I had an african american basketball coach who regularly used the term "pasty white asses" in his "motivational" shouting. Nobody gave a damn.

Why doesn't anyone here seem to get the fact that the issue here isn't that the teacher is white and the student is black?

That may be why the news station latched on to the story -- but it doesn't seem to me the issue between the family and the school.

The issue is a teacher insulted a student.

I get that people get frustrated. But, if you're a professional, you deal with it without lashing out at a child.

I agree with you there, to a certain degree. At the same time, though, there were clearly issues other than what's being brought up in the article. And it's not the commenters here making it about race, it's the article itself.

Meh. Some snowflakes are black.

I just woke up from a long nappy, so I'm trying to get my head around these replies.