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This takes a minute to read. Please skip this question if reading creates a hardship for you-Please answer another question.A Glendale elementary school principal has admitted to telling a 9-year old boy that it is OK to have racist feelings as long as you keep them to yourself.



“As we said to (the boy) when he was in here, in your heart you may have that feeling, and that is OK if that is your personal belief,” Abraham Lincoln Traditional School Principal Virginia Voinovich said in a tape-recorded parent-teacher conference.



The boy was suspended for three days this month for allegedly committing a “hate crime” by using the expression “brown people.”



In an interview Monday, Voinovich would not address her comments, first saying she didn't remember the incident, then demanding a copy of the recording and finally insisting that she could not talk about a student's discipline.



The circumstances of the boy’s suspension itself raise troubling questions about student discipline, interrogation and oversight at Abraham Lincoln.



According to school officials, the boy made a statement about “brown people” to another elementary student with whom he was having a conflict. They maintain it was his second offense using the phrase.



But the tape recording indicates this only came out after another parent was allowed to question the boy and elicited from him the statement that he “doesn't cooperate with brown people.”



After that was reported to the boy's teacher, he was made to stand in front of his class and publicly confess what he'd said.



The boy maintains that he never said it; that the words were put in his mouth by the parent who questioned him. That parent happens to be the mother of the student with whom he is having a conflict—and she happens to work for Abraham Lincoln as a detention-room officer.



The tape indicates that rather than just spouting off with racial invective, the boy was asked first why he didn't want to cooperate with brown people by the parent/school official.



In court, this might be called entrapment. Not to mention a conflict of interest.



Officials at the Washington Elementary School District, who are supposed to oversee Voinovich, wouldn't comment about the boy’s suspension. They said only the principal is qualified to talk about it.



Well, the boy’s mother is talking, and she is angry. She has also removed her son from the school.



“I want parents to know … that principals can abuse their powers,” Sherry Neve, 35, said. “Principals need to have pro-active supervisors. I want the parents to know that the principal was influencing my son in a way I wouldn't want him to be raised.”



Neve said school officials didn’t advise her of the incident until several days after they questioned her son. When Neve objected to the suspension during the conference, Voinovich told her that she didn't have any rights; that parents give up their rights to discipline when they send a child to school, the tape shows.



“If you don't want that, you can take him out of here,” Voinovich said tersely.



Neve insists that her son is not a racist and that he never differentiated a person's color until the school made it in an issue.



“We were raised to be color blind,” she said. “My children were raised the same way.”



But let's assume for a minute that the boy actually made the comment. Does this make him a racist and guilty of a hate crime? Or does it make him a confused 9-year-old in need of counseling?



Instead of taking an opportunity to educate the boy and get to the root of the problem, the principal taught him another lesson altogether: It's OK to feel like a racist as long as you keep your feelings to yourself.



Kids often say the darndest things. Apparently, so do principals.
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/WA TCHBLOG/11323

I think at 9 years old he is only a child and should not be punished for saying brown. This is a color and it is not racist in any way. Why is it that everyone can use the term white, but if a white uses a term such as brown or black it is considered racist. The school should have notified his parents before any action was taken. I believe it is another case of PC going way to far. My son is 9 years old and he has always described people as light skinned or browned skin. He uses this as a description because he does not see the ethnic differences in people. It is the same with hair color he uses the terms light haired and dark haired. I would never consider this racist.

I cannot understand why a parent of another child was talking to this child. Even if she was an employee of the school she had no business talking to the child since it involved her child.

I also do not think the principal should have talked to the child about racism. This should have been discussed with the parents first. I also would like to know the exact quote that was made by the child and the what the exact situation was. It is kind of unclear on exactly what happened.

2007-11-27 11:25:07 by Beach Girl

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Bucket List

Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not. Copy and Paste to your e mail and send it to your friends.

This is for your Entire Life!

[x ] Climbed a mountain

[X ] Ridden a subway train

[x ] Ridden a horse

[x ] Changed a tire

[x ] Shot a gun

[ x] Gone on a blind date

[x] Skipped school.

[ ] Gone to Washington, DC

[x] Been on the opposite side of the country...my country yes.

[x ] Been to Las Vegas

[] Been to Florida

[x] Been to Alaska

[ x] Been to Canada

[ x] Been to Mexico

[ ] Been to Cuba

[ x] Been to Europe

[x] Been on a plane

[x] Been on a cruise ship

[x] Served on a jury

[x] Been lost

[x] Swam in the ocean

[] Cried yourself to sleep

[ x] Played cops and robbers

[x ] Played cowboys/girls and Indians

[ ] Recently colored with crayons

[ ] Sang Karaoke

[ ] Paid for a meal with coins only

[ ] Made a prank phone call

[x] Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of
your nose.

[ x] Caught a snowflake on your tongue

[ ] Danced in the rain

[ x] Written a letter to Santa Claus

[ x] Been kissed under the mistletoe

[ ] Watched the sunrise with someone you cared about(sunset,not sunrise)

[X] Watched someone die

[x] Blown bubbles

[ x] Gone ice-skating

[ x ] Gone snow skiing

[ x] Camped out under the stars

[x] Seen something so beautiful that it took your breath away

[ x] Are or have been married

[x] Have/had a pet

[x]Been skinny dipping outdoors

[x] Been fishing

[x] Been boating

[ ] Been water skiing

[x] Been hiking

[ x] Been camping in a trailer/RV

[] Flown in a small 4 seater airplane

[ ] Flown in a glider

[x ] Been flying in a hot air balloon

[x] Been Parachuting

[ ] Been bungie-jumping

[x] Gone to a drive-in movie

[x ] Done something that should have killed you

[x] Done something that you will probably regret for the rest of your life (time will tell)

[ ] Been to Africa?

[x] Ever eaten just cookies for dinner

[ x] Been on TV ..As a child I was on Art Linkletter Show, won a bunch of toys.

[x ] Ever stolen a traffic sign

[ x] Been in a car accident

1. Birthplace? Seoul, Korea

2. Any nicknames? Tony

3. Mother's name? Lucimae

4. Favorite number? 11

5. Favorite movie? The last Star Trek Movie

6. Favorite Holiday? Christmas

7. Favorite dessert? Pineapple up-sid -down cake with ice cream

8. Favorite Drink? Very hot and spiced bloody marys

9. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 2 door Nissan red truck very early model

10. Automatic or straight-shift? Automatic

11. Favorite vacation spot? Pusan, Korea

12. Christian? yes

13. Liberal or Conservative? liberal

14. Tattoos? Yes. High School girl freind's name on right arm. (Cecilie)

15. Body Piercing? No

16. How much do you love your job? Self Employed..Love it!

17. Where do you see yourself in 5 years. In the hospital

18. 10 years? In the morgue or in the grave

19. Furthest place you will send this message? To the Philippines.

20. Who will respond to this the fastest? Person from Texas.







By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step,
he's too old to go anywhere.
~ Billy Crystal

x ] Climbed a mountain
[X ] Ridden a subway train
[x ] Changed a tire
[x] Skipped school.
[x] opposite side of the country
[ x] Been to Canada
[x] Been on a plane
[x] Served on a jury [well kept getting cancelled so no but have got jury duty notices]
[x] Been lost
[x] Swam in the ocean
[x] Cried yourself to sleep
[ x] Played cops and robbers
[x ] Played cowboys/girls and Indians
[x ] Sang Karaoke
[x ] Paid for a meal with coins only
[x ] Made a prank phone call
[ x] Caught a snowflake on your tongue
[x ] Danced in the rain
[ x] Written a letter to Santa Claus
[x] Blown bubbles
[ x] Gone ice-skating
[ x] Camped out under the stars
[x] Seen something so beautiful that it took your breath away
[x] Have/had a pet
[x]Been skinny dipping outdoors
[x] Been fishing
[x] Been boating
[x] Been hiking
[ x] Been camping in a trailer/RV
[x] Gone to a drive-in movie
[x] Ever eaten just cookies for dinner
1. Birthplace? hospital:P
2. Any nicknames?yes
3. Mother's name? why u wanna now?
4. Favorite number? 56
5. Favorite movie? grease
6. Favorite Holiday? Christmas
7. Favorite dessert? cheesecake
8. Favorite Drink? depends what you mean
9. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? 4door
10. Automatic or straight-shift? Automatic
11. Favorite vacation spot? maine
12. Christian? catholic
13. Liberal or Conservative? independent
14. Tattoos? not yet
15. Body Piercing? No
16. How much do you love your job? what job
17. Where do you see yourself in 5 years.
making something of myself...
18. 10 years? married hopefully,id be 31
19. Furthest place you will send this message? anywhere
20. Who will respond to this the fastest? the person behind you

2009-08-20 00:57:51 by Violation Committee

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Don't let the DNC unify, or at least until after the election, good for you. Maybe your next blog can have all six ey.

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Posted By: willnotvoteobama (September 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM)

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick, they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the maintenance man would remove them, and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses). To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror. There are teachers ... and then there are educators . .i have to wonder how much longer the obama supporters will keep kissing the mirror

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Posted By: willnotvoteobama (September 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM)

It is obvious that the democrats and leftist liberals have never been to Alaska. I think that everyone should know not to poke a grizzly bear with a stick and wake it up because it will be very angry and attack! Now factor in a cub that’s there and you’ve really got a problem! This is what the liberal has done by attacking Sarah palin and her daughter Bristol. She may have been hurt and had some resentment about accepting the v.p.offer, however now she is angry and will fight with all her might. she is a force to be reckoned with! She is very smart and not afraid to lay it on the line. Some politicians don’t go to certain areas against their opponents out of respect for the office and the need to work with them in the future. But Sarah palin don’t she will get rid of her problems by laying it all out for the world to see and the opponent will be eliminated! So watch this lady in action now and don’t be too surprised when she takes on the media or the biggest liberal organization out there! There will be heads rolling! P.s. Obama might have been to Alaska before because he said that families are off limits he may know a thing or two about grizzly bears!

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2008-09-15 05:14:03 by Joan F_ on struggle_for _weaker

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Seems to me Ohio State and big 10 fans want strength of schedule dismissed when we discuss their school of blind schedule. However they make a big issue of other teams not playing anyone. Looking at the big 10 nonconference schedule I'd say it might be a conference mandate to only play wimpy nobodies. I only saw 2 teams with a tough nonconference game ( Illinois against Missouri and Michigan vs Oregon) both were losses. The rest of games were div 1 AA or a small div 1A school. Yet they want to bust Hwaii on their schedule? or kick Boise State out of the rankings for having the same offence? (yes BSU lost to Washington but Michigan lost to Appalachian STATE- a Div 1 AA team!!!!)
If you punish Boise State for weak schedule.. then you'd have to punish the whole big Ten the same way.
I think that it is a good idea to Punish Ohio State.. Higher then Boise State sure but not top 5

OSU gets to be ranked number one because they are OSU. People who vote go, Ohio State? Well, they must be good because they're Ohio State. They have all sorts of *tradition* and *history* and that automatically makes people think more highly of them.

It's just name recognition.

As for the dude who says that polls are just polls and don't decide the best team in the nation... that's a load of bunk. The teams that play for the national championship (i.e. the best teams in the nation) are decided by using the polls. So, yes, the polls ARE supposed to reflect who the best team in the nation is.

2007-10-26 19:39:02 by andrew w

I'm serious... i mean, after all, i'm "blind" right? I'm just a mixed up Christian without a clue.

I mean besides the fact that i was an honour role student in high school and currently have a 3.8 (out of 4 for those who are clueless) GPA at the finest Art college in Canada (Sheridan), i've only taken special interest courses in all the sciences, philosophy(i've come up with theories based on Freedom Vs Determinism argument), anthropology, psychology, sociology, world history and World religion(during and after high school).

i've owned and fixed 5 cars (got my 6th today) , i know some computer programming languages(Java mostly), and i know how to draw/paint/use graphic design programs (Photoshop) and 3D design programs(3DSM and MAYA/sculpt with plastercene/woodwork(i've built a St Patricks day float)/i know how to do graffiti (possibly the hardest form of art: paint cans are very unforgiving) I have art connections in Toronto and Washington D.C...
Also in respects to sociology/psychology/philosophy I’ve written numerous papers and filled out many notebooks on my thoughts and analysis of the human condition referencing it those involved in my life. I have a thorough understanding behind the motivation and drive of human desire and functioning. I have studied and read the works of B.F Skinner, Pavlov, St Aquinas, Freud (especially), Immanuel Kant, Archimedes, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates… and more.

I’m currently studying Physics (for the summer before I go back to College in Sept) and biology, I have a basic idea and understanding of Evolution but I’m still pursuing a definite answer.
I’ve also spent 6 years weight training and have a long history of sports as well. And I’ve had a life outside of school and education as well… like parties, drinking, smoking, chilling with tons of girls…etc. it was only temporary but I grew very uninterested in it, it became very mundane.

Among all else, I’m only 21.

So where is my blind faith taking me? I wonder?
this is just a taste of my artwork too

http://lifeoguyy.deviantart.com/gallery/

"Why is it my 'blind faith'..." = NO EVIDENCE.
"a mixed up Christian without a clue" ... Oh, please... You poor picked-on little Xian! ... What you have is a pathetic and ugly, very common Xian PERSECUTION COMPLEX. ... This sad, whiney issue comes up time after time and you guys can never CITE all these accusations of 'mixed-up', 'stupid' and the like. ... The dumbest thing about you Xians *IS* this thing you have that everyone calls you 'mixed-up' and 'dumb'!
PLEASE, Xians... GROW UP AND *STOP* THIS CRAP!
YOU ARE Collectively EMBARRASSING YOURSELVES!

2007-06-25 22:05:40 by Memory