At least four students from a suburban St. Louis middle school face punishment for allegedly hitting Jewish classmates during what they called “Hit a Jew Day.”
The incident happened last week at Parkway West Middle School in Chesterfield.
District officials said Thursday they believe that fewer than 10 children of the district’s 35 Jewish students were struck.
District spokesman Paul Tandy said that in most cases, the students were hit on the back of their shoulders but one student was slapped in the face.
District officials believe a handful of children were directly involved. Those who actually struck classmates could face suspension and required counseling, Tandy said. Others who weren’t directly involved but taunted Jewish students or egged on classmates could face lesser penalties.
I hope school authorities look a little further and deeper. In my experience, 6th-graders don’t spontaneously invent ethnic hatred. One of those habits you often pick up at home.
at home–most likely. But also at church and school.
As “authorities,” I’d check my own house first and see what commonalities if any the attacking students had.
Thinking twice, it started and went forward at school and just wasn’t thwarted by good values from home.
TV and the internet have more to do with their behaviour than their two income parents do.
in grade school we pretended we were the libyans after watching the US bomb them during the 80’s. It only lasted a few recesses.
my 8th grader tells me that in her school, “Jew” is routinely used as an insult, along the lines of “you’re so gay” — i.e. “you’re such a Jew!” We live in a conservative little farming community near Rochester NY, not a place one thinks of as a bastion of anti-semitism. This crap never seems to go out of style.
It’s the new popular swear word. You cant be on Xbox live for more than 5 minutes before you hear jew used as a swear. Ages 9-20.
I used to think it was just John Gabriel’s Internet Fuckwad theory in action, but this story says otherwise.
Was this on South Park? Did I miss an episode?
It sounds like a game Cartman would have come up with.
Wow. Anyone else get the feeling the more things change, the more they stay the same?
Whenever times are tough economically, back hundreds, if not thousands, of years, discrimination against Jews rises. The perception is that Jews control all the banks and are therefore the greedy bastards behind foreclosures. It’s always easier to blame the person that you owe money to than blame yourself for making bad financial decisions.
Someone backed into my car, does that count?
So, #3 believes that a quiet, conservative little town wouldn’t have something like this going on? Really? Because it’s usually the quiet, sheltered, conservative communities that DO have this kind of thing going on. What people do behind closed doors might shock you.
I’ve heard family members, friends, co-workers, and random people on the street use “jew” as a slur. I’ve known jewish people to do it. Hell, Cartman and Borat do it and I laugh. But, I know that to me personally, I wouldn’t do it. This all comes down to knowing what is hurtful and what is funny.
Of course, these kids stand to be suspended and have to attend “counseling”, because everybody needs that, right? It’s total bullshit. You suspend the kids and tell them that if there is even a whisper of them doing this kind of thing again, they are expelled. You can’t “counsel” a mindset out of people, you can only educate them.
…so…like Jewish because of the religion they practice or like bloodline…and how the heck do they know who is Jewish. I had 100 classmates and couldn’t have told you who was what religion.
I also thought…”south park?”
So if the kids have any form of intelligence they will go to the counseling give the right answers and be out of there, the only change being their self esteem boosted for skating the system…. Oh and by intelligence I mean in the vain of Ted Bundy and other famous Anti Social Behavior Disorder sociopaths 😛
I think the school should have a “slap the bigot” day. Then tie these 4 kids up and let all the other students have a go. Then see how much they enjoy it.
Frigging idiots…
#9, it isn’t that our town is “quiet and conservative” — it’s that we’re so near Rochester NY which has a HUGE Jewish population and a constant media stream of articles on local Holocaust survivors, Jewish holidays and the like. What a difference 20 miles makes.
Is it that time of year again?
(just kidding)
Middle to High School students are brain damaged. Fortunately most recover around 30.
Maybe this school should have a visit from a Holocaust survivor. If they learn how the Nazi treatment of the Jews started small, then escalated to the Holocaust maybe they would think twice before coming up with a Hit a Jew day.
However, if this is not the kids idea, it has to come from other sources like their home or their mosque.
Hey Ben,
Please spare us form your hatred against Mosque. If your kids hate the jews then there is something really wrong with the jews themselves. Cuddling and giving the jews blowjobs just because of some holocaust story will not change the facts.
Youre such a jew! 😉
#12, dawn,
What a difference 20 miles makes.
Yes. Precisely because you live in a small, rural town where ignorance and bigotry is tolerated much more than in a larger city like Rochester. BTW, My grandfather was born in Rochester but left because of the discrimination towards Irish Catholics.
The small town where I live today, pop. 3,000, still use code words. The only blacks are those children in foster care. Illegal immigrants don’t stay too long. The funny thing is that only a minority are like this. But there are far more than is needed to keep this town lily white.
It took me a few years to recognize the bigotry beneath the surface. At first I denied it existed. Too bad, but it does. You can find the worst of the lot in church every Sunday.
Wait until hit-a-Latin-gang-leader day rolls around. The problem will fix itself.
zorkor (#15),
I would really like to meet you once for just 1 minute face to face.
You see, I am an Israeli and I am Jewish. I am also a big guy and an ex-special forces soldier in the Israeli military. Last but not least, I am the grandson of a Jewish family that was mostly murdered by Nazis like you in Auschwitz.
I can promise you one thing when we meet in person: I will make it very quick.
Shooting rock throwing palestinian kids with American made and donated armaments doesn’t make you a tough guy Zorkor. Were you one of the IFD involved the attack on the USS Liberty? Or maybe one of the high fivin dancin Israelis celebrating the attack on the WTC?
#1. Bobbo the clown. Pick up racism from church? Nice try. Who stopped slavery? Oh, right, Christians. Who were the only ones to stand up to Hitler and give refuge to the Jews? Oh, right, Christians. Take your hate speech elsewhere.
To woody (#19),
I have never shot palestinian kids throwing rocks and I was not even born when the USS Liberty was hit. If you wanted to see thousands of people dancing on their roofs and in the streets during 9/11 you just had to look at every Arab / Muslim city in the world. They were not only dancing but also giving away CANDY as if some good thing has happened.
And my nickname is not zorkor.
Dumbass.
P.S.
By the way, a rock will split your head open and kill you just fine.
#18 Jopa
Oh I am so scared that a special forces Israeli is threatening. Sure I would love to meet you too. You are talking about making it quick against me while I will make it slow and painful for you. Bring it on you loser!
zorkor (#23)
Ay ya yay… just give me the chance you mother fucker Nazi piece of shit!
I will tear you apart with my own hands. No weapons, nothing, just my hands.
mus scum.