Just yesterday, the school sent this e-mail to parents: "Regardless of context or circumstance, racial slurs are not acceptable in our schools."pic.twitter.com/48mXZBZ0uD
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Just yesterday, the school sent this e-mail to parents: "Regardless of context or circumstance, racial slurs are not acceptable in our schools."pic.twitter.com/48mXZBZ0uD
So, to be clear, the Madison school district is fighting racism by firing an African-American man who stood up for himself when being verbally assaulted by students.
The fired security guard is a married father of three. But he's now out of a job because the school board is content to hide behind a "zero tolerance" policy that absolves them of the burden of applying context.
While, strictly speaking, I am not nonplussed, I am far from being plussed.
Fun fact: Alumni of the school include @SenatorBaldwin, Pulitzer Prize winner @davidmaraniss, Olympian Eric Heiden, and poker pro Phil Hellmuth
Update: The security guard is appealing his firing:https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/madison-school-district-staffer-files-grievance-appealing-firing/article_296dcc44-0779-5d39-ba29-f777e0797708.html …
SO exhausting. Flipping exhausting.
Zero-tolerance almost always leads school down a pathway to idiocy. And this was an idiotic decision.
This principal appears to be... not terribly smart or PR savvy
This principal appears to be a white female 53%'er by which I mean Trump Voter.
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