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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a load of this.  Kids were throwing food at each other in the cafeteria and saying "allah akbar."  This is considered a "message of intolerance" and the kids are facing serious consequences.  A food fight while saying "god is great" is a message of intolerance?  Every time I get a "Serious Incident" report from this school, it's more and more ridiculous.[/quote]

My thoughts exactly.  Kids will do stupid things and they do not always equate their actions with consequences.  Sure the kids should be punished but did a food fight signal a need to send an email out to the entire school?  If "Allah Akbar" wasn't said, would the note still have been sent?

I think probably the school psychologist should be brought in to educate the school team on childhood behavior and how to equip the school with a means of positive reinforcement vs. punishment and threats.  There seems to be a lack of discussion of tolerance and acceptance till suspensions are handed out and the offenders are offered up as role models of what not to do.  It makes me wonder what type of experience does the staff have with this age group and gender (considering all serious incidences thus far have involved boys).  There has to be better ways of achieving the behavior you expect from children at school.

If those boys were my kids, I would start by asking why they said what they said as well as talk with the kids that they were aiming the food at.  Knowing a popular video game uses that terminology, I can see a kid saying something that is a reflection of what he has been exposed to and not intended as a message of intolerance.  I would be concerned however if another child or group of children were being bullied, however, interviewing kids in the cafeteria and throughout the grade could bring out why the food fight occurred to begin with.
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