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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Terrible school environment. One kid has a racial slur thrown at them and a kindergartner is labeled a racist for once using a word he does not understand and was probably goaded into using. [/quote]

If he used it contextually he had some level of understanding. He may not have understood the severity of the word but likely knew it wasn’t a positive term.[/quote]

Except the child’s five and the term had no more meaning to him than if he had called the third grader a poopyhead.  [/quote]

If that were true he wouldn’t have singled out a racial minority to say it to. He would have said it to the white girl next to him.[/quote]

He heard the other 3rd grader say it to the same girl and repeated it, he did not single out a random Asian minority. Yes a five year old brain is not developed enough to have cognitive flexibility let alone contextual nuances. He learned his  lesson, stigmatizing him as a racist to the school community is a very cruel thing.[/quote]

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