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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a different perspective. I think the principal was showing that he was taking the matter seriously and that such behavior would not be tolerated.  Using offensive and demeaning language like this was a problem when my kid was at Pyle last year and I thought the principal there (Nardi) handled it terribly.  [b]Kids were running around heiling Hitler and calling people dirty Jews and using the N word and the F word [/b]willy nilly and no one did anything about it.  It was depressing.  [/quote]

Is this typical behavior for the W's?[/quote]
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Whitman is located in a segregated area where kids have never met a minority. It isn't a surprise that many lack empathy because of the sheltered existence[/b].[/quote]

This is much of a stereotype as saying all of silver spring is ganglandia. While there is normally a little truth in most stereotypes, people don’t get to pick and chose which ones to propagate and base policy off of.

Ban black people from movie theaters and we can talk about integrating Whitman  [/quote]

I'm a new poster. And I have to say, that one of the criteria that my husband and I were big on was finding a school cluster with true diversity. I was lucky enough to attend schools with real diversity but one of the things that I'm noticing in my adult life is that many of my white friends, coworkers, etc.  who went to primarily white schools don't really have black friends and are pretty uncomfortable when being the minority in a group of black people. I even have a coworker who was apprehensive about going to a particular restaurant when she saw pictures on yelp that there were a good number of black patrons.  The truth is many of them would say that they truly enjoy the diversity of this area but their actions speak very differently. I find this really disturbing and would never want my kids to grow up like that. [/quote]

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