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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Sweet Jesus. brain studies have said kids are SO stupid until about age 25, but we expect the MOST of them at this time in their lives.  There is a difference between physceally assaulting someone and a quick, dashed off dumb ass prank.  Did these two kids have a history of bullying?  Did they do harm throughout HS?  Was this the final straw?  Whatever, we will never know.  I hope the punishment fits the crime and the arrival of CAIR just makes me laugh. They have NO validity with me. None.[/quote]

It doesn't appear that CAIR "arrived". The guy just got quoted in the article. You don't believe that CAIR had anything to do with the punishment do you? There is no indication of that at all. 
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So this comment is not apropos of this incident?  Good. Artful interweaving on the part of journalist Emma Brown in that case. I do like the caption on Latin as one of "the most admired schools in the city".  Who would have thunk a few years back?  What surprises me is the no second chance.  That is not the norm at WL, at all.

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said CAIR has seen an increase in bullying of Muslim students in recent years. He said the email should be considered anti-Muslim bullying and a hate crime.

“It’s based on the overall atmosphere of Islamophobia in our society,” Hooper said. If the students weren’t “hearing and seeing this kind of anti-Muslim sentiment in their daily lives, they wouldn’t have even thought to use a Muslim student’s email account to send a bomb threat.”

He said anti-Muslim incidents have spiked since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. He blamed the anti-Muslim rhetoric of Donald Trump and other politicians that he said have helped make Islamophobia part of mainstream culture.

“It’s been a really bad few months,” he said.

[Schoolwork about Islam triggers backlash in Virginia county] 
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