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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a 3rd grader is calling a kindergartener a racist now? What kind of school is this [/quote]

OP here. A small private. I wouldn't say anything to the school but I am considering saying something to the 3rd graders parents, as just an FYI, b/c [b]we did talk so much after my child made the original comments[/b]. [/quote]

This is where you went wrong. You should have said thank you for letting me know and moved on. Talking to others about it just makes it more of a thing in their family so they’re probably bashing your child, calling him racist, etc and the kid heard this. Acknowledge it, handle it, move on. Talking about it doesn’t help. He’s 5 all he needs to know is that’s not a nice word please don’t use it again. Stop shaming him. [/quote]

Agree, I think the part that may not have helped was making your child apologize publicly to the other family. That made it into a bigger thing than it needed to be, which then gives the 3rd grader leverage to use it against your kid. Addressing it privately with your child would have been better. And you can’t control what types of words your kid will learn from other kids. Best you can do is prepare them that there are a lot of racist words out there and never to use them and explain why and what the consequences of using such words would be.[/quote]

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