Anonymous wrote:I've recently been spending time at the local high school, where we had planned to send our child in a few years. It's in Fairfax (not Fairfax HS). However, on the two occasions I was there, groups of boys were heard shouting really obnoxious racial slurs. I heard the n-word and a lot of comments about Jews, and some horrible things about some of the high school girls. These things were being shouted - very loudly - so that everyone within a hundred yards could hear. All of the students were boys and all were white, and at least some were definitely not Jews (their parents go to our church). I'm wondering if I should be concerned about the culture of this school. Is this just the way kids talk now, and maybe it means nothing? Or does this indicate a strong culture of racism, sexism, and anti-semitism in this high school?
Sounds contrived. You've been spending time there...on two occasions? It's also odd how you referred to these supposed epithets in the passive tense ("boys were heard" rather than "I heard boys"). And you were close enough to ID kids from your church, but not so close that the kids moderated their trash-talking. Sorry, this doesn't quite add up.