Teacher confiscated AKA shirt from girl at school

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Zach

My guess about her background was just based on what she looked like. That’s stereotyping, which is what I was doing. We were talking about race and stereotyping on another thread and another member of this site called me out by telling me everybody is guilty of stereotyping, so I’m not hiding it. I doubt she even finished high school. With you, that just comes down to a lack of exposure. If you’re not exposed to something, how would you know? The fact that you’re educated and have been exposed to Greek life, you were made aware that BGLO are Greek organizations like WGLO. You gotta remember, we started ours because we weren’t allowed in yours due to skin color during the turn of the 20th century.

To put a side note to Sen’s Revenge’s post about the low class white woman not liking an upper class black woman exerting power over her, that’s really more of a fact than an opinion. I believe that because black success isn’t what white America signed up for when enslaved Africans were brought to America. Blacks were never meant to be prosperous, or powerful, or even educated, and measures were put in place during and after slavery to ensure that they did not rise above their prescribed station. Even though America’s slave-owning whites are long dead, versions of the structures they established still linger, affecting people’s attitudes, beliefs, and expectations or prescriptions for who should be in power. That low class white woman has those same beliefs because it was passed down to her that she is “better” than the most educated black person. So that could be the very reason is made news. I don’t believe all whites share the same attitude as she does, but generally uneducated whites like her don’t know any better. Although there are some educated whites who share the same beliefs too.

And as a comment on your assumptions about "yours", I'm a member of a GLO that was founded in 1925, isn't part of the NIC or NPC and never had a racial or religious limitation on membership* and had its first chapter at an HBCU (NCA&T) in 1946. (And while your assumption that I'm white is correct, I did have brothers in my chapter that were east Asian that this applied to as well)

*We did have some chapters at schools which were segregated like Auburn before they integrated, does that count as a racial limitation?

[PrettyBoy]

If it was my kid, what would make news are my actions when I went into the school to confront the teacher and principal. THAT’S what would make news! By the time I got done clowning in that school, the removal of the shirt wouldn’t even be the topic anymore. The topic would be the removal of ME out of the school premises/grounds by the police. That’s what would happen.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

If it was my kid, what would make news are my actions when I went into the school to confront the teacher and principal. THAT’S what would make news! By the time I got done clowning in that school, the removal of the shirt wouldn’t even be the topic anymore. The topic would be the removal of ME out of the school premises/grounds by the police. That’s what would happen.

Lol!!!! Wow!

[lake]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

If it was my kid, what would make news are my actions when I went into the school to confront the teacher and principal. THAT’S what would make news! By the time I got done clowning in that school, the removal of the shirt wouldn’t even be the topic anymore. The topic would be the removal of ME out of the school premises/grounds by the police. That’s what would happen.

I would love to just sit down and drink beer with you and talk $#!+. Good times!

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by lake

I would love to just sit down and drink beer with you and talk $#!+. Good times!

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[Cookiez17]

Yeah I've sadly heard tons of stories of how hard teaching has become, and it's a mix of student behavior, admin not having the backs of teachers when a student is causing a genuine issue, and parents checking out. My mom as a volunteer religion teacher for almost 20 years has noticed the increases in terrible behavior, but she keeps a tight ship in her class luckily.

[Kevin]

I routinely see local lawn crews in our area wearing letters. In fact, there's an older hispanic woman who was working a local lawn crew last year who I saw on multiple occasions wearing a Kappa Sigma sweatshirt.

It's statistically unlikely that she has a child in Kappa Sigma (as I believe most of our local Kappa Sigma chapters have closed) or that she is a Kappa Sigma sweetheart.

I haven't felt the urge to alert their nationals or something along those lines. This was probably a young teacher who had likely been told who could wear letters and who couldn't and believed she had every right to do what she did.

Mistakes happen. I'm with Sen. This shouldn't be news. It is, I think, only news because racial shit stirring gets clicks and views.