Racial harassment is a whole lot different than just being picked on, submitter.


I was picked on constantly when I was in high school, but I wasn't called racist names or nor was I the target of racially motivated threats. The school knew what was happening to this young man and did virtually nothing.

If schools want to claim that they are "in loco parentis" in order to justify unreasonable searches of students and drug tests without probable cause, then they sure as f*ck had better satisfy the parental responsibility of keeping their kids safe.

kronicfeld: "in loco parentis"

I thought "loco" meant "crazy," so schools are just required to act "like crazy parents."

Which they do quite well, mind you.

Um....Buck up. Realize that your school years arent the only thing you have to look foward to. Once you get to college, yeah there are the same kinda asshats, but you'll be able to find your own niche too. Be more mature, stick your nose in the air and live your life.

Big farking deal. My father is a Colombian Jew and my mother is a white methodist. I look like a midget dark skinned Jug eared nosferatu. I got called all manner of racial slurs in high school.

But I blew it off, because I realized it was just farking high school.

I do not want to hear that the school should be out there protecting the snowflakes. Because pussy parents of pussy kids will sue if you even give the kids a harsh look.

High is a Darwinic rite of of life passage. You take the good with the bad, and you move on.

I would love a big pile of cash, maybe I should sue because i got a wedgies in 1982.

skinink: Asinine? The article stated that the school did not properly address his complaints, that they basically did nothing. It would be nice to see, in addition to the award, someone being fired for their role in bullshiat like this. Hopefully the kid went to college and is having a better experience there.

At what point do you decide to maybe...grow a pair? Don't go off and pull a columbine cuz that's actually not brave,but um, be a quiet loner. Having tons of friends and getting through school w/o a scratch isnt a right.

"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."

- Samuel Johnson

"Why's everybody always pickin' on me?"

He can take that money and go to Thailand and have a vagina installed.

Marla Singer's Laundry: cookiefleck: skinink: Asinine? The article stated that the school did not properly address his complaints, that they basically did nothing. It would be nice to see, in addition to the award, someone being fired for their role in bullshiat like this. Hopefully the kid went to college and is having a better experience there.

At what point do you decide to maybe...grow a pair? Don't go off and pull a columbine cuz that's actually not brave,but um, be a quiet loner. Having tons of friends and getting through school w/o a scratch isnt a right.

At what point do you decide to maybe...read the article? Or maybe you did and racist torment is okay?

I don't wanna feed what could possibly be a troll, but, I did read the article. I also took my experince as being the ONLY latina in school through my jr. high years, and learned to think on my toes. If you don't react it becomes less fun, also if you happen to be kinda funny and are cute in an imp-ish sorta way helps. But in his case the school's job is to provide you w/ a basic education. It doesn't promise you a bed of roses.

mikdeetx: Marla Singer's Laundry: theflatline: He can take that money and go to Thailand and have a vagina installed.

I think you mean Switzerland. Thailand is for renting them.

You're both wrong - gender re-assignment surgery is done right here in the U.S. - in Trinidad, Colorado. Look it up farkers!
In Thailand they do it without all of the screening or head shrinking process that is recquired in the states. Hell, you can get it done here in Colombia.

Marla Singer's Laundry: At what point do you decide to maybe...read the article? Or maybe you did and racist torment is okay?

At what point did you decide to judge that racist torment is most certainly worth $1.25 million but all the other kinds of torment aren't worth squat?

Notabunny: theflatline: Big farking deal.

You're completely missing the point, which is that the school has a legal obligation they did not meet.

School has an obligation to have everyone get a long,hold hands and sing kumbaya? Didn't know that. The school is there to keep you alive during those hours teach you how to pass a test and get you outta there.

Notabunny: theflatline: Big farking deal.

You're completely missing the point, which is that the school has a legal obligation they did not meet.

I am not missing the point, but being PC has turned into a double edge sword.

If the school would of reprimanded the students who called him a beaner, wetback, spic, or whatever the slur might have been, then the accused parents would have lawyered up as well.

Will now be suing Roosevelt High School:

I was the fat kid and got picked on to the point I used to make myself sick so I could go home. Can I get 1.25mil for what happened in one of your schools in the 90s, NYS?

/Paterson just can't see the problems plaguing schools these days.
//Old joke is old.

cookiefleck: Um....Buck up. Realize that your school years arent the only thing you have to look foward to. Once you get to college, yeah there are the same kinda asshats, but you'll be able to find your own niche too. Be more mature, stick your nose in the air and live your life.

ubersexy: All through grade school I was chased and beaten on by thugs that had to repeat the 5th and 6th grade.
It is called "building character" and "welcome to the real world".
Did I ever "tell" on them? NO. Code of school yard ethics. You fight when challenged, take your beating, and you never "tell" no matter what.

Some people can take that shiat, and some can't. It's not like the adults at the school didn't know something was going on--I work in the schools, and those kids are watched like a hawk. Because they're all insane now, and if you aren't watching them constantly, even the "good" kids will do something like take a shiat in the hallway or steal everything that isn't nailed down. But I digress.....

Being bullied in school is abuse, and it leaves its mark just like any other abuse. Maybe it won't affect you for years after leaving school....but maybe it will. If the jury heard the whole story and decided that this kid's story was worth a million dollars, then maybe it was.

By high school, I came to a combination of learning how to dress and groom, and embracing my quirky personality and choosing my friends wisely.

As for the torture in Junior High, I'd like to exact revenge, and $1.25M would be satisfactory.

Now, how can I get a million busk from my parents for dressing me in polyester and horn-rim glasses in junior high?

I decided before my kids were born that they wouldn't be yoked with looking like a dweeb.

Good for this kid but I want my bully funds too. I used to wake up every morning thinking "It's torture time, it's torture time."

I would like to sue my most significant bullies and their families rather than school districts ... that'd learn 'em. Kimmy et al, you owe me 1 mil each.

bmr68: Btw subby Pine Plains SD is up in the Woodstock, N.Y. area.

Pine Plains and Woodstock are about as different as Hank Williams and the Grateful Dead. One's a farm town with a few second homes sprinkled around, the other's a place where rich yuppies go to align their chakras and pretend it's still 1969.

The plaintiffs' lawyer may have seen himself an easy mark in a country-bumpkin school district that didn't have their shiat together when it came to complying with the whim of every dictate out of Albany.

And now a big can of worms gets opened. Wait until the first Chinatown kid sues the NYC public school system because the thugs pick on him.

Marla Singer's Laundry: I was busy judging "Lady Gaga vs. Testicle-Crushing Lawn Chair".

We'll skip the photo exhibits, thanks.