There is absolutely NO information in this stupid article. I have no idea what the kid said or why CPS and the Dad got involved. While it sounds like an interesting story, your article has NOTHING in it. Why do you swallow stuff like this?
Cookies were being passed around on the last day of school. The kid didn't know what brownies were so he said he didn't like the brown ones. Another student said that was racist. Off we go.
Every little bit of information helps.
You still haven't answered, or I just missed it.
Do you concede that schools shouldn't be calling police over racist speech? Even REAL racist speech, let alone this made up bullshit?
On third graders? Of course they shouldn't. However, those posters who were leaping into the deep end of the pool, condemning liberal teachers, blah blah blah, before knowing what was going on were also wrong. The school was apparently told they legally had to do this shit. Now that the parents have made enough noise, it sounds as if the prosecutor's office is backing off. I don't think little kids are going to be afraid of a cop asking them a couple questions; cops are gentle with little kids. Some kids probably would think it was cool as hell. It's not as big a hairy deal as some would like to make it out to be. But cops have much better things to do with their time. Of course it's nonsense to handle it as if a law had been broken. If Tipsycat has the actual statement the kid made, all it would take is two minutes with these two kids to work out the misunderstanding and get them to be friends again.
To be honest, if I was a teacher there, I don't think I could do it. Then, of course, the kid who was offended would go home and rat me out to his mother, and then the mother would complain to the principal, and then I'd get fired among allegations of being racist, but I don't think I could do it.