Hate crimes come home to roost...
A couple of disturbing events at Garfield High School - from
KOMO-TV:
bq. The alleged target was a drama teacher, and the suspects are some of her students.
bq. When Carol Ross got to her classroom last November, she found: "a ferret with a nail through its head hanging from our storage loft." Just to the left of the ferret, swastikas were drawn on the wall. Two weeks later, she found a black noose hanging from the wall.
bq. Though the incidents happened a while back, those with the NAACP and the American Jewish Committee held a news conference Friday timed with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to condemn the acts of hate.
bq. "The school of Garfield High was violated," said Rick Harkavy with the American Jewish Committee. "So it's appropriate that this weekend, we educate ourselves not only on what happened, but we understand that the legacy of Dr. King says in our community, such acts of hate should not be tolerated."
Sure you can say that it's "just kids letting off some steam" and "they don't really mean anything - they were just kidding" but still - these acts are not cool and the children who did this should be found and brought to light.
Where are their parents? Do these kids go home to an empty house each afternoon and jack into an unsupervised internet and play games instead of doing their homework?
Sheesh!
Posted by DaveH at January 16, 2004 12:29 PM