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Boy, 7, branded a racist for asking schoolmate: 'Are you brown because you come from Africa?'
Mail Online ^ | 2/19/2012

Posted on 02/20/2012 4:25:14 AM PST by Altura Ct.

The mother of a seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist after he asked another pupil about the colour of his skin.

Elliott Dearlove had asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’.

His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a ‘racist incident’.

She was then summoned to a meeting with Elliott, his teacher and the deputy head of Griffin Primary School in Hull.

Ms White, an NHS healthcare assistant, said: ‘When I arrived at the school and asked Elliott what had happened, he became extremely upset.

'He kept saying to me, “I was just asking a question. I didn’t mean it to be nasty” and he was extremely distressed by it all.’

Ms White claimed she was asked at the meeting to read a copy of the school rules and in particular its zero-tolerance policy on racism.

‘I was told I would have to sign a form acknowledging my son had made a racist remark which would be submitted to the local education authority for further investigation,’ she said.

‘I refused to sign it and I told the teacher in no way did I agree the comment was racist. My son is inquisitive. He always likes to ask questions, but that doesn’t make him a racist.’

The school had launched an investigation after the younger boy told his mother about Elliott’s comment and she complained.

...Last year, it was revealed that teachers are branding thousands of children racist or homophobic following playground squabbles.

More than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger were put on record for so-called hate crimes such as using the word ‘gaylord’.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: zerotolerance
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1 posted on 02/20/2012 4:25:21 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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2 posted on 02/20/2012 4:28:25 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Altura Ct.

The speech and thought police will soon be here to make your children comply to the rules of political correctness.


3 posted on 02/20/2012 4:29:23 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: DH
Yes, the Food Police have already struck. 1984 is here, now. And Big Sis is contemplating having drones patrol everyday citizens. Even if we retake control, will there be enough of this once great country to save?
4 posted on 02/20/2012 4:34:26 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Altura Ct.
First you make the lists then it's “Night and Fog.”

Obama can't wait to do it here.

5 posted on 02/20/2012 4:34:48 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
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To: Altura Ct.

I never dreamed that they had a form to say a child was racist.

Where have we gone?


6 posted on 02/20/2012 4:39:44 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Altura Ct.

Where was all this pent up racial frustration when we had a white president?


7 posted on 02/20/2012 4:42:10 AM PST by wolfcreek (‘closed eye’ mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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“Where was all this pent up racial frustration when we had a white president?”

Waitin’ for PAYBACK time.


8 posted on 02/20/2012 4:49:09 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Altura Ct.

Last year, it was revealed that teachers are branding thousands of children racist or homophobic following playground squabbles.

More than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger were put on record for so-called hate crimes such as using the word ‘gaylord’.


9 posted on 02/20/2012 4:49:56 AM PST by Irenic
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To: treetopsandroofs

Burning bridges NOT a good idea.


10 posted on 02/20/2012 4:49:59 AM PST by wolfcreek (‘closed eye’ mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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To: Altura Ct.
We are to celebrate diversity by pretending it does not exist.

11 posted on 02/20/2012 4:53:49 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Altura Ct.

Fools in charge.


12 posted on 02/20/2012 4:55:57 AM PST by Will88
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To: wolfcreek

This incident was in the Ubnited Kingdom, not the USA.


13 posted on 02/20/2012 4:56:19 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Altura Ct.

“...lyin’ to the races...”


14 posted on 02/20/2012 5:05:51 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (religion + guns = liberty)
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To: Vaquero

I was told a story about an incident involving the four year old grandson of an acquaintance of mine. Her grandson was telling her all about Mathhew, his friend from his pre-school. Something about what he said clued grandma that mathhew might be African- American, so she asked if Matthew was black. The grandson answered, “No, he’s more like a nice shade of chocolate.”

Is this racism?


15 posted on 02/20/2012 5:06:29 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Altura Ct.
hate crimes such as using the word ‘gaylord’.

What's wrong with Gaylord, there's a city in Michigan by that name....?

16 posted on 02/20/2012 5:06:43 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: Altura Ct.

Sticks and stones will break your bones but name calling will resort in your life being destroyed and long prison terms for you, your family and your friends.

PS cracker, homie, whitey, opie, are exempt


17 posted on 02/20/2012 5:08:45 AM PST by winodog
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Now if the 7 year old had said to a classmate ‘Are you a Fag because you like to watch me go pee pee....?’


18 posted on 02/20/2012 5:15:20 AM PST by TRY ONE (Obummer: The economy sucks......might as well go play golf)
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To: Altura Ct.

If one of my kids was involved in an innocent question and I was summoned to school, everyone involved wouldn’t know which arse hole to use cause I would rip then all a new one...these people are crazy...


19 posted on 02/20/2012 5:16:05 AM PST by goat granny
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To: Altura Ct.

That’s so gay.


20 posted on 02/20/2012 5:16:17 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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