11-24-2015, 05:57 PM
(11-24-2015, 05:03 PM)Au165 Wrote: No, a teacher was hired by a principal, who was hired by a superintendent, who was hired by a school board, who was elected by a community. That is too many degrees of separation from the community to say because a teacher (or even a small group within a school) did something racist the whole community should give a family $15 million. There is no way a community can make a conscious decision about the beliefs of a person within it's school district. People that are part of an organization are still free thinking humans that can change their view at any time, if someone wakes up one day and has a change of heart on how they feel about a certain ethnicity there is no way a community can reasonably be expected to know that.
As I said if there were comments made from the top down influencing such behavior it is one thing, but I highly doubt that is the case in most issues were a single person does something stupid and an entire organization receives punishment for it.
I say the police are more at fault than one single teacher. The police were the ones who questioned him and handcuffed him.
But I am also guessing that the claim against the school covers a long period of time instead of just this one incident. The family claims that the boy has been victim of unfair treatment by many school employees. They specifically allege that their son had been the victim of abuse based on his race and the school failed to do anything about it.
That whole community had worked up a pretty big hatred of all things Muslim before this incident with the clock. I will bet that the people running the schools were on the same side as the Mayor and a majority of the citizens. They considered this boy and his family as a threat to their "American values" and treated him that way.
