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SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
Sat Nov 9, 2013, 05:35 PM Nov 2013

Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools

The swastikas, the students recalled, seemed to be everywhere: on walls, desks, lockers, textbooks, computer screens, a playground slide — even on a student’s face.

A picture of President Obama, with a swastika drawn on his forehead, remained on the wall of an eighth-grade social studies classroom for about a month after a student informed her teacher, the student said.

For some Jewish students in the Pine Bush Central School District in New York State, attending public school has been nothing short of a nightmare. They tell of hearing anti-Semitic epithets and nicknames, and horrific jokes about the Holocaust.

They have reported being pelted with coins, told to retrieve money thrown into garbage receptacles, shoved and even beaten. They say that on school buses in this rural part of the state, located about 90 minutes north of New York City and once home to a local Ku Klux Klan chapter president, students have chanted “white power” and made Nazi salutes with their arms.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/nyregion/swastikas-slurs-and-torment-in-towns-schools.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Sound like wondeful place to avoid

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Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools (Original Post) SpartanDem Nov 2013 OP
If it were up to me and I had ridiculous power, I'd say "I see some of you don't like the Jews." BlueJazz Nov 2013 #1
 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
1. If it were up to me and I had ridiculous power, I'd say "I see some of you don't like the Jews."
Sat Nov 9, 2013, 06:10 PM
Nov 2013

"I don't agree with your thoughts but in fairness and to show those Jewish people a thing or two, We will make sure that you don't have to be around or use anything that has been influenced by Jews."

"..That's going to be most of your entertainment and computer stuff and a lot of food and well...just about everything."
"Have a nice life, Kiddies"

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