11-year-old sent to principal's office for telling fellow students to stop making Nazi salute

What a brave child. Her parents must be proud.

They allowed students to continue to make Nazi salute for weeks, as this poor girls kept privately telling them it was wrong. Then when the "Living History" play is finally put on, and some in the audience of students gives a Nazi salute back to the "Hitler" and the girl yells at them to put their hands down, Mrs. A sends her to the principal's office---instead of the students doing the Nazi salute! And then the principal basically agrees with Mrs. A.

Sickening.

Here's an excerpt from the article, which includes the fact that she was able to address this issue later in an awards ceremony. It sounds as if the real problem is the other kids who keep making the salute to her, and their parents need to get involved, IMHO.

She was ostracized, whether Mrs. A intended to or not, by being sent to the principle's office. Just because no additional punishment occurred in the principal's office does not obviate the fact that being sent there was its own punishment. Mrs. A should have sent the saluting students to the principal's office, instead of the girl. How Mrs. A and the principal handled the situation was stupid and sickening.

But I still think it's a clickbait headline.

It is not clickbait because it is not misleading. She really was sent to the principal's office. Mrs. A claims she did to give the girl a place to "calm down." That is discipline. You send misbehaving childen to the principal's office to calm down, not kids doing the right thing. What Mrs. A did, and what the principal acquiesced to, was outrageous. It is definitely worth a headline.

It certainly implies that she was disciplined for it, and I think that they were just trying to calm down the situation.


Having a Hitler re-enactment was probably a really bad idea, though.

Not the Hitler salutes themselves. SHE was the one sent to the principal's office, not the Nazi saluting kids. That is outrageous.

Agree!

"She was taken out of the room to calm down"

The Nazi saluters were not sent to the principle to 'calm down'.

Because it didn't make sense. And as Judge Judy says, "It it doesn't make sense, it's not true."

It was a bad project, to start with, and the school is not going to assign a project involving Hitler again. Good.

 The only "situation" they were trying to "calm down" was the girl's objections to the salutes--not the Hitler salutes themselves. SHE was the one sent to the principal's office, not the Nazi saluting kids. That is outrageous.

The headline leads readers to think it was the fact that it was a Nazi salute that was the issue. But really, this was a case of bullying or being razzed by fellow students. They were doing the salute because of the play where the girl was playing Hitler, so the students were razzing her.

It seems she got overly upset. The article doesn't address what the school said to the students who were doing the razzing, and you KNOW the school said something. The school is also not going to do a play involving Hitler again, recognizing that it created the situation.

It would be no different from if the students in the play were supposed to make a "ffft" sound at the girl's character, in the play, and then started doing that to her when they saw her in the halls.

The only reason this was an article was because it was a Nazi salute and not a "fffft."

The article explicitly states: "During the awards ceremony for the project, several students gave the salute when the student who portrayed Hitler went up to receive her award and were not reprimanded." Why insert facts not presented, and ignore facts stated?

Why are you suggesting she deserved to be sent to the principal's office because she was "overly upset" about the Nazi salutes? How was her reaction so over the top in yelling at the kids to put their hands down that she needed to be sent to the principal's office?

Do you think it was appropriate to send her to the principal's office, universally seen as a disciplinary measure, for being upset over a Nazi salute?

The article didn't address the other students. Only the student who is the subject of the article and who was being razzed by other students.

The article's title makes it seem like students who were for some reason unconnected to the girl, were doing Nazi salutes, so the girl reported that calmly, since doing a Nazi salute is wrong in a school. That is not what happened.

End..of...story.

From the article:



The headline does not imply the students were "unconnected" to the girl. The headline explicitly states they were her "fellow students." And she did report it calmly, and privately, for weeks. As the article notes. She was bulled over her requests. Then, at the ceremony, she tells the students to put their hands down, and she gets sent to the principal's office---not the Nazi saluters! That is pretty newsworthy. Hence the headline: "11-year-old sent to principal's office for telling fellow students to stop making Nazi salute"

As headlines go, that's about as accurate as it gets.

And doing Nazi salutes is wrong anywhere, not just "wrong in a school."

It is a little poorly worded, but if you read carefully the girl who was assigned to play Hitler was not the same girl who got upset and was sent to the principal’s office.


So the girl who got “overly upset” was not the one being razzed by the students making the hand gesture.

So I would disagree with you. The girl who was sent to the principal’s office was not upset about being bullied. She was upset that other students were making a Nazi gesture.

after they gave the salute when the girl who played Hitler went on stage. (Note that the girl who played Hitler is not the girl who is the main subject of the article).

Given that, I would not say it is fair to assume the school said something.

of the girl being removed from the class.

In any case, this was not a case of a bunch of Nazi-approving students giving the salute all around the school or to the girl, in support of Naziism, which is what the title implies. It was a case of razzing or bullying.

Any spokesperson can make someone look good that is why some people hide behind them.

This student was very smart and also very socially aware, a future Democrat. But still a child. And so I think over-reacted somewhat to the fact that some fellow students, as to be expected, were using it away from the play. Even if just to annoy her. That's what kids do. Especially if another kid tells them not to and how much it bothers them.

If they were doing some kind of play about that era, including Hitler, it makes sense that they would be using the salute to portray the Nazis. Maybe it isn't a good idea to re-enact that era, but that's not the issue here.

Its more about kids being kids. Or most likely boys being boys. Many just knew that Hitler was a "bad man" and I'm sure took delight in using that gesture to be the bad guy in the face of the more reserved students. To bug them. And this student got overly emotional and it was appropriate that they remove her and talk with the principal, not to discipline, but to get her to explain her side and calm down.

We must stay calm, above all.

Shame she was disciplined for being "hysterical" and that some are excusing such behavior as "boys will be boys". Disgusting! But, not unexpected.