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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating British culture
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:20:28 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701  <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>On Jul 18, 2025 at 1:42:19 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 7/17/2025 1:13 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>  On Jul 16, 2025 at 3:33:02 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>  
>>>>  Her entire school had a Cultural Diversity Day and all students were
>>>>  told to wear something celebrating her own culture instead of the usual
>>>>  school uniforms so she wore a dress that was essentially a British flag.
>>>>  She was an A student but found herself punished for her choice of
>>>>  clothing - along with other students - and her parents were called to
>>>>  pick her up early.
>>>> 
>>>>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2jV5qxE4g [8 minutes]
>>>> 
>>>>  Her parents were not at all happy and her community was very agitated as
>>>>  well. The school gave an after-the-fact "apology" where they promised to
>>>>  reconsider how the event was run the next year. I'll believe that when I
>>>>  see it!
>>>  
>>>  Oh, I'm sure they are truly reconsidering how the event will be run in the
>>>  future. This time around, the flyer with the instructions for the event said
>>>  to come dressed in a manner expressing your nationality or family heritage,
>>>  and didn't exclude white native-born British nationality and heritage.
>>>  
>>>  After reconsideration, I'm sure they'll conclude that where they went wrong
>>>  was not making it clear from the start that the event doesn't include white
>>>  people and/or British history or culture. Next year's flyer will be sure to
>>>  make that explicit, with instructions to the white kids to just wear their
>>>  normal school uniforms while everyone else dresses up.
>> 
>> Or... they could say that, since everyone at the school is daily 
>> surrounded by British culture, the event is meant to showcase a variety 
>> of others.
>
>You'd make a wonderful school administrator.

Oh! That's mean.