BERLIN – Decatur Strong.
That’s the message on the Stephen Decatur High School marquee following two student fights that led to a local newspaper’s report of racial tension at the Berlin school.
Tom Zimmer, principal at Decatur, says the students, parents and staff are trying to move forward.
“I have students that are embarrassed,” Zimmer said. “I have students that are bothered by the fact that the entire student body’s being painted by the same brush. A couple incidents occurred with small numbers of people and the student body is bothered by that. They feel like their reputation’s being soiled and they feel like the community’s looking at them in a different light.”
On Wednesday, The Daily Times published a story about two student fights that occurred last week and a racial social media post purported to relate to them. The newspaper also shared videos of the fights and a 911 recording of a call.
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9 comments:
The racists are busy promoting Ob's New World Order. Hitler was ALMOST as good at it.
Bullying is the issue. It should be dealt with in all schools swiftly. Perhaps SD and it's students are setting a good example by the way they are handling this, but we wouldn't know because that's not what the Daily Times wants to report. They want to race bait. Once again, shame of the Daily Times. I wish the victims and their families and the school well as they move forward.
I saw the video and that video is tough to watch! I think the Daily Times made a mistake with their reporting - but clearly SD has to address some of the issues in those videos - thank goodness nobody got seriously hurt - especially the young man on the ground - all it would take is his head hitting that concrete and we would have an entire different story.
SD did not have this problem when they followed a Zero Tolerance policy regarding bullying...Several black kids recently came after my child just because a white friend of his liked a black girl..It's definitely racial at SD and, very one sided...But, no one seems to want to talk about that..
How does it feel to be thrown into one basket. Sucks to be lumped into a basket just like the cops. One does wrong all are wrong. Liberal bastards what goes around comes around
Anyone who denies this is racial is blind.
A zero tolerance policy for bullying and violence causes disproportionate minority contact with authority and results in discipline statistics that portray what is actually going on in our schools. Can't have that.
The white kid is the bully-always has been- and IMO got what he deserved-a good old fashioned butt whopping.
It was a fair fight-One on one, no weapons and the black kid after knocking him down gave him a few slaps, got up and left.
I know what I'm talking about. I have known the white kid and his family for more than 10 years.
And 12:04 NAILS IT!
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