CdwJava
Senior Member
Or, investigating your identified suspect pool.Maybe, maybe, that would have been the appropriate response compared to singling out an entire underrepresented minortiry.
Have we come so far that we refuse to act on information we have just to avoid hurting feelings? How, then, would the mother of the bullied child have felt. "Oh, sorry, since the bully was black, we are not going to investigate further. Good luck." Sorry, I can't buy that.
That's not to say that the actions were definitely defensible, only that they very well could have been. Since we -0 and almost certainly, mom, as well - lack details, we shall never know.
We do not know how the school treated it. We have a young girl's story to mom, apparently. She did not indicate that she was informed that any of this was fact by a school administrator. But, the general description provided is how they might reasonably treat an investigation into this sort of complaint.I don't know if that rises to a violation of the Op's child's civil rights. there are facts not here that would be critical. As presented, not really. But it is terrible school policy and it is insanely stupid how they handled it
why couldn't have handled it as "a girl from a another school said someone who looked like you bullied them. Do you know anything about that?"
not the strongly implied "you're black and btw that's a problem in this school."
IF they were insensitive as the OP describes. Most school officials I know tend to be something less than intimidating - and very forgiving - at the grade school level, but, those positions and people in them can vary.ADD: The problem isn't that they had to figure out which black girl might have been a bully - the problem is the insensitivity.