Elementary
School Calls Police on 3rd-Grader for This INSANE Reason
At an
end-of-the-year party at an elementary school in New Jersey, a third grader
made a comment about the brownies being served to the class – a comment that a
fellow student claimed was “racist.” As a result, school officials called the
police.
When the police arrived at William
P. Tatem Elementary School in Collingswood, the officer questioned the
9-year-old as to what exactly he said. Because of the incident, the “racist”
student had to spend the last day of school at home.
Police contacted the boy’s father
later that day to let him know what had happened and had referred the case to
the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The Philadelphia
Inquirer explained:
The increased police involvement follows a May 25 meeting among the
Collingswood Police Department, school officials, and representatives from the
Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, where school officials and police both said
they were told to report to police any incidents that could be considered
criminal, including what Police Chief Kevin Carey called anything “as minor as
a simple name-calling incident that the school would typically handle
internally.”
The police and schools were also advised that they should report “just
about every incident” to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and
Permanency, Carey said.
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