If a kid did do this he is laughing his fucking ass off right now. They played right into his hands.
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My son mentioned to me yesterday that the Boys bathrooms were closed......
Dear Parents/Guardians,
I wanted to update you regarding our response to the anti-semitic graffiti found in one of the bathrooms on October 16th.
First, I decided to close all but one of the boys’ bathrooms. I understand that it is an inconvenience for many of our students, and I know that certain students might be out of their classes for a few more minutes than usual. I also recognize that this might seem like a punishment for many of our students based on the action of one student. However, I closed the bathrooms for the following reasons:
- I do not want to subject any more students to hateful symbols and/or hate speech this week. I am not sure that closing all but one of the boys’ bathrooms will accomplish this. However, I know from working with middle school students for over twenty-five years that a large majority of hate symbols and speech are drawn in the boys’ bathrooms. Furthermore, when students encounter hateful images and speech, they conclude the Ottoson is not an emotionally safe school. When students do not feel safe, they cannot learn.
- I want the students to know that the Ottoson teachers and administrators are upset about this incident. As a staff, we have talked to the students about how hateful images and speech impact us, other students, parents/guardians and the Arlington community. While this message may have resonated with some of our students, it did not with all our students. Closing the bathroom is a reminder that we are upset.
- While the assistant principals and I were not looking forward to another full day of being a bathroom monitor, it has given us a chance to have conversations with students about the topic. A student told me yesterday that he did not appreciate having to sign in to use the bathroom. He said he wanted to find out who was responsible. Another student confessed that he would not report graffiti to adults. I was able to have a conversation with him about the impact of hateful symbols. One student reported that he thought that some students would now be more likely to draw anti-semitic symbols. He thought closing the bathrooms would not change anything.
I understand that I cannot keep the bathrooms closed forever. However, creating conversations and letting the students know that hateful graffiti is upsetting, offsets the inconvenience of having students walk down a couple flights of stairs.
Second, I am copying an activity that the Chenery Middle School in Belmont participated in as a response to a similar incident. On Monday, we will be extending ASPIRE for an extra 20 minutes. Students will be responding to three questions:
1. What impact does having a swastika drawn in school have on you?
2. What would you say to anyone that saw the swastika?
3. What message would you want to send to the student who drew the swastika?
After a class discussion, each student will select one of their answers and write it on an index card. The responses to these prompts will be collected and posted throughout the school, especially in the bathrooms in which they occurred. We want to take back the bathroom with messages of hope and support.
Regards,
STAND BY!
WTF!
That's gotta be against OH&S and/or school board regulations to not have any bathrooms available.
I would take my sons and daughters out and sue the town being that I pay tax for a fully functional school
Thing is they no longer care that we pay tax.
You will submit, you will pay, and they will continue.
I live on the back of the tax payer.
My favorite conversations with people include me saying "Sure you can! You pay for it". Or in response to "You dont have to do this...." I say "Why not? You pay me to".
I went to a meeting of the school board. It was sparsely attended. I think everyone in the room was a regular as I was asked who I was and I think only one other person was asked.
The topic of teacher training days came up and it was proposed that the teachers needed training every Tuesday and those days would become half days.
I immediately thought this is going to suck because the kids were young and we would have to figure how to watch them on half day Tuesday.
I watched a trail of crocodile tears and bad acting as the three board members and Supt spoke of "the burden on working parents" but the training was "mission critical".
The debate lasted a few minutes and when it came time to vote the "Ayes" were immediate.
They dont give a crap.
Christ in a catamaran... If this shit happened at any of the schools I went to, IF you got caught you'd be cleaning it up, otherwise it was a non-sequitur and the janitor did it. ALL SORTS of shit got written on the walls, most of it race or gay jokes. NEVER was it a big deal. Even when I wrote an entire Ozark tale about writing tales on bathroom walls... On the bathroom walls! Unfortunately, my 4th grade teachers weren't big fans of dirty Ozark folk tales and, well, not many 4th graders are either so it turns out I was easy to catch.
I still remember the part in quotes: "Some come here to sit and think, others to shit and stink, but I come here to pull my pud because the tail in this town ain't no good." But it was an entire story, I totally covered the stall walls and it took me a while to do it.
Imagine if that arrived in your letter instead!
If you read his notification he mentions having conversations with the kids and their responses to this.
It actually sounds like the kids are more mature than the staff.
But "pud" and "good" don't rhyme.
Christ in a catamaran... If this shit happened at any of the schools I went to, IF you got caught you'd be cleaning it up, otherwise it was a non-sequitur and the janitor did it. ALL SORTS of shit got written on the walls, most of it race or gay jokes. NEVER was it a big deal. Even when I wrote an entire Ozark tale about writing tales on bathroom walls... On the bathroom walls! Unfortunately, my 4th grade teachers weren't big fans of dirty Ozark folk tales and, well, not many 4th graders are either so it turns out I was easy to catch.
I still remember the part in quotes: "Some come here to sit and think, others to shit and stink, but I come here to pull my pud because the tail in this town ain't no good." But it was an entire story, I totally covered the stall walls and it took me a while to do it.
Imagine if that arrived in your letter instead!
If you look at Ukraine war footage you will see swastikas on walls and things around, to eastern Europe its just a cross.So what about the billions of followers of eastern religions who still use it in both orientations and have it all over their buildings, statues, books etc?
Or is it only racist if you are a pale face?
Funny how overbearing they are being in demonstrating the pitfalls of nazism.
But "pud" and "good" don't rhyme.
Bougainville Rd.... ah hahaha. This again.There go our tax dollars again if this is true.
I can see the SJWs out in force claiming hatred. The buildings will need to be torn down ASAP
Bougainville Rd.... ah hahaha. This again.
The 600k they spent on making it look better in 2008 did... squat
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Meh... it was built by hippies.Maybe its just the photo but my OCD is being triggered by the furthest right building.
Seems to me the guy that laid out that building didnt have access to a trued 90 degree square and that leg is off a degree or two.
The swastika or sauwastika (as a character, 卐 or 卍, respectively) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions.[1][2][3][4]
In Asia, the swastika symbol first appears in the archaeological record around[55] 3000 BCE in the Indus Valley Civilization.[68][69] It also appears in the Bronze and Iron Age cultures around the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. In all these cultures the swastika symbol does not appear to occupy any marked position or significance, but appears as just one form of a series of similar symbols of varying complexity. In the Zoroastrian religion of Persia, the swastika was a symbol of the revolving sun, infinity, or continuing creation.[70][71] It is one of the most common symbols on Mesopotamian coins.[8]
The icon has been of spiritual significance to Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.[4][8] The swastika is a sacred symbol in the Bön religion, native to Tibet.
The swastika is an important Hindu symbol.[4][8] The swastika symbol is commonly used before entrances or on doorways of homes or temples, to mark the starting page of financial statements, and mandalas constructed for rituals such as weddings or welcoming a newborn.[8][72]
The swastika has a particular association with Diwali, being drawn in rangoli (coloured sand) or formed with deepak lights on the floor outside Hindu houses and on wall hangings and other decorations.[73]
In the diverse traditions within Hinduism, both the clockwise and counterclockwise swastika are found, with different meanings. The clockwise or right hand icon is called swastika, while the counterclockwise or left hand icon is called sauvastika.[8] The clockwise swastika is a solar symbol (Surya), suggesting the motion of the sun in India (the northern hemisphere), where it appears to enter from the east, then ascend to the south at midday, exiting to the west.[8] The counterclockwise sauvastika is less used; it connotes the night, and in tantric traditions it is an icon for the goddess Kali, the terrifying form of Devi Durga.[8] The symbol also represents activity, karma, motion, wheel, and in some contexts the lotus.[1][2] Its symbolism for motion and Sun may be from shared prehistoric cultural roots, according to Norman McClelland.[74] The Arya Samaj is of the opinion that swastik is 'OM' written in the ancient Brahmi script.[citation needed]
All true. Even so, almost all those guys you mentioned are Indo European speaking members of the Iranian branch of Satem languages. Bactrians, Sogdians, Saka, Persians, Sintachta culture Indo Aryans, (centum speaking) Tocharians, etc. If you look at the Tarim mummies and the paintings of inhabitants of those areas up until the Turkic expansion, they were mostly as green eyed and blonde or red haired as any European. And that's scientifically and archaeologically proven. We aren't talking unsubstantiated "Getica" rumors by Jordanes. Even the name "Iran" itself means "land of the Aryans" So there is a definite cultural cross-connection to that symbol from the distant past. But since hitler permanently sullied the term "aryan" that old history is hardly ever taught anymore, and in Western culture the swastica became a symbol of the nazis regardless of whatever it was before.
so yeah, I'd like to think some Central Asian kid is just interested in his ancient national history, but most likely a swastica in the boys locker room is a hitler thing. Certainly not pissing pants worthy, but not really desirable either. Although as a pragmatist, I'd be more concerned for my kid's well being if I saw a high school version of this on the locker room wall:
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well guys, if you thought that was an overreaction, get a load of this woke soyboy faggotry:
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Goodbye Ultima Thule, welcome Arrokoth! NASA renames distant space rock after woke outrage over ‘Nazi connotations’
NASA has given a new name to a remote space rock after its previous moniker came under fire in a wave of PC outrage, with progressive-minded critics insisting the name was tainted by links to Nazi Germany.www.rt.com
I mean, WTH. its a friggin space rock. there are no nazis on it. get over yourselves, you fragile leftist pansies.