Whisper
November 21st, 2008, 09:44 PM
Remember hit a jew day?
LMAO
Twenty students from a Vancouver Island school were sent home Thursday after they kicked red-haired schoolmates as part of what an internet site declared "Kick a Ginger Day."
The students from Journey Middle School in Sooke got the idea of kicking their red-headed peers from the social networking website, Facebook.
The Facebook group was likely inspired by South Park, a satirical animated TV show that aired an episode declaring: "[Red-haired people] creep us out. They make us feel sick to our stomachs."
The assistant superintendent of the Sooke School District said the principal did not find the incident any laughing matter.
"He talked to them about skin colour and hair colour and how racism is closely connected," Jim Cambridge said Friday.
"He worked with those students to brainstorm about what they were going to do in terms about their own restitution for this, in terms of apologizing in terms of public service work, and all of these students will be doing a report for him on either racism or bullying."
Dave Derpak, the principal of Vancouver Technical High School, said it may be time for schools to look at restricting access to sites such as Facebook.
"Firstly, I don't think anyone has time, whether you're a vice-principal or teacher or counsellor, to be sitting and looking at Facebook, but at the same time if anything is coming to a student that is hurtful or harmful you'd want to be able to access that information and do everything you can to help that student."
Police aren't investigating the case in Sooke, but police in Courtenay, B.C., are investigating a teenager who allegedly set up the website.
LMAO
Twenty students from a Vancouver Island school were sent home Thursday after they kicked red-haired schoolmates as part of what an internet site declared "Kick a Ginger Day."
The students from Journey Middle School in Sooke got the idea of kicking their red-headed peers from the social networking website, Facebook.
The Facebook group was likely inspired by South Park, a satirical animated TV show that aired an episode declaring: "[Red-haired people] creep us out. They make us feel sick to our stomachs."
The assistant superintendent of the Sooke School District said the principal did not find the incident any laughing matter.
"He talked to them about skin colour and hair colour and how racism is closely connected," Jim Cambridge said Friday.
"He worked with those students to brainstorm about what they were going to do in terms about their own restitution for this, in terms of apologizing in terms of public service work, and all of these students will be doing a report for him on either racism or bullying."
Dave Derpak, the principal of Vancouver Technical High School, said it may be time for schools to look at restricting access to sites such as Facebook.
"Firstly, I don't think anyone has time, whether you're a vice-principal or teacher or counsellor, to be sitting and looking at Facebook, but at the same time if anything is coming to a student that is hurtful or harmful you'd want to be able to access that information and do everything you can to help that student."
Police aren't investigating the case in Sooke, but police in Courtenay, B.C., are investigating a teenager who allegedly set up the website.