That is stupidIn your opinion.
Some would say these people are also stupid:
Well, he seems to know about the racial feelings of every administrator. I didn't see that in the story.
This is ridiculous.Of course he did. Uhhhh...he missed his entire head and mouth region.
A Muirlands Middle School student was suspended recently for wearing black face paint on his cheeks, chin and under his eyes at a high school football game in what Muirlands claims was a mimicking of blackface, or painting one’s face in dark, exaggerated makeup to mock or ridicule Black people.
Though the suspension notice cites “offensive comment [or] intent to harm,” the student’s family argues he painted his face after seeing his friends do it when he arrived at the game and that he had no racial motivations.
It isn’t yet known why the other students painted their faces or whether they also were subject to discipline. It’s common for football players to wear dark face paint to fight glare from lights, and for fans to do it in a show of support.
Neither the student nor his family members are being identified because he is a minor.
Muirlands Middle School Principal Jeff Luna said he could not comment about student disciplinary actions.
To try to clear his academic record, the student’s family hired the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, a Philadelphia-based free-speech advocacy organization, to defend him with the school.
FIRE said in a statement Oct. 13 that the student “attended a local high school football game [and] many game attendees wore face or body paint.”
“One of [the student’s] classmates painted [his] face while at the game” and the student wore the paint without complaints from other people at the game, according to the statement.
“My understanding is a lot of people were wearing face paint and he wanted to join in on the fun,” FIRE’s director of public advocacy, Aaron Terr, told the La Jolla Light.
Terr said the student’s father told him “the friend had an idea based on something he saw online of people wearing something similar.”
The family did not respond to the Light’s request for comment.
About a week after the game, FIRE said, the student and his parents were summoned to a meeting with the principal, where the student was told he would be suspended for two days for wearing blackface at the game and would be prohibited from attending school athletic events.
FIRE told the school in a letter that the student “followed a popular warpaint-inspired trend of athletes applying large amounts of eye black under their eyes, which has no racial connotations whatsoever.”
The family appealed the suspension to the San Diego Unified School District to try to keep it off the student’s academic record as he progresses through high school and college. However, the appeal was denied, according to FIRE.
Terr said this week that the decision to deny the appeal was delivered the same day FIRE sent a letter outlining its legal opinion that the student was exercising free speech protected by the First Amendment and that his face paint had no racial undertones.
“We’re hoping ... the district will reconsider the request for the suspension appeal,” Terr said.
The district’s policy also is not to comment about student disciplinary actions.
If the request is denied or the district doesn’t respond by Wednesday, Nov. 22, the family will consider legal action, Terr said.
“The First Amendment protects public school students’ right to free speech,” Terr said. “Public schools do not have absolute authority over students. They can punish students over free-speech issues if they can show there was a major disruption to the education of the other students, [but] there is no evidence of disruption here. It was a harmless display of school spirit at a football game.” ◆
La Jolla student's suspension over 'offensive' black face paint at football game draws objections
The Muirlands Middle School student's family says his actions were innocent and hires a free-speech advocacy organization to defend him with the school.www.lajollalight.com
Ok, so you know what that means in this instance? Do you teach dodgeball at this school?
No. But I can read and research further where other articles include…”A disciplinary notice said J.A. “painted his face black at a football game” and characterized the incident as an “offensive comment, intent to harm.”
Ah, so zero inside info just like everyone else. Just repeating the parents claims. Thanks for nothing, as usual.
Yeah. You’re lost. We get it. You have evidence of the kid’s face. You know what the form said he was suspended for. And you choose to walk around blindfolded because seeing the truth right in front of you hurts you…for some reason. Well we know the reason, but still.
You repeat the parents claims like that’s some sort of proof. Go coach more dodgeball.
How much more stupid do you plan on looking here? Also have no idea what dodgeball has to do with anything.
Right, that information has been available for days. It doesn’t tell us what happened at the game or why they decided suspension was appropriate. No one here was at the game or at the meeting with the parents. The school can’t comment. But feel free to be outraged, it’s what you live for.How much more stupid do you plan on looking here? Also have no idea what dodgeball has to do with anything.
But here you go dummy. Now go ahead an pretend the parents fabricated their own discipline slip. You’ve gone this far. Why not!?
So where it says DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT: Painted face black at football game. And “Offensive comment/ intent to harm” are checked under “Hate incident”, you’re unable to gather what he got suspended for? Way to go Columbo!
I don’t care about the parents claims. I’ve coached hundreds of kids in baseball where eyeblack is really common. Kids do all kinds of stuff on their face - covering cheeks, adding a beard, stripes, drawing a picture, etc. The pic I saw was basically the covering his cheeks variety (nothing on forehead, nose, around mouth. I know nothing about that kid, so maybe he’s a seething racist, but I’ve seen plenty of kids do really similar things because they’re 8-14 and have an eyeblack stick. They’re not thinking about mocking black kids.
Right, and none of those kids youve seen or any of his friends doing the same thing got suspended.
I need to see more, but given the way kids this age act and given the fact that the kid is in California (home of the libs) and given the fact that there was zero attempt to put anything approaching an even coat of realistic darkness across his face and given the fact that there was clearly no attempt to cover his entire face……the bar to show that this is racist/mockingly racist in intent would be pretty high for me.
What is he hurting? Let the kids live their lives, if he wants to be called Sally and show up for games in a sundress and high heels and lipstick, let him live his best life. Why are you in favor of inhibiting his personal expression when it isn't hurting anybody? Live and let live, I say.
Great, you think it's stupid. I think it's stupid my 16 year old dressed like a hick for one of their themed student section games. Neither has anything to do with a principal trying to create a racial issue where one doesn't exist. I'll say it again, people like this principal need to be vilified and removed from leadership positions in this country en mass.
”home of the libs”
I think I have no idea what happened. But if all his friends were doing it like his folks said then why was only he suspended?
Racist. I hope he got doxxed and has his life ruined. Get on it local race baiters.
