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Behind the Aegis

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Fri Nov 8, 2013, 03:21 PM Nov 2013

Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools

The swastikas, the students recalled, seemed to be everywhere: on walls, desks, lockers, textbooks, computer screens, a playground slide — even on a student’s face.

A picture of President Obama, with a swastika drawn on his forehead, remained on the wall of an eighth-grade social studies classroom for about a month after a student informed her teacher, the student said.

For some Jewish students in the Pine Bush Central School District in New York State, attending public school has been nothing short of a nightmare. They tell of hearing anti-Semitic epithets and nicknames, and horrific jokes about the Holocaust.

They have reported being pelted with coins, told to retrieve money thrown into garbage receptacles, shoved and even beaten. They say that on school buses in this rural part of the state, located about 90 minutes north of New York City and once home to a local Ku Klux Klan chapter president, students have chanted “white power” and made Nazi salutes with their arms.

more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/nyregion/swastikas-slurs-and-torment-in-towns-schools.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=international-home

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Swastikas, Slurs and Torment in Town’s Schools (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Nov 2013 OP
Incomprehensible. Judi Lynn Nov 2013 #1
Most kids don't get that way on their own Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #2
I would never have expected to hear of this in New York state. freshwest Nov 2013 #3
Intolerance has outposts... JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #4
Disgusting. William769 Nov 2013 #5

Judi Lynn

(160,449 posts)
1. Incomprehensible.
Fri Nov 8, 2013, 05:04 PM
Nov 2013

Apparently education doesn't phase some people.

Here's the town on a overly simple map:

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