It is in my opinion that being a “kid” is not an excuse for ignorance or insensitivity. There are many children who know better. Whether that is a result of parenting or not, I can not say, as I am not a parent. But I do know that to justify and disregard their actions as a result of their age is apathetic and ignorant.

I do hope that these children’s parents, who probably were the source of this ugliness, teach them about tolerance and hatred, and school them into the harm that targeting people solely because of their religion, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and so on can do. They’re young enough that something other than punishment can reach them. But this is very disturbing to learn that after positive “spirit weeks,” they turned to something so ugly, offensive and hateful. Anti-Semitism and other forms are hate and prejudice were offensive 1,000 years ago, 100 years ago, 10 years ago, and yes, today in 2008.

Morons

c’mon, it’s kinda funny.

No, it’s not.

Yes, it is. People are way too sensitive and politically correct.

It’s ‘funny’ that this even made the news. These are 6th graders that didn’t even realize the extent of their ‘insensitivity’.

And why wouldn’t a principal know how many jews are in their school. They know how many whites there are, and how many boys there are. What makes knowing this any different. It’s only a problem if the ‘knowledge’ is used to discriminate against that particular ethnic group.

If you want to know where the kids are getting this from, tune to Comedy Central at 11 tonight.

This is disgusting news.

Even if the kids were not intending on being malevolent, this indicates a laxity on the part of their parents for any sort of propriety. If the parets in that area had been doing their jobs properly their kids would never have thought this was something funny. They would have known how utterly inappropriate and offensive such behavior is. I’m not Jewish but I am every bit as offended as I would think anyone who is Jewish would be. Furthermore, as a non-Jew I am embarassed by such rank, boorish and callous behavior on the part of other non-Jews. Of course, the kids should be disciplined, but I hope the parents are horrified at what their kids have done and that they will first hang their heads in shame and second, make it clear from now on that this sort of thing is totally out of bounds in America and has no place in school, no place in public generally and no place at home either.

As a Jewish student that went through this particular Parkway school, this does not surprise me. The kids at this school do not realize that the things they say and do effect other people. I have heard of worse things being done at West. These kids need to be educated on cultural differences between the many different cultures of the school. Action should be taken to ensure that something like this does not happen at this school again. Passing through the hallways I have often heard many comments relating to the Jewish religion, and some sort of education for these kids should take place.

Maybe I missed the last few instances, but explain how this is proof of an incompetent administrator.

This was an unofficial, unannounced day. No part of the staff knew or endorsed it, to my knowledge. The children were the only ones who knew. To be frank, it’s really not that hard for a group of kids to keep something small scale and temporary as this from hitting an adult’s radar. The Principal reacted swiftly, and sounds like she’s taking very seriously. I’m not condoning what they’ve done. However, I don’t find this to be the Principal’s “fault.” As I said earlier, she may have a pattern of idiocy, but it’s not presented here. I went to this school, and while I never did anything like this, I was a social pariah while there, and so I temper my comments with the following: these are possibly the hardest years in their childhoods. Not adults, but getting cold doses of adult realities. Junior High is by far the biggest change a child will face in the education system. They are confused, and despite growing older, are still naive on some points of social grace. I am not excusing this action, but reminding that there are likely dark corners in all of our Junior High experiences. Lord knows there were in mine.