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Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by randompwd »

The suit is even more interesting:

> Without any meaningful investigation, or any involvement whatsoever by the school's Review Board, SFHS's president, Jason Curtis, publicly confirmed to reporters that the Photograph depicted the boys in "blackface", and promised that they would face "serious consequences"

> Directly below the Photograph of Plantiffs, Ms. Labana included text that read ..."kids participating in black face and thinking that this is all a joke"

> During the protest march, Ms Labana made public demands for the boys' explusions from SFHS

https://www.mv-voice.com/news/reports/1614639661.pdf

I think Ms Labana is in for a rude awakening if this goes to trial. Ms Labana wasn't a student, she was a parent of a student. A grown ass adult. Reading through the rest of the suit, she behaves like a petulant fascist. Can't wait to see how her employer reacts - a taste of her own medicine.

Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by sjg007 »

Instead of taking a moment and having a teaching opportunity the school has shown that it is in fact not worth the tuition. I guess a private school can do what it wants but without due process it's certainly not acting in accordance with Christian ideals.

The filing of a lawsuit itself suggests that the school administrators have clearly failed.

My experience is that it's always the parents who make things worse.

Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by fhsm »

YeBanKo wrote: post #7

Read this quote: > On June 5, Principal Katie Teekell phoned H.H.’s parents and said their son was not welcome back to the school, the lawsuit says. His father again referenced the acne masks. She replied, according to the lawsuit, that “this isn’t about intent, it’s about optics.” It's surreal.

Surprising that this a $20m ask when the Oberlin result was 2x that for what seems (albeit with very different levels of information) to be much more superficial institutional involvement.

I’ll be interested to read reporting on the trial, if it gets to one.

Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by aeoleonn »

How incredibly silly. Some people have so little to do with their lives that they're compelled to find things to be outraged about.

I've used a similar mask many times-- bentonite clay-- I like this one: Aztec Clay Mask

Here's a review of it:

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Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by aeoleonn »

AMerePotato wrote: post #10
one_x wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly how all SJW witch hunts work: - The accused is not heard even once. - The accused is presented with sentence and extorted: leave quietly or else ... - The reason is presented as a vague "harmful and damaging to the X community". The winners are always bureaucrats who have to justify their existence and love power games. Probably they also have psychopathic tendencies.

And the school's gonna eat that 20 million dollar lawsuit for it. Witch hunts on social media are one thing. Forcing students out on on a rumor of something that happened years ago is another

At least there's a silver lining! I'd happily take expulsion for $20 mil in my (and a lawyer's) pocket!

Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

AMerePotato wrote: post #10
one_x wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly how all SJW witch hunts work: - The accused is not heard even once. - The accused is presented with sentence and extorted: leave quietly or else ... - The reason is presented as a vague "harmful and damaging to the X community". The winners are always bureaucrats who have to justify their existence and love power games. Probably they also have psychopathic tendencies.

And the school's gonna eat that 20 million dollar lawsuit for it. Witch hunts on social media are one thing. Forcing students out on on a rumor of something that happened years ago is another

It's happened with many male sexual assault cases where schools vilified men on pure accusations alone and even expelled them. Then with some of these bureaucrats realized they aren't above the law to deny someone educational rights by nothing short of hearsay, they began to realize you can't crucify someone because of it.

Re: $20m suit: Bay Area school forced boys out for ‘blackface’, was green acne meds

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Post by tim333 »

MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: post #18
AMerePotato wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the school's gonna eat that 20 million dollar lawsuit for it. Witch hunts on social media are one thing. Forcing students out on on a rumor of something that happened years ago is another

It's happened with many male sexual assault cases where schools vilified men on pure accusations alone and even expelled them. Then with some of these bureaucrats realized they aren't above the law to deny someone educational rights by nothing short of hearsay, they began to realize you can't crucify someone because of it.

That's a bit of a different thing. There's more obviously a possible victim in that one than with some old photo being taken.
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