I wholeheartedly agree with BillyClydePuckett. However, this brings up another question; Whyever would a person want to go to the South Side of Chicago?

kudos sandman! 1 hr ofthis is not going to change the viewpoints of a whole school. I do think this was agood thing tho cuz not everyone is so narrow minded that they wont even look at the grass on the other side of the fence...

When we set out to discipline people for comments they make, it can be a very slippery slope. Although many things in society need changing, not all are easily changed by the blunt force of discipline.

So the school district should just give up, right Sand. Don't even try to educate students about racism. How do you know the training wasn't effective? Oh ya, you know because two out of 625 students acted inappropriately.
Rome wasn't built in a day but someone had to lay the first brick.

Gee, I wonder why an entire hour's worth of training was not successful in changing people's beliefs and behaviors? How much did the school district have to pay to find that out?

Perhaps an extra hour of training will be successful at altering a lifetime of students' experience and opinion? Perhaps these "offending" students should be forced to listed to rap music for that hour to understand the love that is offered and shared. Or, perhaps instead of trying to squash anyone's presumed insensitive opinion in the name of implied (though not real), harmony they should encourage people to speak what they feel. At least that way it would be out in the open, and not pretend (you know, like just about everyone else in the world on all sides of this issue!).

Sorry to break the news to all you feel-the-love-tonight people, but PC is a forced, feel-good illusion -- in no way truth or a core belief for most people -- and like every other illusion it does not have nor, will it ever have, a foothold in reality.

Ja guide and protect...

Typical of this site recently. You are given just a tidbit of the story. Just enough to get folks guessing about what really went on. Just enough to get people sniping at one another. Just enough to stir the pot of ignorance.
The financial issues facing the Gazette must be very serious and have certainly impacted the depth and quality of much of their reporting.

dub190, spoken like a true racist bigot. You said, "You don't see fat people, smokers, Christians, or even the oh so hated 'homophobes' running around crying about how unfair it is, as everyone puts them down." What rock do you live under? All those groups complain that they are being picked on. Especially smokers, "Christians" (I use quotes because real Christians practice what they preach in terms of kindness, love, and the bible), and homophobes. I rarely hear of obese people complaining they get picked on. Please crawl back under your rock, dub190.

"I have to laugh at the cowards who make racist comments. they would never take their comments to the south side of Chicago, because they would not make it back. "

You are probably right. The south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town. If someone were to take their comments down there they better just beware of a man named Leroy Brown

SuperDave, that is the true beauty of it. There are no racist comments. My goodness, the "enlightened" left can be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

These self annoited "saviors of the oppressed" start yipping like a pack of dogs over the slightest hint of something that they "think" differs from what they were indoctrinated with.

This is all very confusing. The comments below seem to have little to do with the story. And exactly what "racist comments" are referred to by justsaynotomath? And besides, I thought Whitewater was closed until 2010.

I've got lots of theories here, Shopierehuh: 1.) I haven't looked seriously since my mother died unexpectedly in April and I underwent knee surgery; 2.) It's difficult to find work in the chemical dependency field when funding is being cut; 3.) It's especially difficult to find a job as a registered nurse who is currently using two canes. But I'm only on the sideslines temporarily and will be back in the game and on the front lines again soon. I have the resume and experience needed to make it back. Unfortunately, your problems seem to be more permanent.

maybe shopierehuh was commenting on the actual horror of racism?

Actually janesvillean, I was quoting Coppola's Kurtz, not Conrad's Kurtz. Yes, I know one is based on the other, albeit loosely. Did you have some "wisdom" that you wished to impart here?

Still unemployed are you, SarahBs? Do you have any theories as to why this is? Did you have any "wisdom" that YOU would care to share here
here?

I thought not.

I can only imagine what the comment or behavior where. Seriously, the article doesn't say.

Shopierehuh is a tiny, tiny man.

(I won't even mention the origin of the phrase you used and what it means in English literary terms. Look it up, if you dare.)

I guess Shopierehuh has just demonstrated the value some place on this behavior. Which is probably part of the problem.

The horror, the horror.