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Students at a suburban St. Louis school could face disciplinary action for planning something called “Hit A Jew Day” and then following through. Possibly five students may face suspension for making unwanted and insulting physical contact during a day in which they were targeting jewish students at a school where less than 30 students are of Jewish descent.

Parkway West Middle School has found itself in a boiling controversy over the actions of this handful of students who lacked ethical and moral thinking skills critical for good personal judgement. Prior to this event taking place, students participated in “High Five Day” and other innocent games until a teacher was smart enough to catch on to the behavior of suspicious students and three students who are Jewish received minor injuries said the school.

The most serious incident of that day took place when one Jewish student was slapped in the face. At this juncture, there appears to be no police involvement and nothing more serious is planned for consequences for the students who committed what would be a hate crime by anyone else’s standards.

Outrage should be taking place nationwide to protect others from these students who seemingly cannot decide what appropriate ethical behavior is. In most other states, these students would have been arrested and would have to go through the judicial system to resolve this instead of just being given a slap on the wrist.

There is a difference between boys being boys and boys being hateful. This author is perhaps the first person to openly call this for what it is…a form of hate expressed in public where learning and a secure environment should have taken precedence. It now becomes a question of where these students got the idea and why they thought it was such a cool thing to do.

Hit a Jew day wasn’t such a hit and serious consequences need to be handed down starting with police intervention and a good encounter with the judicial system. Reality needs to be pounded into the empty skulls of these young miscreants before they re-offend and truly cause serious injury or death. Do the parents of these boys think this is all just kid stuff?

Perhaps these students got this idea from home? Home is, after all, where this should have been detected before it had a chance to make it through the planning stages. Where were the parents to supervise these criminals? Yes, I said criminals as in what these students did was criminal.

Let’s talk about what the Jewish people have been put through over the ages. Back in the early centuries they were persecuted by a king who took over their land and ejected them without cause, then there was Hitler and the death camps, and in the modern day Jewish places of worship are still sometimes defaced by ill-minded persons. This event has potential to bring back sore feelings for good cause.

That the principal did this assembly garbage to teach religious tolerance isn’t good enough because it isn’t about religion at the core of the matter. This whole fiasco is about what and who the Jewish people are as human beings, as a culture, and as the root from which we understand the very foundation of mankind started. Jewish people come from all races, ethnicities, financial status’, political conviction, and class of life.

Jewish people can be white, mixed, you name it. Perhaps a good education in suffering of the Jewish people should be mandated for these students who thought they were just the thing that day. I don’t mean any candy topped education either, I mean a face to face meeting with the Jewish community and some of the family members who are survivors by blood of holocaust victims.

How about a trip to Israel so these students can see some of the condition in which some of the Jewish people are forced to live in as the Palestinians run it in a certain region. I don’t think they would just be sorry that they carried through with their misdeeds by hitting Jewish students, but sincerely reformed to say the least!

However, since political correctness has once again run amok via this slap on the wrist they will get, we can rest assured that we will once again hear of these students as more serious criminals in the future. If they had “Hit A Female Day” they would have been the focus of a nationwide news special. Had these students had “Hit A Hispanic Day” or any other “Hit Someone Day” we can bet that world war 3 would have broken out and more serious consequences would have immediately been at play!

Everyone needs to write the school and demand equal treatment for Jewish individuals attending any school in respect to someone who commits any physical crime getting the same consequences as if they had hit a non-ethnic person. Where is this principal’s head at? Never mind, that is easily answered. The school board should fire her and expell these students, end of story.

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