More News From The Place Where England Used To Be

A girl in high school missed class the day before, when a project was assigned to groups of students. So she got into class the next day and the teacher assigned her a group to work with. Make that, a group of four NON-English speakers and one bilingual kid. The girl goes to ask the teacher if she can work with a group of students who speak the same language as she does. The teacher's reaction? ". . . she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'." and then the girl was arrested.

What? Why the hurt feelings? I mean, after a few hours in a bare cell by herself, she was released without charges, wasn't she?

Hold on there.

If this had happened to one of my children, there would have been (to use a euphemism) a scene between me and at least one or two of the people "working" at that school. From their end, it would look something like this*:



Lost in the noise, apparently, is the obviously-raaaaaaaacist question of what the non-English speakers were doing in the classroom in the first place . . .

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*This is not me. My beard is much thicker, and my hair much thinner, than this guy's.