Wealthy School Apologizes For Insulting Chants

[Scooter24]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/education/5912581/detail.html

MIDDLETON, Wis. -- Officials at a Wisconsin high school are apologizing for insults chanted at a basketball game.

In their chant, fans of a suburban Madison school insulted their city opponents by suggesting they need food stamps to eat.

The Middleton High School fans chanted "food stamps, food stamps" and "Os-car May-er" during a game against Madison East on Dec. 20.

Middleton is a well-to-do suburb, while 40 percent of Madison East's students are eligible for federally subsidized lunches.

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[acmavm]

1. That's because parasites like the parent's of these kids are sucking

the lifeblood out of this country. One of the most stellar representatives is Wilbur Ross. He's certainly not using food stamps. But the people who work for him probably do at times. And he killed the breadwinners in twelve families.

[Binka]

28. Privileged Sperm That Is All

Wilbur Ross should be thrown in fucking jail. CRIMINAL!!!!!

[Yollam]

2. But East won the game.

I hope they literally wiped the floor with the snobby kids.




It always amazes me how arrogant the children of the rich can be, considering they themselves had no part in earning the wealth they enjoy. A more appropriate attitude would be gratitude for their undeserved good fortune.

[xultar]

15. Now that's what I'm talkin about. Call me what you want...I'll kick your

ass when and where it counts.

[crikkett]

24. Snots/nots, they're KIDS, problem is what parents+school teaches them.

And good on East for winning the game.

[northzax]

3. we used to chant

"That's alright, that's ok, you'll be working for us one day" classless, to be sure. But then, we dealt with chants of "nigger" and "chink" directed at our players. So that wasn't very classy either. reverse snobbery isn't any better than primary snobbery.

but ours were more directed towards education level, not financial level. Any school that allows it to continue (and mine did stop it, eventually) should be ashamed of themselves.

[JI7]

4. what a bunch of assholes

their parents must be also since it doesn't appear they taught them any better.

[rucky]

5. In my old high school, the rich kids once threw tortillas

onto the basketball court when our team was introduced before a game against their school.

15 years later there's still a huge rivalry going on.

BTW, we took state that year!

[northzax]

7. hey, in college

someone threw a severed calf's head on the ice of a hockey game against our arch-rivals. Give up a goal? have rotten fruit thrown at you. it's just the way it was.

[rucky]

8. Did you go to a Hindu college?

My high school was a majoriy Hispanic.

[northzax]

10. no,

my point was that kids do stupid things when athletics are involved. There is a veritable tradition of the fans of weaker teams (and Duke) basically being assholes to visiting teams that are likely to beat them. I've had just about every insult possible hurled at me on the court in high school, racial, ethnic, religious, sexual and others. some were actually clever, most were stupid and banal. It's abusive, certainly, but as long as it's limited to words, then it just makes the school look classless, nothing else. The teams basically ignore it, or use it to motivate themselves.

Hey, we live in a world where racist stereotypes are held up as mascots of professional sports teams, what do we expect?

[rucky]

11. everybody does it so it's okay

I know it's just two guys talking here, but if you were a school administrator, the parents would have your head on a pike by now. Schools MUST do something about this crap - especially because it's as common as you say it is. (in this case, they did. It was a big story in the news & there were many angry parent/student protests & public apologies).

[northzax]

14. as long as turnabout is fair play

most high school conferences now have sportsmanship rules for fans as well, assign a few technical fouls, kick out the crowds, and people behave better. yes, schools should enforce sportsmanship, even among fans. Racial, sexist or religous taunts should be punished, certainly, since they are unneccesarily insulting. Friendly rivalries, based in respect, are not a bad thing, however,

[Skittles]

6. my dad would have trashed me, had I done something like that

he came from a very poor background

[Scooter24]

9. My parents would have also...

I come from a very well-to-do family, but snobbery was never allowed and would really tick of the parents.

However, some students just don't get the clue and continue to live in their own little bubble. Things like this are alive and well right here in my own neighborhood.

Take this gem that happened in my hometown from this past November, it's an appalling read:

Students: Dress not offensive
By Joshua Benton, Scott Farwell, and Kristen Holland
Staff Writers
Page 1B

Students at Highland Park High School dressed as gang members, rap stars, maids and yard workers this month during homecoming week - a tradition one Dallas civil-rights leader says is racially insensitive.

On senior Thug Day, students wore Afro wigs, fake gold teeth and baggy jeans. On Fiesta Day, which was to honor Hispanic heritage, one student brought a leaf blower to school.

...

Senior Katie Braden, who said she wore a LeBron James jersey that day, said she had heard that other high schools have a "Highland Park Day," when students dress up to make fun of Highland Park students. She considers it all in good fun. "It's not like we called it 'South Dallas Day' or anything," she said.

...

"If they have interactions with blacks or Hispanics, it's typically someone serving them a soft drink or the Mexican who cuts their lawn."Highland Park High's student body is about 94 percent white. The school has six black, 65 Hispanic and 32 Asian students.

http://www.clipfile.org/clips/001419.php

[Skittles]

13. ya, I live in north Texas and remember this incident

very tasteless stuff

[wickerwoman]

12. Insight: My high-school sucked!

Each class year got it's own name. We were the "K-Mart Shoppers". I didn't even know to be offended at the time. Of course, the mascot was the "Chiefs" for years and years and years and everyone made fun of the Native American teacher who objected. Sigh...

Also, my freshman year we had a "Spirit Keg" which the parents objected to because it promoted drinking. So the replaced it with.... wait for it.... the "Spirit Trashcan". I shit you not. Who said irony was dead?

[sandnsea]

16. I'm shocked at these posts

Not judging anybody, just absolutely shocked. Tortillas on the basketball floor??? I have never heard of any of this sort of behavior, not at the 3 high schools I attended, or the 3 that my kids attended, or any other high school anybody else I've ever talked to attended. Rivalries to be sure. Stealing trophies and all that sort of thing. But never anything as derogatory as this stuff. I don't even know what to make of it all. Is it regional?? Generational?? Wow, call me bubblehead because I just never knew.

[northzax]

17. hey, I spent 15 posts yesterday

explaining why the Confederate Battle Flag didn't belong in the classroom, I was told, repeatedly, by DUers, that it didn't matter that someone had reason to be offended, the Student's right ot free speech was paramont. Don't really see why this is any different.

[sandnsea]

19. I saw that thread

Yoiks, back away slowly. And yeah, if the Confederate Flag is freedom of speech than so is a flying tortilla. Holy moley. Honestly, I went to one high school with a large hispanic population and I guarantee you there were no flying tortillas there!!

[northzax]

20. really? no food fights in a cafeteria?

my school had a large Jewish contingent, and there was always a Matzoh Ball thrown in the odd food fight.

[sandnsea]

21. Uhm, well, uh

I wasn't really a cafeteria sort of a girl, it was the 70's and all, know what I mean? :rofl:

[Raine]

18. Those students

sound like they will fit really well into the rethug party once they're old enough to join. :puke:

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. It's unclear in the story where the game was played

But I think it's pretty safe to assume it was at Middleton.

Assuming also by "city opponents" this was a league game, that means the two will likely play again — at Madison East.

Heh heh heh. :evilgrin:

[roguevalley]

23. fuckers. Inherited everything they will ever get. I would be slashing

their tires.

[salin]

25. fuel a thirty year 'war' per rhetoric about the undeserving poor

and its bound to be picked up and repeated by kids. It is sadly, inevitable.

[Ian David]

26. Our cheers and taunts were confined to making fun of their mascots

It included plenty of off-color remarks along the lines of "choking the chicken," for example. And burning a dummy in their school uniform during the per-rally bonfire.

In retrospect, burning the dummy is kind of dark. But I don't remember anyone ever doing something so disrespectful on the field or off.

Our school and coaches insisted we behave professionally at all times when competing.

Once, for example, one of our wrestlers did an illegal and dangerous move during a match. Our coach threw a fit and forfeited the kids match. And then he forfeited the rest of the matches and brought us home early.

When I think about how athletics is meant to be played, that's what I think of-- a coach calling foul on his own team when it counts.

[zbdent]

27. Glad the Madison East team won

Kinda like when I hear "Steelers Suck!" from na(t)ive Cleveland Browns fans.

I so much want to call in to the radio station and say "Well, if the Steelers suck so badly, what does that say about the Browns losing 41 to nothing?"

[dogday]

29. Look to the parents of these kids

to find our where this comes from. The rich have a huge distaste for the poor. It is a shame and understandable since money is their only friend....