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Read this blog and comments. Pretty sad stuff.

freakazoid said:
Only part of me is purple, but it always involves someone else choking, and I always help them....choke.
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Man, I got a lot of neg rep for making this thread. I guess we should brush stuff like this under the rug and pretend it doesn't happen.
 
Dtol17 said:
And for the record, I just talked to a friend from Alta and there's a whole police squad there and several investigators. This is getting taken care of. Alta isn't that kind of school.
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Apparently they are. Where was anybody when all of this was going on? How was a kid wearing an offensive KKK hood in a Spanish class?

Either a lot of this story is fabricated, or the snobs are getting police involved to pretend like they care.

Alta is no different than any other high school. Just because you're rich doesn't make you any less of a douche when you're a teenager. In fact, the odds often increase.
 
unluckyseventeen said:
Apparently they are. Where was anybody when all of this was going on? How was a kid wearing an offensive KKK hood in a Spanish class?

Either a lot of this story is fabricated, or the snobs are getting police involved to pretend like they care.

Alta is no different than any other high school. Just because you're rich doesn't make you any less of a douche when you're a teenager. In fact, the odds often increase.
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My sources at the school (students and faculty) say that a lot of it was made up by the student with the blog. He blew something out of proportion. There was bad blood between the students making fun and the victim, but there was no KKK hood involved. It happened during a school assembly, the spirit bowl, which is one of the biggest events in the school during the year. In the spirit bowl, each class wears a different color representing Alta. The sophomores are red, the juniors white, and the seniors black. We get VERY involved in this and kids are decked from head to toe in their color to show their pride. This student saw an opportunity to strike back, so he accused these kids of doing something that they didn't, although they were teasing him, just not for the reasons he accused them of.

Unfortunately, the situation has been escalated because the student took this to his father instead of the administration, who was never made aware of the extent of things, just that there was some teasing involved. Oh and the student isn't black, for what it's worth. I know there can still be discrimination involved regardless of the races at hand, but this is being made to be something that it's not.

Alta is not just like every other high school. Believe it or not, different people can be brought up with different values. Alta is a community, and this kind of stuff just doesn't happen there. Sure, there's going to be idiots that slip through the cracks, but it's the moral values that are taught in schools like Alta, Bingham, Jordan, and Brighton that separate them from the Cottonwood Heights, Valley, and schools throughout the country that are faced with much more discrimination and racism than we can even comprehend. Don't pretend for a second that the Alta's of the world are anything like those that suffer much worse. We are privileged to live in the region that we are because we were taught, as a community, to be better than that. Sure, there's not the diversity here that there is...well just about anywhere else, but that doesn't mean we're snobs and douche's.

Regardless, the student that did the teasing was suspended, the student that was "victimized" got his media attention, and Alta will continue to go on as a class act of a school and the tight knit group they have always been and will continue to teach the values they have stood by since opening. That goes for the majority of the District as well.

And there are going to be rich students at any school you go to, so I don't know why you're singling out Alta here. There are far fewer "snobs" than at Brighton, Bingham, or Juan Diego, and none of those schools are bad either. It's just a large group of kids that, for the most part, all get along whether they're rich, poor, white, black, latino, indian, asian, live on South Mountain, Pepperwood, or in White City. Our schools have character.
 
Also, one of my former teachers says that they accused student never stepped within twenty feet of the accuser, that what looked like the "hail Hitler" salute happened during the student's dance routine (one of the biggest parts of the Spirit Bowl is the class dance off) and was nothing more than the dancers reaching out their arms (they did it with both arms), the "hood" was a pillowcase clearly made for the spirit bowl which didn't even cover his face, AND the student went to the media before ever saying anything to the administration. This is nothing more than a kid looking for a little bit of retaliation and attention.
 
Dtol17 said:
Also, one of my former teachers says that they accused student never stepped within twenty feet of the accuser, that what looked like the "hail Hitler" salute happened during the student's dance routine (one of the biggest parts of the Spirit Bowl is the class dance off) and was nothing more than the dancers reaching out their arms (they did it with both arms), the "hood" was a pillowcase clearly made for the spirit bowl which didn't even cover his face, AND the student went to the media before ever saying anything to the administration. This is nothing more than a kid looking for a little bit of retaliation and attention.
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Are you sure? Because if you're not, I wouldn't say that.
 
Archie Moses said:
Man, I got a lot of neg rep for making this thread. I guess we should brush stuff like this under the rug and pretend it doesn't happen.
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Crazy. Did you hear that most mormons have multiple wives?

You should start a thread about that. Utah sucks.


Racists and Womanizers. Good stuff.
 
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