His son’s not ‘ra

THE FATHER of a boy expelled from
Skeena Junior Secondary last ‘month for
calling a teacher’s aide a “nigger”, says
‘his son isn’t racist, and shouldn't have
been kicked out.

Ritchie says Cale’s behaviour was in-

appropriate, but wasn’t racist,

“He. was clowning around,” he said,
“There was no racist motive, no intent of
violence. This: was an expression of
youth,”
~ Kirk Ritchie said Cale, 15, a native,
was trying to “act cool” in front of his
classmates, when he offered Angela

~ Young, his teacher's aide who is black; a
sireet-slyle handshake, adding, “What's
_ Up nigger?” oo .

.He is disappointed with the way the
school expelled Cale without giving him
4 Warning or an opportunity to apologize,

“I can see if Cale had repeatedly done
this before, but this is just one little isola-
ted incident,” -Ritchie said. “It was done
in jest.”

He's also upset he had no say in the
way the incident was handled. “[ was

kept completely out of the loop.”

He now fecls helpless since Cale is
left with only correspondence school as
his only educational option.

Ritchie said some groups such as the
Terrace Anti-Racism committee, created
in response to Cale’s incident, are mak-
ing the situation worse by trying to colour

‘the issue and label it bigotry.

“They are using this issue as a cohe-

_Sive force, giving them an issue to bring

themselves alive,” he said. '
Ritchie agrees it’s important to fight

_.facism, but. objects to the group labelling

Cale’s situation as: racist to serve its own
interests,

What the group has done, he said, is
branded his son a racist, —

“My son doesn’l deserve that al all,”
he said. “They’ve tainted the educational
environment for him because he's going
{o have a little cloud over him wherever
he goes,”

He said Cale feels terrible about the
incident and has written a letter of apo-
logy to. Young,

Commitee says racism
IS a big problem here

A COMMITTEE has been formed to hetp
eradicate racism from Terrace schools,

The Terrace Anti-Racism Committee
is made up of parents and others in re-
Sponse 10 what they believe was a racist
incident last month at Skeena Junior Sec-
ondary School.

Committee member Maureen Bostock
said racism is a problem in local schools
and the incident al Skeena involving a
teenage student calling his teacher’s aide
a “nigger,” is a prime example.

“We think schools need to be address-
ing racism proactively,” Bostock said.

That involves educating students and
staff about diversity and preparing for ra-
cist attacks before they accur.

She said the committee was set up so
' facism that is occurring now in the form
of graffiti and verbal abuse, won’t esca-
late to a more dangerous level.

The committee’s poal, she said, is to
convince the school board to give racism
a greater focus in the school curriculum,

Bostock is disappointed because she
feels school district superintendent Shar-
on Beedle and the Skeena principal Rob
Greenwood are playing down the incident
at Skeena. She wants to use it to educate
other students.

“We want to sce racism addressed so
ils not swept under the carpet,” said
Bostock.

Bostock also disapproves of expelling
the 15-year-old boy over the incident, in-
stead of helping him understand his error.

“We don’t want kids warehoused, He
needs to know it’s not cool to say thase

‘ things and that racism is not acceptable.”

The committee’s next mecting is 7
p.m., Nov. 16, at the CUPE office on
Greig,

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