CPS reviewing Whitney Young deans disturbing comments on Trayvon Martin

[lunasun]

WY is one of the most sought after High schools in the city ...
.. also subject of the movie SelectEd
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4518378/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/cps-reviewing-whitney-young-deans-disturbing-comments-on-trayvon-martin/
“The employee conduct in these videos is disturbing and in no way represents the supportive school environments that educators have created throughout the district,” Passman said.

In another video, a student says it’s disrespectful for non-black people to use the N-word, just as it would be disrespectful for non-queer people to use the word “queer.”
Fanning replies, “So you can use the term paddywagon?” referring to a derogatory term for Irish people. The student replies they have never used the word, and Fanning balks, saying repeatedly, “You’ve never used that term? Never?”

Fanning comments in the video that words either are derogatory or they aren’t, regardless of who’s using them.
“This is how our administration addresses situations of discrimination that we bring to them,” one video caption reads. “They try to turn it around on us and act like it is not a big deal. This is why racists get so far in the world and get to decide our fates as justices, police officers, and presidents.”

Fanning has also taught English and history at Whitney Young since 1999, and he previously coached the school’s swimming and water polo teams, according to a faculty biography. He did not respond to messages seeking comment.

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1. paddywagon

I'm 71 and the only person I ever heard use that term in my whole life was my dad,
who was born in 1902.

I never heard anyone of my generation or more recent generations use it.

[lunasun]

2. Besides his justifications for Zimmerman, l thought the end of the article with the "I know you say

paddy wagon"insistence story let one know he wasnt only a standard racist dean, but also nutty, and not in a good way.

All of this seems really shocking that it occurred at one of the most culturally and economically diverse highly select public schools in the country.