The Unpleasantness in Nucktown by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

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Port Arthur, Texas. Parents are raising concerns and calling for change and transparency after a video showed students from a Vidor high school repeatedly using an undisclosed ethnic slur.

Vidor Vidorian was unable to determine what it was, as the video has been taken down, and no one wants to say the word for fear of reprisals.

“It sumthin they be say. An den nex week be in Class A gud grace.” – Parent.

Students, parents and Vidor Independent School District administrators met on Monday to have an open dialogue about the now deleted, alleged, formerly viral video. The meeting was held to discuss what could be done to heal the wounds.

“Disappoint be a mile word ta descrapp how weez be felt when weez seen it,” a Vidor parent said.

About fifteen parents gathered at the Vidor Administrative Building to discuss the disappointment they felt after seeing the video. Parents want to make sure an incident such as this does not happen again.

"Weez has to do something. We can't just talk about it,” a Vidor parent said.

Parents are saying this issue goes past political correctness.

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“Iffen yu beez thinkin dat is political yu beez miss da boat.

Dis beez a moral issue,” a well-spoken attendee said.

Superintendent Jay Killgo and Vidor High School Principal James McDowell invited parents to come to the table to talk about what should be done.

Furahah and Afolim Abdel-Nabi have children who attend one of the Vidor high schools. Furahah Abdel-Nabi said she e-mailed Killgo immediately after seeing the video.

“Ah wants dem ta beez able ta look at they stoonts an adres da seeryuss ishoo. Dat dis beez not jus dis video, but da reglah use of inpropreeat words in da hallways toward fren,” Furahah Abdel-Nabi said.

Killgo said the students involved will be suspended, and "won't be seen on campus for quite a long time." A disciplinary hearing is set to take place.

Parents said they want more transparency about the students'

consequences.

“It be send a message to da stoonts,” another alleged parent said. “It be send a message ta us dat it be take seryuss. Dis ain’t sumthin dey can say an den nex week beez back in class.”

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A number of different solutions were brought up throughout the meeting. One parent suggested changing the language in the student code of conduct.

“Ah dues be thinkin dat when da peeples be pullin it up ta see, iffen dey be seen ethnic slurs an hate speeches or sumding special list in dere, witchen it be not, ah beez dink weez can at lease refer dems ta say it be in dere. It be a big deal. It be a seryuss punishmen," another alleged Vidor parent wearing a sex offender’s bracelet added.

School officials and parents agreed things will not change overnight, but Monday's conversation was a start.

“Ahs rilly preciate y'alls fo havin dis converse," a parent said. "Ahs knows dis had be very dis comftible, but it be worth it."

The biggest thing parents and school officials want to work on is awareness.

Distributed by The Vidor True Content Agency, LLC.

Base on de Canadian accents and colloquialisms quoted, it beez obvious to yeztruly dat de words said was Nuck, Nuck, Nuck.

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