9-Year-Old Boy Blurts Out The Word Brownie, School Calls Cops To Have Him Taken Away

Many people feel that America has become too sensitive and worried about being politically correct. And now one elementary school in New Jersey has just proven this to be true when police were called after a 9-year-old student said the word “brownies” while talking about snacks, the child’s mother alleges.

Apparently, another student was offended by the word when they misinterpreted the comment in a racist way. When that student told the teacher, the teacher felt forced to call the police, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

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Has America’s school system really come to this?

After learning that her boy had the cops called on him, his mother asked him what happened.

“He said they were talking about brownies,” Stacy dos Santos, the child’s mother, said. “Who exactly did he offend?”

Because the incident was so ridiculous and mishandled, Dos Santos was forced to think twice about sending her son back to the same school this fall.

“I’m not comfortable with the administration; I don’t trust them, and neither does my child,” she said. “He was intimidated, obviously. There was a police officer with a gun in the holster talking to my son, saying, ‘Tell me what you said.’ He didn’t have anybody on his side.”

Dos Santos wants an apology from the school.

Police officers took the complaint seriously. They talked to the children’s parents and reported the racist incident to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency.

During a meeting with school officials, Collingswood Police Chief Kevin Carey stated he wants schools to notify them and report incidents to police including problems “as minor as a simple name-calling incident that the school would typically handle internally.”

Because more and more kids are committing suicide as a result of bullying and cyberbullying, police are taking these acts seriously. And they advise the schools to report the cases to the New Jersey DCPP.

This policy is new as the old one only required New Jersey schools to report incidents to police if deemed serious enough. Those cases usually involved drugs, assault, weapons, or sexual violence.

Since the new policy went into effect, New Jersey police are called to school more than 5 times every day.

“Some of it is just typical little-kid behavior,” teacher Megan Irwin said. “Never before in my years of teaching have I felt uncomfortable handling a situation or felt like I didn’t know how to handle a situation.”

The mayor, police, and Camden County Prosecutor’s Office arrange a meeting to hammer out the details.

“In our discussion today, you and your staff made it abundantly clear that our recent meeting was to reinforce the applicability of the Memorandum of Agreement, but not to expand its terms,” Collingswood Mayor Jim Maley wrote in a letter to the prosecutor’s office, the Collingswood Patch reported.

“I don’t want this to happen to another child,” dos Santos said.

Do you think armed officers should show up at school for every minor infraction?

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9-Year-Old Boy Blurts Out The Word Brownie, School Calls Cops To Have Him Taken Away