After the middle school student harassed the Asian child on video, schools Head message about Hass – NBC4 Washington

After a student of the middle school campaigned for ethnic pollution when he bothered a 5-year-old Asian boy in Loudoun County, Virginia, the headmaster informed a message about the fight against hate.

A video begins with a slur and shows the frightened child home and asks: “No! Don't! Unlike me!”

The little boy screamed for other children to help him: “Do not do it! Save me! Save me!” Nobody entered and laughing in the background.

The harassment continued.

“Do you have dumplings for dinner?” Asked the middle school student.

After two minutes, the 5-year-old's mother opened the door and her son ran into it.

In an interview with News4, his parents said the video broke the heart. Her son asked why the middle school students called him King Kong.

“Should I continue to lie and say: 'Yes. You call you King Kong because you are strong,” said the child's father, his voice began to break. “Or should I try to explain to him what this word and why they tell you? It is difficult.”

Although the confrontation took place on a weekend in front of the school premises, superintendent Aaron Spence sent an explanation to the entire school community.

“Let me be clear: hate speeches and racial losses have no place in our schools or in our community,” said his message.

“In a wonderfully diverse county like Loudoun, it is not just our responsibility, it is our moral obligation to honor the dignity and humanity of everyone,” wrote Spence. “We have to teach our children not to see their classmates and their neighbors as” others “, but as fellow human beings who earn sympathy and respect.”

On social media, people from Loudoun County and also disciplinary measures called for disciplinary measures. The headmaster replied and sent a message that repeated Spences words.

“Due to the guideline and data protection laws, we cannot provide any details about individual student records or disciplinary measures. Please make sure that we treat this matter with the seriousness that you deserve,” says an explanation.

According to Spence, the equity team of the middle school develops a campaign to ensure that pupils and employees are reminded of the expectations of non-discrimination, and to help the students to end how they can end racial nuisance at school and in the community. The school district also offered the 5-year-old.

Donations of over 45,000 US dollars, a wave of the support and a darker reaction

Support for the child and his family was aimed at social media.

“I'm sorry that you have to go through this heartbreaking incident. It is surprising that we will happen to our children today,” said one person.

“People do not recognize that such a moment can shape a person's lives,” said another.

A 13-year-old boy said: “I'm so sorry that this happened to her family. I also live in Ashburn and hope that this will never happen to her son because he deserves it better.”

There was also a darker reaction to what happened: threats were threatened in the school district and in the middle school, which the older boy attended. School officials say they have received angry e -mails, with some of them bearing the same language.

After an online donation campaign generated more than $ 45,000 for the 5-year-old family, they hired lawyers to help them control their next steps. A lawyer passed on a message from the family.

“They want to express their profound gratitude for the support of the community,” it said. “It was really helpful.”

News4 has planned an interview in front of the camera with Spence for Thursday. When the school district learned that the parents of the little young lawyer hired, the legal advisor of the school district advised against the interview and was canceled.

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