Claims of racist harassment at Dorothy Peacock Elementary in Langley, British Columbia, have ignited controversy and prompted calls for swift action from the school district and parents. Niven McGregor, father of a 12-year-old student, alleges that his daughter and other students of colour have been subjected to racial slurs and bullying, including the use of the 'N' word. While the school district acknowledges the investigation, McGregor feels their response has been inadequate and insufficiently punitive.
Claims of racist harassment at a Langley school are being investigated, the school district said, but the father of one student feels enough isn't being done. Willoughby resident Niven McGregor, whose 12-year-old daughter Amy attends Dorothy Peacock Elementary , said other students have been bullying his child, and other students of colour, with racist comments, including the use of the 'N' word.
\When Amy McGregor first told her father about the harassment last year, she had been at Dorothy Peacock for about three years without incident. 'We've never had issues,' McGregor told the Langley Advance Times. McGregor said he was 'very angry' and 'disgusted,' but counselled his daughter to wait and see, telling her 'you know what, maybe it's a one-off incident.' 'There was a part of me that was like, okay, don't blow it out of proportion,' McGregor told the Langley Advance Times. 'I've also faced racial prejudice in the workplace, even in Canada and in South Africa,' McGregor explained. 'But I was hoping that at least in a school environment, my kids would be in a safe space, because that's where people get educated. I wasn't expecting it to happen at middle school level. I was thinking I'm protecting from racism, and lo and behold, it's happening.' \McGregor said the problem has worsened, with more children involved and more incidents, the most recent on Monday, Jan. 6. There have been 'jokes of a racial nature' directed at the physical attributes and features of not only the kids in his daughter's circle, but other minority peer groups too, he said, 'like Asian and Indian for example.' On Monday, Jan. 13, McGregor and a number of supporters picketed the school to protest what they viewed as a lack of appropriate action, the day after he met with the principal and school district managers. 'I said to them, you guys are moving too slow,' McGregor recalled. 'You should have a zero tolerance approach. Yes, you have admin procedures to deal with your investigation when there is an issue. But at minimum, you should have sent some correspondence out to the parents, you should have had meetings and made it very clear that this is not on, this shouldn't continue.' 'It's not being dealt with seriously,' McGregor commented. Since the meeting and the protest, he said other parents have come forward to report similar harassment of their children at the school.
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