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Jon R. Effner May 17, 2021
Sara Ford’s recent Commentary (Cape Gazette, May 11-13) on behalf of the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice was interesting.
It cannot have been an editorial coincidence that the bulk of that commentary appeared beneath a picture titled “Baseball Game at Milton Colored School in 1952.”
I am a 2015 retiree and transferee from southern New Jersey. When I moved here, I was surprised to learn how recent overt racial segregation and its influence on everyday life was (and for some, still is) in southern Delaware. The picture as well as the attitudes of some that caused Ms. Ford to write her Commentary are reminders to me of that surprise.
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Submitting. Some pupils have multiple difficulties, sensory impairments, emotional, social, communication and behavioural difficulties. All pupils have an Educational, Health Care Plan. The school and police are working together and the police are continuing to investigate the incident with both families. Can we give reassurance that incidents like this in school are rare, and the safety and wellbeing of our pupils are paramount.”
Leo’s mum Linzi Bates, 38, of Wath-upon-Dearne, said: “My son got assaulted and he ended up in hospital with his injuries.
“He’s been bullied now for a few months and this time he’s been hit in the face, banged his head on the ground and he was left unconscious.