Name Calling Is Unacceptable

If you were like me your mother probably taught you the phrase, "Sticks and bones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."  Although I know my mother was well meaning this phrase is not true.  Names do hurt.  In an inviting school setting calling others names is unacceptable. 

Incidentby Countée Cullen
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.