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I'm not saying the Moslem child was a whiner--I don't think he was----just that his reaction--probably advocated by his parents--was not helpful--to himself. The report (not Fox) quoted him as saying how much better things were before the incident--that all he wanted to do was "fit in"--and up to then he thought he did. If you want to fit in, you don't want to call attention to yourself--and that's what protesting the sandwich did--in spades, thanks to the stupid overreaction of the superintendent.

Obviously the kid who put the sandwich on the table was a young lout--no argument there---who just wanted to get a rise out of the" foreigner". Unfortunately, he got one.

A much better idea, as I said earlier--and what a Jewish child would likely have done--is to push the sandwich down to the end of the table, or throw it out. Without a word. And then go back to talking with your friends.

And drop the subject.

A sandwich may be sometimes "more than a sandwich"--but it doesn't have to be if you don't overreact.