But Everyone Knows White People Can’t Jump . . .
Posted: May 2nd, 2008 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The ChinDisturbing, gang-like graffiti is cropping up all over a Brooklyn elementary school, marring a playground, classrooms and two teachers’ cars, authorities said.
The troubling words “Jump White People” and abbreviation “JWP” have appeared at Public School 224 in East New York about a dozen times in the past three weeks, and some teachers are concerned that it’s not being taken seriously.
“It just quietly gets erased,” one teacher said. “Nothing gets done.”
The words were also scrawled in marker on a Snapple machine, desks and several walls, prompting four students ranging in age from 8 to 11 to be disciplined, cops said.
But the graffiti has continued to surface since the in-school suspensions. As recently as Wednesday, a staff member found JWP in a closet, a source said.
And teachers worry that the markings are not just a prank, but instead show that the kids are mimicking gang culture at a young age.