*New York City public school students as young as 8 are making jokes about disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in class, prompting many parents to call for schools to ban his name.
According to the New York Post, a concerned mother named Vanessa Mejia said her 8-year-old daughter told her that one of her classmates at PS 11 in Chelsea yelled, “Welcome to my Diddy party!” in class one day this week.
“I was just extremely shocked by it, because these kids are so young,” Mejia told The Post about the third-graders.
“And then my second thought was, who knows how much information this boy had on the whole [Diddy] situation? Because if he is well-informed, did he really mean to say that? Or was it that he didn’t know what it meant?” she added.
Combs could be sentenced to up to life in prison if he is ultimately convicted on federal charges, including racketeering, sex trafficking, and transporting individuals for prostitution. Since his arrest in September, he has been held at Brooklyn’s MDC jail and denied bail twice due to being considered a flight risk.
Mejia said her daughter has heard the name Diddy but not the details of his alleged sex crimes.
“It’s not kid-friendly information,” Mejia said. “So if that little boy knows more information about [Diddy] than he should, who knows what is going to be told to all the other kids?”
She continued, “it would be a good idea” to ban kids from uttering Combs’ name in the classroom.
“It’s terrible. . . . kids are making fun of a situation that has harmed a lot of people. I don’t think that has a place here and it should be addressed,” said Jose Luis Guerra, whose son and daughter go to the same school. Another parent named Jess said, “Certain things like that, these kids don’t need to know.”
Meija raised the issue in a Facebook post and one woman commented, “This is something that is becoming a regular saying among middle school kids. It’s driving me nuts. My son’s teacher said all the kids are saying it. . . . They think [it’s] hilarious. So everything is ‘Diddy this’ and ‘Diddy party that,’” she wrote, per The Post.
One educator at a Brooklyn charter school added: “I told my students if they said it I’m calling home and they have to explain what it means to their parents. Now I rarely hear it.”
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