"Don't Make Me Turn This Plane Around"

109 high school students and their chaperones were kicked off a plane that was to take them to Atlanta for their senior trip. Reading that statement one may think, yeah they were probably being little assholes like high school students usually are, they probably deserved to be kicked off. Well, the flight crew along with the pilot and other witnesses claim they were being little assholes. Okay, so hey didn't necessarily use that term, but they said they were loud and disrespectful and didn't listen to instructions. So, they flight crew did what was necessary and kicked them off. What's the big deal?

The thing that is making this story national news is the fact that the students were from an Orthodox Jewish high school. So now it becomes a question of prejudice. Were they really kicked off because they weren't following directions, or is it because they were an identifiable religious group? The students claim it's because they are Jewish, while witnesses are saying there wasn't a single racial slur said throughout the whole ordeal.

One student said,

"They treated us like we were terrorists; I've never seen anything like it. I'm not someone to make these kinds of statements," Zehavi said. "I think if it was a group of non-religious kids, the air stewardess wouldn't have dared to kick them off."

A passenger that was seated in business class said about this being an issue of prejudice,

  "Absolutely not," he said. "There was not one ethnic slur from anyone on the flight crew or anyone who was inconvenienced for two hours.

So, now the school has opened an investigation to get to the bottom of this. Southwest Airlines hasn't released any statements. Students did say that they were quick to accommodate them and find them other flights to get them to their intended destination. Is that their way of covering their asses and thinking this wouldn't blow up to big a big national story headlined on CNN? Well, if that's what they thought they were definitely wrong.