Brave Teen Refuses to Attend Middle School, Chooses Jail Instead

[Blue_Tires]

Middle school is a nightmare, and any impulse to avoid it is totally understandable. A Florida teenager who had the courage to fight back, however, was rewarded for his bravery this week with a pair of handcuffs and a trip to the St. Johns County jail.

According to an arrest report obtained by The Smoking Gun, the 14-year-old boy, whose name was redacted, repeatedly refused to go to school after moving from New York to Florida, resisting even after his mother took away his cell phone and laptop and disconnected their home's internet. This week—two weeks after the district's August 18 start date—the mother called the police, who reported to the house and told the teen he could either go to school or go to jail. His stoic reply, delivered from bed: "Do what you gotta do. I'm not going to school."

The martyr for teens everywhere was arrested for misdemeanor resisting without violence/obstruction of justice, cuffed, and taken in, before eventually being released into his mother's custody. Is this how America treats its heroes?

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Failure all around...

[yeoman6987]

1. How is this good?

A hero? Many teens don't like school and would rather not go. I HAVE to be missing something.

[Brickbat]

7. It's Gawker. That's its tone.

[yeoman6987]

9. Thanks!

[SummerSnow]

2. How is this a crime of obstruction of justice??

if he repeatedly missed school he will be truant .

[Kalidurga]

3. I would have chosen jail if given the option.

But, no matter how many times I skipped no one called the cops on me. I missed close to 80 days one year, that is I attended school about every other day. But, it was more like I would go a week and take a week off. I still managed to pass all of my classes, but I did almost get a D in history luckily I got an A on the final bringing my grade up to a C.

[Blue_Tires]

12. 80 days?

That's more than I skipped/faked sickness in grades 1-12 combined...

Hell, I don't know the exact number, but it used to be that 25-35 documented absences would automatically trigger a repeat year where I grew up...

[Kalidurga]

13. Yep I had no idea until my counsolor told me how many

I still have no idea how I got away with that. I am even more astonished I passed any of my classes let alone all of them.

[KurtNYC]

4. I've never understood how "resisting arrest" can be the first and ONLY charge ?!

Seems like one should be being arrested for SOMETHING before "resisting arrest" can be charged.

And the kid is definitely from New York: "Do what you gotta do"

[Jenoch]

5. Teenagers don't always get what they want.

[AverageJoe90]

6. Gotta wonder if there might be something deeper to all this.

It's possible there may not be, but more likely than not......there could be something.

[AngryAmish]

8. The deeper meaning is this kid is a hero

School sux.

[Earth_First]

10. Perhaps this kid is being bullied in his new environment...

The article is short on details.

Perhaps this child is having a tough time adjusting to his new surroundings and the support mechanism to transition isn't adequate or is severely lacking...

I sympathize with this young man as he struggles through a very difficult period for any adolescent in his/her situation.

[FLPanhandle]

11. I don't want to go to work either, but I wouldn't consider myself brave to refuse to go.

I don't see a bright future for this young man.