a kid in my school

[ulysses]

(16 year old 8th grader from the EBD transition class next door to mine) got carted away in handcuffs this morning for stealing a car.

I'm guessing he missed a few hugs somewhere along the line. If people had only half the concern for the kids growing up in the hood that they have for 5-year-olds gone "Lord of the Flies", we'd be better off as a nation than we are.

[Sandpiper]

1. It was probably because he didn't get spanked enough

Hitting 'em in the high chair saves 'em from the electric chair!


Just ask James Dobson.

[mzmolly]

3. That's right that kid must have lacked "The Rod of Correction" before

the essential age of one. :eyes:

[ulysses]

6. the irony, of course,

is that a lot of our kids have come up getting the shit beaten out of them from a variety of sources.

[mzmolly]

8. I know that statistics show that MOST prison inmates were in fact

"abused" not spared the rod so to speak.

I also grew up in "the hood" and know what many kids face today. It's very sad indeed.

[skylarmae]

2. great point.

16 and in the 8th grade is very concerning too.....aren't most 8th graders 13/14 yrs old???

[ulysses]

4. yes.

A lot of our kids have been retained once or twice before they're referred to special ed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I'm sitting here wondering which is sadder

a 16 year old in the 8th grade or an 8th grader arrested at school.

And hey we DO try to hug them in elementary school. Sometimes by the time they come to us at age 5 it's almost too late to help them.

[ulysses]

7. oh, I know.

These kids have one foot out the school door before they even approach it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I just heard today

that a kid I taught in 4th and 5th grade had finally dropped out as an 8th grader. When he came to me, he didn't even know his alphabet. He left me as a reader. I remember feeling he was a success story. Dumb me.

[LWolf]

10. The definitive response

to the uproar over the 5-year-old:

If people had only half the concern for the kids growing up in the hood that they have for 5-year-olds gone "Lord of the Flies", we'd be better off as a nation than we are.

It's interesting to see the same scenario played out, small scale and large, in any issue you care to examine these days.

If people only had half the concern and passion for the people in our nation growing up in a culture of poverty, neglect, and abuse as they do for bullying the rest of the world in the name of democracy, we'd be better off as a nation than we are.

[Goblinmonger]

11. I don't think you are paying attention

We are in a culture of LIFE, not a culture of poverty, neglect, and abuse. Geez, didn't you get the memo :sarcasm:

[jmm]

12. The smaller something is the more people care about it

which is why so many people want a puppy but not a dog and fundies care more about fetuses than people.