Reply #62: Gotta say fairly typical stuff I saw growing up in school, too.

[txaslftist]

Bullies are an ugly reality of growing up; usually they grow up (and out of bullying) too.

Do we really need to be saddling 10 year olds with felony records? I mean, granted, with that attitude they'll probably be republicans so it's good they can't vote, but they might actually grow up to be decent people.

Malcolm X was little better than a thug hoodlum until he found God in prison, then became a major leader and reformer.

Hell, ten-year-olds don't even know what sex is (at least I didn't). Hard to believe we're willing to treat them as if they are adults in the criminal justice system.

Okay, philosophical stuff aside, what happens to these malicious young pencillers later? They get labelled as felons at the ripe age of 10, they'll be under juvenile supervision until they turn 18, and probably spend some time in juvie. In juvie they'll learn very quickly what it means to really be tough (or they'll learn very quickly what it means to be victims).

And now you've taken two kids with a fairly normal shot at growing up into fairly normal people and you've created two hardened felons. Which you can then use to justify your original classification of them as hardened felons.

These two idiots need a box on the ear, a few days cleaning up the schoolyard and to write: "I will not be mean to other kids" a few hundred times on the blackboard. Anything else is both unjust and counterproductive.