He does, actually. Watch any of the hearings he sits on and you’ll see him being a blustering bag of shit at anyone who has to be there, regardless of age. I think it might be the only thing he knows how to do, apart from threatening librarians and trying to take loaded guns onto an airplane.
My issue is not so much that she was taken to juvie. That’s a solid lesson in not make false crimes with really no impact at this age. My issue is that she’s still there. Where are the parents? Why can’t she be released. A little scare is one thing, but I don’t think an 11 year old should really be held all the way until trial for a misdemeanor that was dumb and not malicious.
I agree with your overall points but wanted to call out that she got hit with a felony and a misdemeanor.
I don’t really know the ins-and-outs of the legal system, but I really hope that felony charge gets reduced or, at a minimum, doesn’t follow her around into adulthood. Would be a shame for her record to be marred like that long-term for a misguided prank pulled when she was 11.
Your issue is that she's still there? The article implies that this only happened yesterday, so she's only been there for 1 day. That's not unreasonable for a felony.
One day could be more than enough to traumatize a kid. She’s 11 and she played a very stupid prank likely because she didn’t understand the consequences due to being 11 years old. She doesn’t need to be put with 16-year-old violent offenders. Not even for a day.
My daughter is a very well-behaved kid, but she also has terrible anxiety. If, by some similar incident that she didn’t realize was so serious, she ended up in juvie for a day, she would end up with PTSD.
I understand what you're saying completely. I'm not even saying that I disagree with you - to be honest, I'm not quite sure what to think about this circumstance.
However, I will say that there are limits to being lax on someone just because they are a child. This was a serious offense that could have cost multiple people their lives and a serious response is justifiably warranted.
Yeah. She’s 11 and didn’t commit a violent crime. I expect she would be taken into custody, paperwork filed and then released into her parent’s care. That’s normally how it works for non-violent offenses especially for first time offenders.
If we were talking about shoplifting, sure. This case is more serious, however, and I'm not sure the same approach would be taken under the circumstances.
I see some value in it. Don't keep her overnight or cause permanent damage to her life, but these kids are for sure a little out of control and unparented.
Eh, I doubt it's because she's "out of control and unparented". According to the article she was at home with her parents when she decided to copy a prank she saw in a youtube video. The whole incident played out in under 90 minutes, even the best parent can't (and shouldn't) watch their kid 100% of the time. Kids have poor impulse control and do dumb shit. Give her a stern talking to and a slap on the wrist, and call it a day.
Funny that he was "extremely concerned" when a report came out last month on how Instagram algorithms were promoting child exploitation, yet he completely gutted the Child Safety team at Twitter and then went out of his way to let everyone know that he was personally behind the decision to reinstate some conspiracy theory nutjob who's posting this garbage on his site.
I think they probably meant in the larger community and in this one. Access to educational materials and services would go a long way in making it harder for things like this to happen. A big problem in America, especially conservative majority areas, is that lack of resources, information, and education makes it easier for political and economic interests to overshadow people’s well being. Look at the push for ‘right-to-work’, brexit, West Virginia and Kentucky in general. There are a lot of people who have restricted access to information and learning who make their decisions based on Fox news, Facebook, and worse.
Basically this. Knowledge is power. People who feel empowered tend to be in better control of their life trajectory and have a better chance to elevate their happiness. Happiness helps avoid the depression spiral that seems to have gripped so many people.
Removing access to free eduction resources and replacing it with a soft-juvi-rehab will only hurt people in the long run.
“You’re not doing well in school? Failing some classes and need more help? How about we try suspension for 2 weeks to fix that?”
and the dumbing down of american children continues.
adult humans voted for this. adult humans chose this path. it boggles the mind the depth of either their lack of empathy and or awareness of our duties in this society.
HISD was taken over by the Texas Education Agency, and the TEA commissioner appointed the superintendent and board. Trust me, the people who live in HISD don’t want this shit.
You also need someone who isn’t with you to know where you are and arrange check-ins of some sort, or at least give them a time frame of when they can expect to hear from you again if all is well.
He was appointed by the state after HISD (Texas’s largest school district with 276 schools) had A SINGLE SCHOOL (Phillis Wheatley AKA not even 1% of the whole district) received a poor grade from the state education board for 5 consecutive years or more. The state removed elected school board members and the super indendant to have them replaced by the state government.
Lmfao just put the kids right into prison after graduation too why don’t you, but wait, even prisons have libraries. They really out did themselves this time.
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