We have yet another child criminally charged for something that at one time would have been treated as a mere conduct issue warranting a note to a parent. In Pikesville, Maryland, a 13-year-old will be charged with second-degree assault for kissing a 14-year-old girl on a dare. This absurd case began with school officials calling police who pursued the minor on criminal assault charges.
The child is now facing a second-degree assault charge as a juvenile.
There is no question that this warrants discipline but a criminal charge?
What do you think?
LC in Tex. – Read my post above. This guy went on to write that boys need to rough house and such and that women teachers are trying to, inadvertently socially engineer them to be girls. Because boys do not act like girls, the must be suffering from some sort of psychological disorder.
Having a daughter and son gave me an insight into the sexes I wish that I could have been taught at a much earlier age. Like just prior to puberty and especially before marriage. lol
A friend of mine, suggests the only way in which to stop the out of control population expansion by single moms and dead beat dads is to make every male make a couple of deposits at the local sperm bank and then go strait to the doctor for a vasectomy. I couldn’t stop laughing when he suggested this. Interestingly enough he is a biologist with a vasectomy and no children.
This is how we are being indoctrinated, the learning process has been thrown out the window along with common sense. Children used to learn from their parents and family members, now they let others take over their duty. The child that is being to loud or running around to release pent up energy is given a Prozac instead of being corrected and told why they are being corrected. Too many schools are involving themselves with student life instead of teaching the basics. The School Board needs parental supervision in every community. Find out what your children are being taught!
I just read an article titled something to the effect “The Wussification of American Boys”. He was pointing out the females now dominant primary education both as to the number of teachers, but administrators as well. Could it be that 75% of all teachers today in many school districts are females in primary education as he wrote in his article? It probably is in elementary schools.
He suggested that women should not be allows to teach boys period, by segregation if necessary.
Where is affirmative action when we really need it? Have feminazis taken over primary ed?
Agreeing here with SWM. There does need to be some sort of discipline and his parents should be included as well to make sure that they also are not fluffing it off and will reinforce the discipline action. He needs to be made to understand that what he did was wrong and that these types of actions can get him into a great deal of trouble.
Even so, unless this is a pattern of behaviour……..it doesn’t rise to the level of second degree assault. Assault yes.Rude. Crude and unwanted by the girl. But let’s have some sort of perspective.
SWM, yep an opened mouth kiss with tongue action is definitely agressive. A peck on the cheek is another story altogether.
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/19875198-story Grabbing someone and planting an open mouthed kiss on them does merit some form of discipline. It was no peck on the cheek.
He needs a trial by jury. No jury would convict him. Some lawyer in private practice who does criminal defense needs to step forward and do this for free.
BitchinDog – First, the parents need to file suit against the school district. That will go to a jury. 2nd degree assault might not get him a jury trial. Depends on the state.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/16/440890750/obama-invites-texas-teen-to-white-house-after-bomb-hoax-incident Good for Obama…. Annie, Irving, Texas is ground zero as far as Islamophobia is concerned.
It is getting so when the cops are called to school they feel required to arrest somebody. To me, they should not have been an arrest in either case.
Nick,
Doesn’t envy thrive in the absence of humility? Our “ME” culture breeds envy and the class warfare waged by the progressive movement.
That poor kid, Islamaphobics run amok.
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/arrest-14-year-old-student-making-clock-fruits-15-years-fear-mongering-anti-muslim-animus/
Of course no mention of the case written about in the article linked to above… Academics are such a queer group… it’s quite amazing what’s considered “principled” to y’all.
Common sense, in short supply.
Schools are under a tremendous amount of pressure to keep their students safe and free from harm while those kids are under their watch. The overreaction to a seemingly minor juvenile incident is not unexpected, given a climate where the failure to report such incidences to the authorities could result in serious consequences for the school and/or school district. It would be interesting to know whether or not the girl’s parents are supportive of the prosecutor pursuing assault charges. Are they pressing for this to move forward?
On the positive side, I am heartened to see liberal commenters acknowledging that it is the schools that are the problem in this case. And, these liberal commenters acknowledging that charter schools are the way out of the education industry monopoly on education makes my day. Yes, we do have overzealous prosecutors and cops. But, this never should have gotten to that point.
Envy creates hate. It is maybe the most pernicious and insidious of the Seven Deadly Sins. I long thought greed was the most destructive. But, as I have gotten to have a deeper and deeper understanding of people, I have come to see it is envy that creates so much resentment. We’re seeing it play out here, and it is interesting to observe.
Thanks for beating me to the punch, Ken Rogers.
Here’s the conclusion. I would encourage others to read the entire posting.
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/public_school_students_are_the_new_inmates_in_the_american_police_state
“I’ll conclude with one hopeful anecdote about a Philadelphia school dubbed the “Jones Jail” because of its bad reputation for violence among the student body. Situated in a desperately poor and dangerous part of the city, the John Paul Jones Middle School’s student body had grown up among drug users, drug peddlers, prostitutes and gun violence. “By middle school,” reports The Atlantic, most of these students “have witnessed more violence than most Americans who didn’t serve in a war ever will.”
According to investigative reporters Jeff Deeney, “School police officers patrolled the building at John Paul Jones, and children were routinely submitted to scans with metal detecting wands. All the windows were covered in metal grating and one room that held computers even had thick iron prison bars on its exterior… Every day… [police] would set up a perimeter of police officers on the blocks around the school, and those police were there to protect neighbors from the children, not to protect the children from the neighborhood.”
In other words, John Paul Jones, one of the city’s most dangerous schools, was a perfect example of the school-to-prison, police state apparatus at work among the nation’s youngest and most impressionable citizens.
When management of John Paul Jones was taken over by a charter school that opted to de-escalate the police state presence, stripping away the metal detectors and barred windows, local police protested. In fact, they showed up wearing Kevlar vests. Nevertheless, school officials remained determined to do away with institutional control and surveillance, as well as aggressive security guards, and focus on noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution with an emphasis on student empowerment, relationship building and anger management.
The result: a 90% drop in serious incidents—drug sales, weapons, assaults, rapes—in one year alone. As one fifth-grader remarked on the changes, “There are no more fights. There are no more police. That’s better for the community.”
The lesson for the rest of us is this: you not only get what you pay for, but you reap what you sow.
If you want a nation of criminals, treat the citizenry like criminals.
If you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners, run the schools like prisons.
But if you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters, who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, then run the schools like freedom forums. Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation’s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state.”
-John Whitehead on September 14, 2015
The following editorial cites many more such examples of repression in US public schools, as well as noting the significance for their citizenship of systematically intimidating students:
Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
By John Whitehead – September 16, 2015
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become fixated on crime, security and violence.”—Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes
“In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
“Indeed, at a time when we are all viewed as suspects, there are so many ways in which a person can be branded a criminal for violating any number of laws, regulations or policies. Even if you haven’t knowingly violated any laws, there is still a myriad of ways in which you can run afoul of the police state and end up on the wrong side of a jail cell.
“Unfortunately, when you’re a child in the American police state, life is that much worse.
“Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools contain almost every aspect of the militarized, intolerant, senseless, overcriminalized, legalistic, surveillance-riddled, totalitarian landscape that plagues those of us on the ‘outside.’ ”
– See more at: http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36534/John-Whitehead-Public-School-Students-Are-the-New-Inmates-in-the-American-Police-State/?uuid=6F8011E2-5056-9627-3C24687C562F0BF6#sthash.UZ265mrt.dpuf
American Police State:
This argument reveals no concept whatsoever of what it means to live in Police State.
I have never read anything more crazy than this posting on your blog.
It is an insult to those victims who have suffered at the hands of Real Despots in the Real World.
America is not the greatest country in the world, just the biggest economy. That’s it. All the other stuff is “sales puffery.”
The United States, one day, will become disunited. And life will proceed.
China is now the world’s largest economy?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30483762
Darren is correct. The problem started w/ the nanny school people. They are as asinine as people, who don’t even understand this country, predicting its demise. The successful people who attend high school or college reunions are always sniped @ by the less than successful. The appropriate Seven Deadly Sin is envy.