At some point, PARENTS will need to take RESPONSIBILITY for their children and DISCIPLINE them at home!!!!!!

Another thing that I think many people are missing here is that Deshawn was enrolled in a Special Education school…so I posed a question: Should that be cause for exception?

If I recall correctly, Jolita Berry’s attacker was NOT arrested…she DESERVED to be, and race/gender has NOTHING to do with it!

Ms. Friendly
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I don’t expect anyone here to agree with my feelings on the subject of violence towards teachers by students. But that won’t stop me from voicing my opinion when I feel strongly. EVEN IF IT MEANS I USE CAPS every now and again Yobachi. *grin* While you may be right about the assault thing, prove me wrong on the requirements for being a teacher please, or that the child’s behavior was endangering everyone in the room. And please state where my facts on the reported case were wrong, because you imply that nothing I said was factual and therefore should not be taken seriously. It’s one thing to not like what I say (my opinions), another to try to discredit without any proof. But I do like your opinion on the boy’s parents and grandmother, even though it would probably cause the kid (and whatever other kids are in their custody) to go into foster care, which might end up being worse for them than being with grandma.

I’d have to disagree - no way should any child - black or white be charged with a felony at the age of 8.

Nor does it substitute for facts. Like the facts demonstrating Black children are treated tremendously more harshly by the injustice system than whites even when the same crime is committed by perpetrators with similar back grounds: http://www.blackperspective.net/index.php/black-teens-six-times-more-likely-to-be-sentenced-to-jail-than-white-teens/

The injustice system is not the place to deal with this problem. Making an 8 year old out to be the same thing as an adult is ludicrous. You need to examine some facts, and then examine your morals.

Another fact that you disregard is the one where Assault is not automatically a felony as you attempt to perpetrate with your caps typing, as if loud makes you right.

First of all they need to arrest that grandma, his mamma, and his sperm donor for dereliction of parenting, supervising and discipline.

Then they need to take that boy to get some held and stop trying to criminalize Black youth; which is what this is all about.

And what’s his grandma saying anyway, it was cool before because he was only beating up on other kids? Somebody should bruise her.

Forget the excuse of “they just want to lock us up” that’s a load of bull and those who are blaming things on that need their heads examined - They wouldn’t have locked the kid up if the kid didn’t haul off and sock his teacher several times in the face, hit other students and throw chairs all over the place, ENDANGERING every child in the room. ASSAULT IS A FELONY. That’s what the boy did. They wouldn’t have locked the kid up if the parents taught the kid that violence is not good and that he shouldn’t resort to violence. But wait, the quotes were from grandma, not mom or dad, so where is mom and dad? And grandma’s saying that if her little demon grandchild overpowered the teacher (who isn’t allowed to TOUCH the child lest she be charged with a felony) enough to punch her then the teacher shouldn’t be a teacher!???!?? SINCE WHEN WAS “BE ABLE TO TAKE A PUNCH” PART OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR 2ND GRADE TEACHER?!!!?!?! What kind of fool does this boy have for a caretaker? He must have one of those 30 year old grandmothers.

Bottom line: if you screw up the family, you screw up the children. I look at his picture and I see an incredibly angry child and that anger comes from the home. No amount of blaming racism is going to fix bad parenting, which is beyond evident in this case. That boy is a future murderer waiting to happen if someone doesn’t intervene.

I saw the interview with the 7 year old that took the car for a joyride…let’s just say he’ll be in juvie soon…