Thread: Middle School Child ARRESTED for Burping in Class

Saturday, December 3, 2011
Middle School Child ARRESTED for Burping in Class
Activist Post

In another disturbing case of the school-to-prison pipeline, the Associated Press is reporting http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/0 ... 24180.html that a 13-year-old middle school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico was handcuffed and hauled off to juvenile detention for "burping audibly" in class.

According to a lawsuit filed by civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy, only days before this incident, the same student was forced to be strip searched for suspicion of marijuana possession. After five adults inspected the boy in his underwear, nothing was found and he was never charged.

To make matters worse, the parents of the burping bandit were not even notified by the school when he was taken into custody, leaving them to worry for his safety when he didn't return home from school.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident for the Albuquerque school system where in the previous year Kennedy won a settlement against the district when they arrested a girl who "didn't want to sit by the stinky boy in class."

Kennedy reports that "200 school kids have been handcuffed and arrested in the last three years for non-violent misdemeanors," and that she has several cases she is preparing for the mistreatment of students by Albuquerque school officials and law enforcement enablers.

ACLU describes the school-to-prison pipeline as:

a disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse or neglect, and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. 'Zero-tolerance' policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules.

The American Bar Association has condemned these zero-tolerance policies as inherently unjust:

zero tolerance has become a one-size-fits-all solution to all the problems that schools confront. It has redefined students as criminals, with unfortunate consequences …Unfortunately, most current [zero-tolerance] policies eliminate the common sense that comes with discretion and, at great cost to society and to children and families, do little to improve school safety.

This lack of common sense when dealing with children seems to be just another symptom of the growing police state mentality in America. According to many polls, parents and teachers overwhelmingly support zero-tolerance policies for weapons, drugs, and violence in schools, but few studies have been done on non-violent infractions -- like burping in class or requesting not to be seated next to a stinky classmate.

According to the Albuquerque Student Behavior Handbook, "The principal has the responsibility to take discretionary action any time the educational process is threatened with disruption." Apparently, burping is enough of a disruption to warrant an arrest according to school officials.

Ultimately, Kennedy will likely win all of her cases at great cost to the local taxpayers who should be outraged at the behavior of their public school and law enforcement officials.




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9-Yr-Old Student Calls Teacher ‘Cute’ – Gets Suspended For an Alleged ‘Form of Sexual Harassment’
Posted on December 5, 2011 by Conservative Byte

The comments made by a 9-yr-old elementary school student have earned him a two day suspension for “inappropriate behaviorâ€

Lack of common sense is frightening in today's society, public schools are truly a place of stupidity not education, more like a holding center until as young adults they are dumped on the streets.

Young parents if you love your children find other ways to educated them outside the public school system.

Public Schools Charging Kids with Sexual Harassment for Being Kids

The public school systems across America are so screwed up that they haven’t a clue what they’re doing. Students are being taught graphic sex education in elementary schools along with the acceptance of perverse lifestyles such as homosexuality.

But now more and more schools are charging students with sexual harassment and suspending them from school, and I’m not talking about high school students but elementary school students.

A couple of weeks ago it was reported that a 12 year old Florida elementary school girl was charged with sexual harassment after kissing a 12 year old boy she liked on school property. In this case, the school even called in the Florida Department of Children and Families to investigate the harassment charges.

In North Carolina, a 9 year old elementary school boy has been suspended for two days for telling his teacher that she was cute. The school said that it constituted sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. The boy never touched or approached the teacher in any suggestive way, it was just his compliment.

Come on now, what school boy hasn’t had a crush on a cute teacher in his life? And to tell someone that they are cute, regardless of what age they are is not sexual harassment.

In Boston, a seven year old schoolboy got into a fight on a school bus when another boy started choking him. The seven year old fought back to defend himself by hitting the other boy in the groin. Now he is being investigated for sexual harassment by the Boston public school system.

It doesn’t make sense to me when a school system passes out information to students on contraceptions and abortions and then turns around charges students with sexual harassment for being kids, for telling their teacher she’s cute, or kissing a boy you like or defending yourself by hitting your attacker in the groin.

There’s a distinct double standard occurring in the public schools and they haven’t a clue what they’re doing. Public education has become so liberal and misguided that they say one thing and do the opposite. It’s just another sign of how screwed up the public school system in America is.
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North Carolina Principal Forced to Retire After Suspending 9-Year-Old for Calling Teacher 'Cute'

Published December 08, 2011
NewsCore
FOXCharlotte
Emanyea Lockett

GASTONIA, N.C. – The North Carolina school principal who suspended a 9-year-old boy for saying a female teacher was "cute" has been forced to retire over the decision.

Emanyea Lockett was given a three-day suspension from Gaston's Brookside Elementary School after he told another student his teacher was "cute" and a substitute teacher overheard the comment, the Gaston Gazette reported.

School officials investigated the incident and found that Emanyea had done nothing wrong. The school board then gave principal Jerry Bostic one hour to stand down or face termination.

Bostic spoke out after his 44-year career came to an abrupt end Tuesday, saying, "I didn't show a history of making problems like that. I've had the best of evaluations my entire career and because of some syndicated columnist in New York or California, I don't have a job."

Of school superintendent Reeves McGlohon -- who gave him the quit-or-be-fired ultimatum -- Bostic said, "He told me he had made the decision he was going to terminate me or drop me into an assistant principal position.

"I admit I made some errors in what I did, but to fire me or to demote me with 44 years in it, it just doesn't make sense. To me he was a very heartless man, and he did it because of politics."

Emanyea's mother, Chiquita Lockett, said, "This is something that everyone needed to see, just to see what's happening within our school systems."

She was likely to pursue legal action, WSOC-TV reported.

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