Unbelievable story out of Texas

[Rodinia]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/4531988.html

[Tom Sawyer]

Reason 512 why I won't send my child to government school. 

[Recumbent ReCycler]

The teachers and prosecutor definitely went overboard with that case.  When I was a child, pulling the fire alarm would usually get a student suspended and/or they might have to do some kind of community service.  It never resulted in criminal charges.  There seem to be more reasons not to send children to government schools all the time.

[YixilTesiphon]

That's ridiculous. My mother has a friend whose son was being bullied in a middle school locker room day after day. Since administrators, teachers, and coaches are chronically unhelpful (from my own horrendous middle school experience), he clocked one of them with a combination lock. Now, the logical thing to do is to give him ISS for a couple of days, decide the bully has gotten enough punishment, and close the case. Instead, they sent him to an alternative school with kids that can only be described as complete fuckups, and were considering charges. Thank you Texas juvenile justice.

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That's ridiculous. My mother has a friend whose son was being bullied in a middle school locker room day after day. Since administrators, teachers, and coaches are chronically unhelpful (from my own horrendous middle school experience),

One thing I've learned is that government schools do this by design. It's no mistake.

[eques]

When I was in public elementary school (a social and emotional wasteland), I didn't get along with anybody in my class.  I was some sort of pariah, easily provoked to tears and impotent rage.

I ended up transferring to a private Christian school in sixth grade.  It certainly wasn't any better socially (it was worse in some ways, being that it was a Christian school but entirely devoid of Christian love)... it didn't help that I had all this emotional baggage, but I came in as an outsider to a bunch of cliques.  High school was marginally better, because by that time I learned to not care so much about what others thought... to an extent.

I got my school record upon graduation, and I saw a note from one of my second grade teachers to the tune of, "Jimmy doesn't get along with the other children."

Right.  I was the problem.  The few times I tried to stand up for myself or remove myself from the horrid situations I found myself in, I got in trouble.  I once refused to come in from the playground after one particularly nasty day of teasing at lunch, and instead of just letting me be, the teacher carried me into the classroom.  (It's not to say that I was innocent and never in the wrong... but I definitely was the victim far more often than otherwise.)

I wish I could forget these experiences.  Maybe, one day, I'll find a way to integrate them, but for now, they're still pretty painful.

And this was only 20 years ago.  I don't want to think of what the schools are like now, and I decided some time ago that if I did end up having children, they would not be going to a public school... and probably not even a private school.

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Personally, I consider sending children to government school as tantamount to child abuse.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Public school children:  our youngest political prisoners

[powerchuter]

My public schooling experience was very similar to those described...and it was also 25 years ago...  End the government indoctrination prisons immediately!

[LiveFree]

When I was in public elementary school (a social and emotional wasteland), I didn't get along with anybody in my class.  I was some sort of pariah, easily provoked to tears and impotent rage.

I ended up transferring to a private Christian school in sixth grade.  It certainly wasn't any better socially (it was worse in some ways, being that it was a Christian school but entirely devoid of Christian love)... it didn't help that I had all this emotional baggage, but I came in as an outsider to a bunch of cliques.  High school was marginally better, because by that time I learned to not care so much about what others thought... to an extent.

I got my school record upon graduation, and I saw a note from one of my second grade teachers to the tune of, "Jimmy doesn't get along with the other children."

Right.  I was the problem.  The few times I tried to stand up for myself or remove myself from the horrid situations I found myself in, I got in trouble.  I once refused to come in from the playground after one particularly nasty day of teasing at lunch, and instead of just letting me be, the teacher carried me into the classroom.  (It's not to say that I was innocent and never in the wrong... but I definitely was the victim far more often than otherwise.)

I wish I could forget these experiences.  Maybe, one day, I'll find a way to integrate them, but for now, they're still pretty painful.

And this was only 20 years ago.  I don't want to think of what the schools are like now, and I decided some time ago that if I did end up having children, they would not be going to a public school... and probably not even a private school.

That sounds awfully familiar.  Fortunately for me, I've been granted the gift of oblivion and can only recall the general gist of what went on.  And yeah, if you don't fit the mold, it's YOUR fault that the other kids are like jackals.  I remember THAT part well.

WTF is wrong with the administration at these schools?  And that prosecutor sounds like she needs to be Nifonged for ignoring the fact that a teacher pulled the alarm, and not the kid.  Overzealous, vindictive prosecutors like that need to be fired and disbarred.

[Nicholas Gilman]

     Public school IS child abuse via indoctrination.  Its the US version of the Hitler youth.
Next we'll find out the kid who dared him was paid money or favors by the school as an
informers reward.