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TheOther

2011-12-22 04:41:58 PM

That's a pretty strict attendance policy.

Marcus Aurelius

2011-12-22 05:10:04 PM

Does the school get a bounty for every kid they incarcerate? Because that would explain a lot.

Pastor of Muppets

2011-12-22 05:15:09 PM

What in these people's minds makes it ok to jail a person over a pair of socks?

No one along the chain of people involved (teachers, administrators, detention center employees) bothered to speak up and say 'What the fark are we doing?'

/but race obviously isn't an issue
//yeah right

I_Am_Weasel

2011-12-22 05:17:01 PM

Pastor of Muppets: What in these people's minds makes it ok to jail a person over a pair of socks?

Clearly the kid got hosed.

dahmers love zombie

2011-12-22 05:27:29 PM

Hey, it was the kids' fault. If they hadn't been black in Florida, this wouldn't have happened.

/worked for the juvenile system in FL
//csb

Humean_Nature

2011-12-22 05:51:06 PM

Still Burning

Subby's pee?

AbbeySomeone

2011-12-22 06:15:17 PM

Marcus Aurelius: Does the school get a bounty for every kid they incarcerate? Because that would explain a lot.

It worked in PA, why not here too?
Somebody might like to follow the paper trail on this one.

edmo

2011-12-22 06:48:45 PM

And I'll wager those folks down there would be adamantly against something like Sharia law and its judicial excesses.

AbbeySomeone

2011-12-22 06:50:47 PM

edmo: And I'll wager those folks down there would be adamantly against something like Sharia law and its judicial excesses.

Sharia law isn't Christian.

Sanduskyed In The Shower

2011-12-22 07:03:58 PM

AbbeySomeone: edmo: And I'll wager those folks down there would be adamantly against something like Sharia law and its judicial excesses.

Sharia law isn't Christian.

You know what else isn't christian? Your mom when I'm jackhammering her gouzleshoot

2wolves

2011-12-22 07:28:02 PM

Dumbledore's Army anyone?

Petty tyrants everywhere.

OBEY!

TV's Vinnie

2011-12-22 07:40:23 PM

Using chalk on the playground, eh? I'll fix that!

JasonOfOrillia

2011-12-22 07:41:08 PM

This isn't systemic racism, white kids are just never tardy.

/obviously

Mock26

2011-12-22 07:42:01 PM

This is all bullshiatt. Well, all except the socks. The socks were clearly gang-colors and the little gang banger should have been locked up. I am actually appalled that he only spent 3 days in jail.

Buster 49

2011-12-22 07:42:22 PM

Absolutely farking amazing. I thought we left this crap behind with the 1950's.

OtherLittleGuy

2011-12-22 07:42:45 PM

AbbeySomeone: Marcus Aurelius: Does the school get a bounty for every kid they incarcerate? Because that would explain a lot.

It worked in PA, why not here too?
Somebody might like to follow the paper trail on this one.

DNRTA, did not even check the tag, and still thought it occurred in Pennsyltucky.

/no one goes to jail
//no one pays a penny

powhound

2011-12-22 07:43:15 PM

Just preparing the little brown snowflakes for life on the streets?

/keeding

DrZiffle

2011-12-22 07:44:01 PM

Those must've been some ugly motherfarkin' socks.

belhade

2011-12-22 07:44:58 PM

They could be in Birmingham schools and get pepper-sprayed.

Bathia_Mapes

2011-12-22 07:46:24 PM

dahmers love zombie: Hey, it was the kids' fault. If they hadn't been black in Florida, this wouldn't have happened.

/worked for the juvenile system in FL
//csb

Even worse, this happened in Mississippi, not Florida.

doglover

2011-12-22 07:46:39 PM

All the kids were black.

It sounds to me like the cops just had a quota.

Amos Quito

2011-12-22 07:48:47 PM

FTA: "Shakti Belway, attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said all of these cases involved African-American students in Meridian. "

The kids are lucky to be "minorities".

www.radiofreesilver.com

Otherwise this asshat wouldn't give a shiat.

/$ettled out of court?
//LOL!

Bathia_Mapes

2011-12-22 07:49:37 PM

Buster 49: Absolutely farking amazing. I thought we left this crap behind with the 1950's.

It still is the 1950s in some parts of Mississippi.

chuckufarlie

2011-12-22 07:50:41 PM

Bathia_Mapes: Buster 49: Absolutely farking amazing. I thought we left this crap behind with the 1950's.

It still is the 1950s in some parts of Mississippi.

It is still the 1950s in lots of places all over the country, north and south, east and west.

hitmanric

2011-12-22 07:51:48 PM

Humean_Nature: Still Burning

Subby's pee?

FTA: attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said all of these cases involved African-American students in Meridian

Still burning crosses I'm guessing.

Southern poverty Law Center? Is that another name for legal aid?

ronaprhys

2011-12-22 07:52:02 PM

JasonOfOrillia: This isn't systemic racism, white kids are just never tardy.

/obviously

Of course not. White kids have their parents drive them to school, black kids ride city buses.

TomD9938

2011-12-22 07:52:23 PM

In the case of the high school student, she had been arrested for shoplifting and had been told not to violate any of the school rules. "She shows up tardy one day and hears her name called over the loud speaker to come to the principal's office. She spends the next five days behind bars"

Subby accidently left that part out.

Masquerader317

2011-12-22 07:52:58 PM

I know I'm not supposed to show real emotion on a Fark thread, but this is terrifying. The one where the kid gets put in jail for days because he wouldn't stop crying?

I think of my sons and yeah, precious snowflake and all that but, the thought of that actually happening? I would need to be sedated. I would have a serious full on panic attack at the idea of my small child being put in a detention facility over crying too much.

I know, I know, I need to buck up and stop raising a cry-baby~ but in all seriousness, this is unfathomable.

iwanttoeatyourchildren

2011-12-22 07:53:28 PM

I just moved out of the Meridian area, and sadly this story doesn't surprise me.

Hagbardr

2011-12-22 07:53:55 PM

I don't feel tardy.

Kar98

2011-12-22 07:54:14 PM

AbbeySomeone: edmo: And I'll wager those folks down there would be adamantly against something like Sharia law and its judicial excesses.

Sharia law isn't Christian.

Kar98

2011-12-22 07:55:22 PM

chuckufarlie: Bathia_Mapes: Buster 49: Absolutely farking amazing. I thought we left this crap behind with the 1950's.

It still is the 1950s in some parts of Mississippi.

It is still the 1950s in lots of places all over the country, north and south, east and west.

But mostly South. Except those areas where it's still the 1830s. Looking at you, east Texas.

Car_Ramrod

2011-12-22 07:55:31 PM

TomD9938: In the case of the high school student, she had been arrested for shoplifting and had been told not to violate any of the school rules. "She shows up tardy one day and hears her name called over the loud speaker to come to the principal's office. She spends the next five days behind bars"

Subby accidently left that part out.

I agree, being tardy does require 5 days in jail.

*rolls eyes*

archichris

2011-12-22 07:55:32 PM

Pastor of Muppets: What in these people's minds makes it ok to jail a person over a pair of socks?

No one along the chain of people involved (teachers, administrators, detention center employees) bothered to speak up and say 'What the fark are we doing?'

/but race obviously isn't an issue
//yeah right

Im not defending it.....

But I think the issue is these kids may be in a detention center type of school, like you are there because you are about to go to jail school. I infer that from the article, not firsthand knowledge.

What I do know is that both the public schools and the zero tolerance policy are broken and need to be completely gutted.

The numbers on what we spend on poor kids are staggering, and the results just beggar the imagination. Most of them incarcerated or poor for life or harmed mentally by the system. It has to be somewhat intentional because only an idiot can look at the numbers of what we spend vs the results we achieve and say that the public schooling and welfare system are working for kids.

phalaeo

2011-12-22 07:56:02 PM

Wow.

I'm just.......
Wow.

ronaprhys

2011-12-22 07:56:27 PM

Hagbardr: I don't feel tardy.

I've got my pencil - gimme something to write on.

Kar98

2011-12-22 07:57:02 PM

TomD9938: In the case of the high school student, she had been arrested for shoplifting and had been told not to violate any of the school rules. "She shows up tardy one day and hears her name called over the loud speaker to come to the principal's office. She spends the next five days behind bars"

Subby accidently left that part out.

Sorry. In a civilized country, children don't get actually arrested for shoplifting either. They get a stern talking to, and are made to apologize to the shop keeper.

CarriePrejean

2011-12-22 07:57:25 PM

TomD9938: Subby accidently left that part out.

Really? I know an awful lot of white kids who were arrested for shoplifting at some point in our teenage years. I know NONE who spent even a minute behind bars.

CarriePrejean

2011-12-22 07:59:07 PM

archichris: The numbers on what we spend on poor kids are staggering, and the results just beggar the imagination. Most of them incarcerated or poor for life or harmed mentally by the system. It has to be somewhat intentional because only an idiot can look at the numbers of what we spend vs the results we achieve and say that the public schooling and welfare system are working for kids.

It's too bad we don't have more programs like Second Mile to positively influence at-risk youth.

Rufus Lee King

2011-12-22 07:59:19 PM

White people are evil. Thread over.

AcneVulgaris

2011-12-22 07:59:50 PM

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

matthew_tray

2011-12-22 08:00:08 PM

Masquerader317: I know I'm not supposed to show real emotion on a Fark thread, but this is terrifying. The one where the kid gets put in jail for days because he wouldn't stop crying?

This.

Like a lot of kids, I had some behavioral issues. I regret to say a few of them still follow me as an adult. This was amongst them. I'm not hear to judge the child for what may be going on at home b/c my home life was at times pretty sad. Some kids don't have an emotional outlet and it comes out in the classroom.

And to paddle that kid? To send him away? Wow...you know what?

That makes me want to cry. My thoughts and prayers to youngster in question.

TomD9938

2011-12-22 08:00:28 PM

Car_Ramrod: TomD9938: In the case of the high school student, she had been arrested for shoplifting and had been told not to violate any of the school rules. "She shows up tardy one day and hears her name called over the loud speaker to come to the principal's office. She spends the next five days behind bars"

Subby accidently left that part out.

I agree, being tardy does require 5 days in jail.

*rolls eyes*

Shoplifting sure does (waits for eyes to finish rolling).

My guess is she was on probation of sorts for that crime and it didnt penetrate that any fark up = jailing for the original offence.

But yeah. They should kiss her ass instead.

TeddyBallGame

2011-12-22 08:00:38 PM

Pastor of Muppets: No one along the chain of people involved (teachers, administrators, detention center employees) bothered to speak up and say 'What the fark are we doing?'

Seriously? Are these people out of their farking minds? I rail against frivolous lawsuits but man I would sue everyone within a 50 mile radius of that farking place. Wow.

ronaprhys

2011-12-22 08:00:58 PM

Rufus Lee King: White people are evil. Thread over.

Of course we are. Except that Jesus was obviously white.

idiot.

Vegemite

2011-12-22 08:01:02 PM

Kar98: TomD9938: In the case of the high school student, she had been arrested for shoplifting and had been told not to violate any of the school rules. "She shows up tardy one day and hears her name called over the loud speaker to come to the principal's office. She spends the next five days behind bars"

Subby accidently left that part out.

Sorry. In a civilized country, children don't get actually arrested for shoplifting either. They get a stern talking to, and are made to apologize to the shop keeper.

My brother did a little community service as well for shop lifting.

UCFRoadWarrior

2011-12-22 08:03:51 PM

Problem with our schools are the people running them.

50% percent of the people involved in running our public schools should be fired, on the spot. That would be a good start

Whenever I hear politicians go after school spending...they focus too much on the teachers...never the people running the schools...which is why you get this nonsense.

Politicians keep the admin wonks because many politicians end up with those jobs when they leave politics

This stupid stuff is happening everywhere, not just Mississippi

Car_Ramrod

2011-12-22 08:04:42 PM

TomD9938: Car_Ramrod: TomD9938: In the case of the high school student, she had been arrested for shoplifting and had been told not to violate any of the school rules. "She shows up tardy one day and hears her name called over the loud speaker to come to the principal's office. She spends the next five days behind bars"

Subby accidently left that part out.

I agree, being tardy does require 5 days in jail.

*rolls eyes*

Shoplifting sure does (waits for eyes to finish rolling).

My guess is she was on probation of sorts for that crime and it didnt penetrate that any fark up = jailing for the original offence.

But yeah. They should kiss her ass instead.

You're right, either draconian laws, or praise misbehavior. There is no middle ground. I agree.

*still rolling*

Fluorescent Testicle

2011-12-22 08:05:39 PM

As much as that movie bored me when I watched it in high school, that was an exceptionally clever headline, subby. Once you "Get" it, it sums up the where, what and why within the first two words.

/Invisible liter +1.

Amos Quito

2011-12-22 08:05:44 PM

hitmanric: Southern poverty Law Center? Is that another name for legal aid?

No, the SPLC is a politically motivated shake-down racket - kind of like Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Push" - only better organized, more litigious, better financed, and much more sinister.

/divide and conquer

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