3rd Graders plotted to harm their teacher

[IDrinkaRum]

XCashier - the link doesn't work.

I did read a similar article. Some people were saying that she brought it on herself for stuff she said about the bullies on her MySpace page.

The bullies deserve whatever sentence they get. No one deserves that.

[AFPheonix]

Everybody thinks they live in dangerous times.

Youth are no worse today than they have ever been. In fact, I'd hazard a guess and say they might actually be a bit nicer.

We're not clubbing each other over meat in caves anymore, after all.

Bingo. We just hear about it more these days is all.

[IDrinkaRum]

Texas Teenager assaulted over history project

http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=8132283

Girl was given history project to make a sign for or against something. She made a sign against illegal immigration. It got passed around during lunch, and Latino males attacked her. Threatening her life and threatening to rape her. When asking for help, was told to go back to class AND was NOT allowed to call her parents.

[DesignFox]

http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=8132283

Girl was given history project to make a sign for or against something. She made a sign against illegal immigration. It got passed around during lunch, and Latino males attacked her. Threatening her life and threatening to rape her. When asking for help, was told to go back to class AND was NOT allowed to call her parents.

That's horrible. I can't believe the teachers sent that girl back to class after she was involved in a fight....I remember if kids fought they got sent to the principal's office- bullies and victims together.... you didn't just waltz into your next class! Sheesh.

[Boozy]

This teacher decided that making a protest sign, for or against any issue, was a good idea for a project.

How exactly did this play out in this teacher's mind? How does someone with a brain NOT see this as possibly inflammatory?

This person has questionable judgment at best, is a complete moron at worst, and they are teaching children. Good lord.

[DesignFox]

...This person has questionable judgment at best, is a complete moron at worst, and they are teaching children...

I don't see how it's a bad project. The class could have discussion about different "hot" topics and why they are for or against them.

Perhaps the teacher should have discussed the student's choices with them ahead of time, or picked the topics for the students beforehand and let them choose one to research- that way there would be some level of control over the level of controversy involved.

I can see why just making the sign would be a bad idea, but I feel that the teacher probably had a different motive for the project than the one we are seeing.

What I think is stupid is the school's reaction to the fight that ensued.

And yes, MAYBE, controversial debate would be better suited to a college classroom, but I can recall studying some pretty sensitive issues in my high school classes and no one ever got threatened because of their opinions.

Granted I was in Advanced Placement and Honors classes...but we don't know the level of education these kids are at- they could be, too.

[Boozy]

I don't see how it's a bad project. The class could have discussion about different "hot" topics and why they are for or against them.

But a protest sign is not a discussion or debate. Protest signs are inflammatory by their very nature. They are meant to be.

[DesignFox]

I see the assignment as a segway into, "why would you protest this issue?"

Maybe not the clearest line of thinking, but I can see it.

[Sylvia727]

That's horrible. I can't believe the teachers sent that girl back to class after she was involved in a fight....I remember if kids fought they got sent to the principal's office- bullies and victims together.... you didn't just waltz into your next class! Sheesh.

I can believe it. I saw milder versions every day at my high school. Of course, we were the only school in the county that taught English as a Second Language and the only school that "desegregated" by bussing black kids in from the impoverished inner city. So yeah, no one gave a shit about the 'minoirity' school.

Four black kids from deseg ambushed and sexually harassed my sister - then she got called racist for specifying what they looked like. The school moved the boys out of her classes, but she still passed them in the halls every day. One of the boys had assaulted a girl before, so he got a one day suspension.

Bastards.

[XCashier]

XCashier - the link doesn't work.

Try this link.

And military school would not be bad as it would teach discipline, respect and obedience to authority.

And if they try that stunt on a military school teacher, they'll learn PDQ that it's a Very Bad Idea.

[Nekojin]

There are stupid and abusive kids in every school, unfortunately. And many times, the Administration's hands are tied with regard to what to do with them.

During my Freshman year in high school, I went to Leuzinger High School in Lawndale, CA. For those who don't know the area, it borders on major gang-land territory. The school itself was ringed in 15-foot-high chain-link fences (replaced with 15' high wrought-iron fences, after I left).

At one point, I was beaten up. Nothing serious, just a few bruises. But not only was my assailant suspended, so was I, even though I did not fight back. I didn't mention it to my parents, and went to school the next day to appeal the verdict. The admin staff that I talked to said that was the rule, and there was nothing that could be done about it. So I went to sit and read at the nearby Public Library, where I spent a great deal of time after school. Around noon, my grandmother showed up - the school had called my parents, and they had called her, to have her come talk to me.