NEWS: No Child Left Behind

CULTURE: No Child Left Behind

Unless, of course, they're expelled for having their wrists broken by school security guards.

Watch this video: the girl went back to clean up the dropped cake three times and finally left for class when the security guard decided to get all George Wallace on her.



As Brownfemipower points out, shit like this does not exactly help black (or brown, or poor) kids with that whole "stay in school and succeed" party line. And no, this isn't an isolated incident: in March, Florida police arrested and cuffed a kindergarten girl for having a tantrum, a few years ago there was a lawsuit filed over frequent arrests of Indian children at school in South Dakota, the drug raid at Stratford High School, where--though the student body is 80% white--90 of the 107 students arrested were black. And of course you've heard--I hope!--of the Jena 6. I'm willing to bet you all can come up with other stories like this, too.

Then of course there are the high-profile cases of police violence/harassment of black adults: Amadou Diallo and Rodney King are the famous cases, but here are a few more recent ones: Kathryn Johnson, Jessie Lee Williams, Jr., Timothy Stansbury, Robert Davis, Frank Jude, Jr., Timothy Stansbury, Jr., Juan Herrera, Donovan Jackson,

Whether you want to admit that this kind of racist authoritarian bullshit is endemic or not, you have to acknowledge that there's good reason for young black people to distrust authority figures. Especially when the kid videotaping the assault on the cake-dropping girl also gets roughed up and arrested, and the girl's mother gets arrested--and suspended from her job--for marching into the school--as any parent would after a security guard broke her daughter's wrist and demanding the guard's arrest.

Below is footage from a protest at the school last Friday.


Another news story here. The moms of the students arrested are demanding that the guard be fired and their children's expulsions reversed.

Bitch_PhD is amazed by the women's restraint; she'd be suing the pants off the guard, the principal, and the district, if it were her kid.

fuck! those guards are insane or what?

The "nappy head" part seems kinda odd. A little convenient, especially after the Don Imus ordeal. Everything else is typical bullshit that's unnecessary, like the kids with the camera phone being arrested.

awful.
i read about this earlier today and it's just fucking nuts.

fucked up...

Why does shit like this happen?
I can't even wrap my head around it.

Wow, that mother and that girl are going to own that school. It's just amazing to me that shit like this is going on in our schools. That security guard needs to be fired, and then arrested for assault, with a hate crime multiplier attached.

Its scary that a guy like this would have gotten such a job in the first place...it's hard to believe that he's never been reported for innapropriate behavior before...then again if he isn't being punished NOW...

Because people are idiots.

I want some high-powered opportunistic attorney like Alan Dershowitz to step in and pro-bono sue the crap out of all of them. But then, that is my entitled white middle-class perspective. Those poor kids - can't imagine how many will want to remain there.

Side note;

"Indian" is still an appropriate term for Indigenous people? Both Bitch_phD and the article linked made use of it. Am I crazy for being taken aback by that?

I feel the need to comment... but I just don't know what to say. What the fuck is wrong with you people? How has your country become so FUCKED up that a young girl has her wrist broken for dropping a piece of cake... and yet, in the eyes of the law she's still not the victim? Makes me sick...

Gotta love the MySpace font in the "my fox" logo.

Rupert Murdoch doesn't fuck around when it come to consolidation.

Thanks for the clarification. Using the term "Indian" in most places of Canada will be met with rolled-eyes at the least and calls of "racism" pretty often.

C'mon, dude. Before you start with the "holier than thou" attitude, you may want to learn about your own child abuse epidemic.

Child abuse is sickening no matter where it happens. But don't think for one minute that it doesn't occur in your own neighborhood.

amazing......yes i'm sure we all have stories like this to tell.

this is just ridiculous. kudos to the kid for making sure he got it on camera.

the guards did the wrong thing and they arrested everyone who acussed the guards of doing the wrong thing. thats fucked up. thats just the people in control covering for each other. the people in power in amercia seem to treat everyone like slaves who have no rights and who better do exactly what they say or else. i feel sorry for everyone there.

I totally thought that there were some unruly kids of Asian Indian descent at those schools in South Dekota.

No really thats how weird it is for me to hear, hell I am had a hard time getting used to American Indian being tossed around my Introduction to Native American History class.

there is actually a large number of native americans that identify with the term "indian." some don't like it, some don't care. it's not necessarily a derogatory term.

Could you get us the names and addresses of said guards, we shall fix it ourselves please. The courts will never be able to do it. The revolution must begin soon. Bastille day was very effective in the course of history.

I don't understand. How were the guards not fired an sued for excessive force? Are these rent-a-cops or actual police officers stationed in the school? Either way, why do they still have jobs? He must feel like a real big man, breaking a little girl's wrist over some spilled cake.

Damn right. On the face of it, I see charges of assault, battery, wrongful imprisonment, and intentional infliction of emotional distress arising from this. They ought to nail the bastards.

...a hate crime? are you serious?

oh, and believe it or not, i am longtime friends with t pair of indian siblings. they cal themselves indians and don't see what the big deal is.