NEWS: No Child Left Behind

And, now I'm pissed, first thing in the morning.

I'm starting to think that maybe people in 'security positions', police, school guards, etc., are all dosing on amphatamines or steroids or something. It's the only thing that can explain this.

Also, loved the story about the kindegarten kid being arrested. "Oh my God, she was flailing her arms and biting and scratching, let's arrest her!" As if SIX-YEAR OLDS have never done that. Teachers and principals are such fucking 'tards.

It actually doesn't sound at all like that. It sounded like he said that justice will catch up with these people eventually, and that's because it's what he did say.

Saying that he has faith that the justice system will eventually punish egregious injustices doesn't even imply that he thinks the injustices weren't egregious.

When they screw up and get caught? The sucky thing is that people have to pay for the damage?
gah...Well. I thought the sucky part was the girl getting her arm broken and then innocent people getting arrested and expelled. *shrug*. Doesn't the school have insurance of some sort for being sued, like hospitals/restaurants do? Isn't it unfair that these kids parents are paying for the schools with the same taxes we do, and then aren't able to go?
It's not some few people making a bad mistake, it's a hateful attitude that is still present in our country (in the world) and needs to be directly addressed.

I have an Native American friend who says that only guilt-ridden white people use the term Native American.

Also, it's cool. She was probably an immigrant who wanted to use our tax money for her gay abortion.

Ineed. Damn tax-sucking gay abortion-having child immigrants.

Sigh.

The security guard needs to be dragged out in the street and shot. Stupid fucks like that deserve it.

I have to agree with Salieri. In Alberta at least, you'll get looks of shock if you use the term "Indian". I stick with the term "native" myself. My profs all use "aboriginal".

Though, during the time my education was in french, the term "Amerindien" came up a lot. -->Amercan Indian.

I guess it just differs from region to region.

This post deserves an award for outstanding use of irony. =)

It's legal to break someone's wrist for dropping cake? Perhaps you mean people being attacked by police/security when they shouldn't have been. You're right, there are cases in any country for that... I don't recall children having their wrists broken by police/security for dropping cake in Australia recently... Especially not in a fucking school. The mind still boggles...

"An Open Letter" By Stuck Mojo talks about racism. Really good to listen to...

so listen to it.

It is simple. If I see a group of people walking down the street and and I say to someone, "hey, I used to go to school with that guy." and they say back "which one?." and I say "The black one." Then it is politically incorrect. There is no need for me to identify him by his colour. I could of identified him as the one on the left,..the one in brown trousers,..the one with the shaved head, the one with brief case,..the one with his arm around the girl...There is a a myriad of ways I could have identified him..but I choose to identify him by his race....honestly, you live in America..you people coined the phase 'politically incorrect.'

*takes a bow*

A black guy, a white guy, and an Indian guy were sitting around having a beer, and they all decided that people spend way too much time worrying about what they should call people.

Next thing you know, we won't be able to use, blonde, brunette, or redhead to describe somebody... it might offend someone. I think whether or not you use a physical attribute to describe a person very much depends on the context that it's used in. If it is used in a derogetory manner then it is inappropriate. I don't get offended if someone calls me white. But if they were using my skin colour to try and make a disparaging comment to or about me, obviously that would be different.

Ridiculous. I just don't understand what is wrong with people these days.

The news seems to be nothing short of littered by articles about people getting drunk, breaking into museums, and destroying priceless paintings... Jealous ex's (an off-duty cop, no less) shooting his friends when he didn't get an invitation to a pizza/movie party... Mothers either chopping the limbs off of their children and wondering why they're STILL crying, or just microwaving them in order to shut them up.. And that's of course when they aren't killing pregnant women and 'stealing' their unborn babies, then claiming them as their own.

Society today just boggles me. Perplexes me. Disgusts me.