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Why You Can Expect To See More Violence In Schools This Year
thefederalist.com ^ | Sep. 15, 2016 | Joy Pullmann

Posted on 09/18/2016 10:37:50 AM PDT by PROCON

Two years ago I chased down a single dad whose son attended schools in the same district as the infamous Missourian Michael Brown. Sixty-six-year-old Paul Davis, a cab driver and son of Mississippi sharecroppers, decided to pay $1,500 in rent atop his mortgage just to get his son Robert out of some of the nation’s most violent schools by establishing residency in a better school district.

Davis told me about the time in fifth grade other black boys had held Robert down until he peed on himself; the time bullies stole his book bag; the many times they attacked Robert—in classrooms, in hallways, in the lunch room.

In middle school Robert, who has mild autism, became a favorite target for bullies because his mom is white and his dad is black, so “he was the lightest kid in the whole school.” Eight days into seventh grade, another boy shoved Robert’s arm between two desks. The teacher called an administrator, who took Robert to the nurse’s room. The nurse wasn’t there, so the administrator sent Robert back to class. And that was the end of it. Davis’s blood boiled.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; children; doj; education; minorities; racism; schools; violence
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To: PROCON

I hate to say this and I might get flammed but after reading that article, I began to hope for more Columbine style shootings in these failing Democrap schools. They deserve it.


21 posted on 09/20/2016 9:30:54 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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