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My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3.
Washington Post ^ | 07/24/2014 | By Tunette Powell

Posted on 07/25/2014 2:47:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Edited on 07/25/2014 3:12:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

I received a call from my sons

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: education; tunette; zerotolerance
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To: lee martell

Nothing’s said about the circumstances, apparently. Was it a sturdy chair and thrown in such a way as to not cause it or anything or anybody else harm? I mean boys shouldn’t be doing that, they should be throwing balls or doing other energetic things appropriate to a gym or outdoors, but not every such thing needs to be ginned up into a federal case. It used to be that a stern warning (by a MALE teacher) and a promise to paddle the boy if he does that again, would have sufficed.


41 posted on 07/25/2014 3:52:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Look how she one-hand catches that chair someone throws at her after she chucks the table. Cool in combat.


42 posted on 07/25/2014 3:54:12 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: twister881
What's really interesting is that as far as I can see, there are no studies at all on whether black teachers suspend black students at a higher rate or no. Absolutely ZERO. Run a Google search and you'll see... no one dares even ask this question.

But it needs to be asked, because if black kids are getting in trouble even in schools where the teachers are black... then it's most likely not racism.

43 posted on 07/25/2014 3:57:00 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Snoopers-868th
According to this article she got other parents’ experiences and their kids were not suspended. I guess that is proof enough for me.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, so I'll just go ahead and play it straight: we don't know the full story. If that other kid threw something and it was the very first time he'd ever gotten in trouble, that might be a factor. We don't know what he threw, either. Eraser? Not quite the same as a chair. Does her child work the teacher's nerves relentlessly all day? Might could be so, yes? I'd just want to know more.

44 posted on 07/25/2014 4:00:24 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

It’s true, that it is hard to get the truth out of situations like this.

But still. Where are the men?


45 posted on 07/25/2014 4:01:52 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“A recent study published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that the subjects — mostly white, female undergraduates — viewed black boys as older and less innocent than their white peers. “

But of course this is what it’s ALL about....


46 posted on 07/25/2014 4:02:56 PM PDT by CrappieLuck
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To: Responsibility2nd

Questions for Tunette: (1) What are you going to do to discipline your brat so he stops acting like a monster? (2) If the kid hurts another kid because he is allowed to remain in class, are you going to pay the victim’s medical bills?


47 posted on 07/25/2014 4:06:12 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Responsibility2nd

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48 posted on 07/25/2014 4:16:27 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: wintertime; Morgana

Yep that is just begging for the kids to be abused


49 posted on 07/25/2014 4:19:16 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: twister881
and most never suspended at all during elementary & secondary education

Well no more than tree times and only after I got to high school. I had this quirk. When a kid hit me hard as in to inflict pain wanting to fight I would hit back. First time it happened I hit back. Suspended. Second time same thing. Third time I didn't and still got three days. My parents put the principal on notice at that point I would continue to defend myself suspension or no. No I wasn't a kid that went around looking for trouble or tried to get into trouble.

By my senior year I had transferred to a smaller high school. One guy picked a fight & I returned a punch. We were sent to the principal. He told me go on to class. The other kid he said step inside the office. Other kid was a known trouble maker. Neither of us got suspension. This was in the early 1970's BTW. Of all the ones I got in a fight with none ever bothered me again. In high school today a simple fist fight results in police action.

50 posted on 07/25/2014 4:26:39 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Jack Hammer

You could be right, but imagine if your child or grandchild came home and said I got hit my a chair that some little boy threw.


51 posted on 07/25/2014 4:30:22 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: twister881

The fact the mother brags about her own suspensions in school is very telling. . .


52 posted on 07/25/2014 4:30:37 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: BenLurkin

The ‘amazing father’ would be the obvious person to straighten the kid out, yet aside from a single throw away reference he doesn’t seem to factor in as a possible solution to the problem.


53 posted on 07/25/2014 4:32:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: A_perfect_lady

I think any three year old that throws chairs has a problem or is a serious problem child.


54 posted on 07/25/2014 4:33:28 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I wasn’t being sarcastic. Neither was I comparing all the offenses. No one was hurt and I think it is outrageous that a teacher cannot handle a 3 yr old and that situation and then phone the parent to inform them and that applies to all the parents regardless of the offense. Why do we always go for the glass half empty?


55 posted on 07/25/2014 4:36:25 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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To: Responsibility2nd

get into a decent private school - ie not pc - or homeschool. normal kids can’t make it in govt indoctrination centers today.


56 posted on 07/25/2014 4:36:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This seems out of whack. If this was my kid, I’d be down at the school immediately to observe what was going on. In fact, I was always in the classrooms from the beginning, helping the teachers and observing my kids, to make sure they could handle the classroom setting. Why isn’t this mother doing that? Her sons are so young, and they are obviously having trouble, yet she doesn’t go immediately and find out what’s going on?

No, she talks to her friends, decides it’s racism, and writes an article, decides to take on a national awareness raising campaign. No, get your butt down and help your sons, or get them out of that situation. That’s your job as a parent!

That parenting style- disconnected- likely stems from her own dysfunctional parents, and is a big reason why her kids are acting up. They need her 100 percent ,
undivided, attention.
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57 posted on 07/25/2014 4:37:50 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Responsibility2nd

3 year olds don’t go to school.


58 posted on 07/25/2014 4:41:52 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: Snoopers-868th

I still don’t know enough. Are the other kids constant pains in the rear, or was their misbehavior a one-time thing?

Are the other kids always smarting off, or are they generally nice and well-behaved? What about the author’s kids? Are they generally well-behaved?

If two kids throw chairs and one is always in trouble, but the other never is, they deserve to be punished differently.


59 posted on 07/25/2014 4:50:40 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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To: Snoopers-868th

Ah. Well... I’d like to hear the teacher’s side of the story anyway. But yes, I do think suspending a 3 year old is a bit odd.


60 posted on 07/25/2014 4:51:06 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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