Posted on 09/30/2019 2:12:41 PM PDT by Morgana
TOMBALL, Texas — The disturbing story of an 8-year-old Tomball boy who was beaten unconscious at school Tuesday struck a chord with parents across the nation.
Christian Boynton, a third-grader, was ambushed when he arrived at Lakewood Elementary School, according to Kailee Boynton, his sister.
"They pinned my brother down. They were beating him. They beat him to the point of unconsciousness, where they continued to beat him," Kailee said. "They went through his backpack."
Christian was rushed to Texas Children's Hospital after being found unconscious in the bathroom.
Neurologists treated him for a brain bleed and monitored him for several hours before he was allowed to return home. He is expected to be okay.
Many on social media questioned whether the bullies who attacked Christian should be charged with assault. Others want their parents held accountable.
Tomball police say they assisted with the investigation, but determined the students involved are too young to be criminally culpable. Under Texas law, children under 10 cannot be prosecuted for committing crim
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arth ping,
The kids are black, right? Therefore if so then there can be no penalty for simple cultural differences.
Time for the victim’s dad to go find the biggest 9 year old in the county.
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as I have said many times before: the authorities will ALWAYS side with the bullies
Kids being kids right? NOT!
Sue the school.
Sue the Board of Education.
Sue the parents of the little twerps.
Find their names out and make them public.
sue the pants off the school\school district for not keeping a safe environment...
“sue the pants off the school\school district for not keeping a safe environment...”
This had happened before. Yes own that school
Maybe if the bullies had hugged him they would have taken action like the teacher who reported a 5 year old for hugging a classmate.
Hold the indignation. The answer to your question is in the
article.
“Tomball police say they assisted with the investigation, but determined the students involved are too young to be criminally culpable. Under Texas law, children under 10 cannot be prosecuted for committing crimes.”
If you don’t like the law, start a movement to change it. We don’t live in a system where police, prosecutors or judges should disregard the law and do the “right” thing.
I got message loud and clear when working at a state agency.
The guy was a known belligerent and had a fairly thick file of incidents.
However he blew up on me a few times. At least once, I figured he was going to take a swing at me. Of course, it was my fault in the eyes of management.
Third graders didn’t do this in my day. Yes there were bullies. Middle school kids being the worse. Never remember 3rd graders doing this.
First place to look is the parents.
“Maybe if the bullies had hugged him they would have taken action”
Or, God forbid, use incorrect pronouns.
ROFLMAO!!!
When I was in 6th grade 3 or 4 of my classmates tried to throw a kid that they had bullied for years off of a three-story old metal stairway onto the cement floor below.
When I saw them trying to throw him over the top railing I dived for the kid’s lower legs, wrapped my hands around his legs and the metal railings & held on for dear life until they released him.
The police were called in and from what I remember they got a good yelling at & nothing else happened to them.
Number one is o.k.
Number two is o.k.
Number three The parents probably don’t have any money or anything to sue for. On top of not giving a damn.
Number four, making their names public would just give them street cred, and they would enjoy it.
Get Kailee the hell away from these animals while you still have her.
“Third graders didn’t do this in my day. Yes there were bullies. Middle school kids being the worse. Never remember 3rd graders doing this.
First place to look is the parents.”
Not only did third graders NOT do this in our day but even when the big boys did fight this story of thing never happened. Fighting was about being macho and would stop when a teacher or principal came around. The fights were not killing each other and putting someone in the hospital.
The girl fights that did happen? Oh yea they were terrible teachers hated getting in the middle of those but even then those were mostly hair pulling and slapping. Now even the girls fight like men.
My first thought was that it was due to the Obama Era “discipline guidance”, but I had forgotten that Trump had rescinded this.
For those who don’t remember what that is, I posted it below:
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What is the discipline guidance?
Federal agencies often issue nonbinding civil rights guidance to inform local organizations, like school districts, how they plan to enforce civil rights laws.
The discipline guidance put in place under President Obama suggested schools could run afoul of federal civil rights laws if they disciplined students of color at higher rates than their peers. Federal data show black and Latino students are disciplined at higher rates than white students, and the discipline guidance said schools have an obligation to address those disparities.
Why is the guidance controversial?
The stickiest part of the guidance is its language on “disparate impact,” which is the principle that disciplinary policies may violate civil rights laws if they lead to higher rates of discipline for some student groups, even if they are written without discriminatory intent.
Citing court precedents, it included guidelines for determining if a school rule that leads to more discipline for one student group could violate civil rights law:
The policy must be necessary to meet “an important educational goal.” For example, a school rule banning more than two braids might disproportionately affect black students, and it might not be justified for educational purposes.
If the policy is necessary to meet an important educational goal, the school must show it has considered alternative policies that meet that goal while placing less of a “burden or adverse impact” on one group of students.
Civil rights groups praised the directive, saying it provided assurance that schools couldn’t get away with problematic policies and that it would catalyze efforts to address implicit bias.
Critics of the directive said it was too heavy handed. Investigating a single complaint, the Obama administration’s civil rights arm would look at a school’s greater discipline data to see if there are disparities. And some, including some conservative groups, disagreed with how often the administration asserted that exclusionary discipline, like suspensions, caused too much of an adverse impact on students. That position led some districts to curb the use of suspensions too aggressively, creating chaotic learning environments, they said.
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When I learned of this on FR, I was astonished (even though I shouldn’t be) to hear of this Obama travesty. It is absolutely typical Leftism, even the dimmest of foaming-mouth Leftists should look at it and wonder how this wouldn’t encourage violence and racial strife.
I would not be in the least bit surprised to hear some school district or locality implemented some watered down version of this abortion.
“The police were called in and from what I remember they got a good yelling at & nothing else happened to them.”
Yea this is why we have to have lawsuits because the police and school don’t do anything but when you hit them where it really hurts ie the money they do something.
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