Posted on 01/07/2008 12:13:28 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
The Philadelphia School District says they will launch an investigation into a disturbing video posted on Myspace. The video shows two girls fighting as other kids and adults egg the fight on.
---snip--- In the background of the video, you can hear a man's voice saying "uppercut her, uppercut her." At some point, Shaquia says "I can't breathe." Another voice, a woman's says "I'll give you five seconds
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Not everyone. Most people know EXACTLY why it is the way it is. It's the people who live there, the priorities they share, and the way children are raised.
I thought it was Bush’s fault?
Yup. That’s our Great Society — caught on videotape. Thanks LBJ!
Well, it's somebody's fault, as long as that "somebody" is not a member of their own community, who are blameless for all their own actions and circumstances.
Lets be honest now.
If You Tube was around in 1964,you would have seen numerous fights,riots,”can jams”,etc at or around my all white suburban high school.
Yeah,its crazy in the hood.I know that all too well.But lets just not focus on one group.
Agreed but the adults were in control and took responsibility?
Apparently this situation as going on for quite some time..
True,thats the difference between our hooliganism and the madness in the hood.
We rebelled and acted irresponsibly and immorally in many cases.Yet we never questioned the fact that our parents had our best interests at heart and would bail us out of our stupidity.
Kids in the hood don’t have that.Like Tupac said,”In the ghetto its the blind leading the blind,a world of woe with no peace of mind”.
The black middle class has suburbiated out of the hood.Whats left is not very pretty.
I saw a show a while back that had punk kids running loose on the street that were making little kids fight eachother for their entertainment. The kids would get beat up and cry, and the older kids would justify it by saying,”Life is hard, we’re just teaching the kids to be tough.” Liberals teaching survival of the fittest.
Shaquia????? Wonder who she might be?
I thought Midnight Basketball was supposed to solve this?
I used to beg my parents to drive me to school, but my protests fell on deaf ears.
If You Tube was around in 1964,you would have seen numerous fights,riots,”can jams”,etc at or around my all white suburban high school.<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Don’t know where you went to school, but I was in public suburban HS in ‘64 and can assure you there was nothing like this taking place at our school. We didn’t need a wall around the school then, and the one truant officer assigned for well over 3000 kids considered it a bad day if a bunch of kids left school at noon without lunch permits or ditched a few classes. Kids would fight each other on occasion, but any adults were quick to break it up, not encourage it.
Most of the kids who got in trouble were nailed for smoking or ditching. I knew one girl who got pregnant and was visibly pregnant at graduation (she was married), and could count on one hand the others who were said to have ever been pregnant throughout high school.
"Riots?"
Uh huh.
I don’t want to tell you excactly where I went to school but it was no picnic at all.Little thugs used to extort lunch money.One fight was so brutal that the local rabbi wrote a front page editorial in the town paper denouncing the anti-Semitism surrounding the beating.Classes were often chaotic and kids would shoot bent pieces of metal at each other with rubber bands,Its a miracle no one lost an eye.
I have been in some pretty rough situations in the hood too.The difference is,as you noted,is the absence of responsible adults squashing the insanity.
I had a childhood education free from bullying, violence, and intimidation.
Of course, for many on this site, I missed a crucial character-building experience.
I had the same school bus drama.
What was so bad was that the friver rarely intervened.I guess he thought imposing any semblance of order was”not his job”.
After a while,I started walking to school.Good exercise and didn’t always have to watch my back.
You were home schooled? I often envy you guys. The kids at my government school were scum.
Shaquia is Shakeila’s sister!
My bus drivers were usually bitter old hags that would tell us to “SHADD-UP!”
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