[Eldon Tyrell]

Funny how no one even questions the skin color of the murderer.

It is an automatic.

If he was such an angel - why was the 14 year old in 8th grade? I wonder how stupid one needs to be to be held back in a majority minority school?

[dfwgator]

White called his client's actions reckless but unintentional and asked that the teen be allowed to stay at his mother's home -- where he is the oldest of about 10 children

Now, can anybody tell me what's missing in this picture?

[Politicalmom]

Most school districts these days are requiring children to be 5 by Sept. 1. 14-year-old 8th-graders are the norm. My gifted daughter has an October birthday, and they wouldn’t let her enter kindergarten until she was almost 6, even though she’d been reading for over a year.