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Girl, 7, beaten unconscious by classmates at Md. elementary school
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/24570454/girl-7-beaten-unconscious-by-classmates-at-md-elementary-school ^

Posted on 01/29/2014 6:47:19 AM PST by MNDude

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. -

A 7-year-old girl at Thomas Claggett Elementary School in District Heights, Md., was beaten unconscious by at least four classmates Tuesday morning.

It happened during recess in the school’s gymnasium.

The little girl’s parents say their daughter was taken by ambulance to Children's Hospital in D.C. She was diagnosed with a mild concussion.

Her mother, Phersephone Holland, says she can't believe it happened at school.

"That's my baby. I bring her to school and that's the least thing I expect is a phone call informing me that my daughter is unconscious,” she says.

Holland says she is wondering where all the adults were during the attack. So is the victim's father, Rodney Smyers. He says this isn't the first time his daughter has been bullied and hit at school.

(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
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To: mmichaels1970

I agree, the laws that protect minors from prosecution are what is driving this.


21 posted on 01/29/2014 7:06:22 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: sickoflibs
"Her mother, Phersephone Holland, says she can't believe it happened at school."

93% chance mom believes in "Hope" and "Change", though.

22 posted on 01/29/2014 7:06:40 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: MNDude

A certain lack of a specific detail tells me all I need to know.


23 posted on 01/29/2014 7:07:15 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Gaffer
RE :”I lived there - when I was nine years old. My dad finally came back from Korea and elsewhere and got stationed at Andrews AFB. While he was gone we lived with Grandpa and when he came back, we lived in an apartment in District Heights. Haven’ been back there in 50 years.’

Its inside the DC beltway too.

Way back in late 1990s I visited a friend in nearby Upper Marlboro Maryland,that's just a few miles east of there, but outside that beltway, and it was Obama-country for sure.

I bet lots of foreclosures too place there.

24 posted on 01/29/2014 7:08:37 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: MNDude

in what part of Liberia is District Heights, Md. located?


25 posted on 01/29/2014 7:09:40 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: P-Marlowe
I'm going to assume the little girl was white and the perps were all black.

You flunk current events. On statistical grounds most crime is black on black. On listening to the news cast, being white with two black parents rates a probability of being white at 0.00001

26 posted on 01/29/2014 7:10:03 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Sooth2222
RE :93% chance mom believes in "Hope" and "Change", though.

No doubt, see : #24

27 posted on 01/29/2014 7:11:02 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Hey, Slick Willie, the first black president (and serial rapist) who had a white mother and a white sperm donor.


28 posted on 01/29/2014 7:12:59 AM PST by twister881
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To: MNDude
How could this happen at SCHOOL, she asks??!!. . .at SCHOOL??!!

Hey lady. . .gubment schools today are nothing more than the AAA farm league for the state penitentiary

29 posted on 01/29/2014 7:14:47 AM PST by McBuff
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To: MNDude

I wonder who was Black, and who was white. A logical question.


30 posted on 01/29/2014 7:15:33 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: P-Marlowe

“I’m going to assume the little girl was white and the perps were all black.”

You didn’t watch the video ...


31 posted on 01/29/2014 7:15:58 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: MNGal
???? What the heck! Where were all the teachers?

The story says 75 students were being supervised by "only" 5 teachers. Evidently these teachers are not competent to look after 15 7-year-old children each...

32 posted on 01/29/2014 7:16:44 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: sickoflibs

This is what we have inherited in the name of equality. I know that sounds stark, but there is no other way to describe it. That is not a racial knee jerk observation by any stretch. Our public accommodations have been an open invitation to this kind of behavior over almost fifty years of social experimentation. No corporal punishment, no penalty for anti social behavior of any kind.

I know that area very well. Nearby Oxon Hill was a very liveable community in the early sixties when my lounger brother lived there, as well as any number of other young employees of the FBI. Getting there from downtown D. C., however, was not so trouble free.


33 posted on 01/29/2014 7:19:54 AM PST by billhilly (Has Pelosi read it yet?)
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To: FReepers

The Wolves Are Here America! What Will You Do?

Donate To Free Republic

34 posted on 01/29/2014 7:19:56 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: MNDude

PG County public schools are generally among the worst public schools. It’s a shame that children are forced into these concentration camps. District Heights is among the worst areas in PG County. I spent three years in PG County public schools, when they weren’t even 10% as bad. Nonetheless, to avoid injury or death, I had to leave.

That being said, at the same time the county runs the concentration camps for most of their students, the county actually has some decent magnet programs that are competitive with many of the regional private schools.


35 posted on 01/29/2014 7:20:33 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: ccmay

Libs will claim this as proof public schools are underfunded and need more teacher raises and smaller classes.


36 posted on 01/29/2014 7:21:20 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: MNGal

Talking on their Phersephones.


37 posted on 01/29/2014 7:22:05 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: MNDude

Just another day in the indoctrination camps aka public school. I strongly encourage everyone with school-age children to home school them or send them to private/parochial schools. If these options are not possible, then be proactively involved with your children’s schools and especially their teachers.


38 posted on 01/29/2014 7:23:21 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: ccmay

75 7 year olds “crammed” in a gym, supervised by “only” 5 teachers. Probably the 5 teachers talking to each other with 75 kids running wild with no supervision.


39 posted on 01/29/2014 7:26:58 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: ccmay

“75 students were being supervised by “only” 5 teachers.”

Clearly it’s the school’s fault.


40 posted on 01/29/2014 7:33:06 AM PST by MNDude
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