- The following was received from a solid source. The names
and location have been omitted. This is another of the countless examples
of the results of a media-shaped 'culture' of violence and aggression,
and the breakdown of normal boundaries of social behavior and respect
for structure and authority. Our young people continually watch, listen
to and learn these behaviors on television and in theaters...and all too
often their parents reinforce them. - ed
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- Incident #1
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- I don't know if I told you about the ruckus at one of
our home basketball games in early February.
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- As you know, we have a small town here. We were playing
against an even smaller town. (Both schools are consolidated, but are still
small.)
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- The opposing team's crowd started to get rather unruly,
so one of our town cops went to sit among them in the stands. # 31 on their
team started to actully pick up our players and slam them to the floor,
so of course he got 3 technical fouls the last quarter and was removed
from the game.
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- With 2 minutes to go, we were ahead and one of their
players got a traveling call. As the ref was walking down the court a lady
in their section threw a water battle at him. The ref turned and told her
to leave. She wouldn't and then her daughter started to cuss out the ref.
Our principal then went over and escorted them both out of the gym.
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- As they were leaving, another fan of theirs threw a water
bottle at the Principal, but hit the girl who threw the bottle in the first
place. Then two more kids stood up and cussed out the ref. At that point
our town cop started down the bleachers to tell the one kid to leave. The
boy threatened our cop...and our cop reached out to take him
by the shoulder to remove him and the kid shoved him down on his back and
jumped on him. Then player # 31 ran up and punched our cop in the eye 3
times and was kicking at him as they pulled him off. Finally, they were
able to remove the two kids from the stands and sent player # 31 to the
locker room. (We finished the game and won)
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- My son-in-law and the boyfriend of one of the cheerleaders,
who was back from Iraq, went outside on a hunch and sure enough the two
kids from the bleachers jumped our cop again as he was leaving the gym.
The boyfriend and my son-in-law grabbed them and held them down until other
cops arrived.
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- My daughter had the whole thing on video, as did 3 other
people and the school which tapes all of the games. She was asked to send
a copy to our school and our police department, and to their school and
their police Dept. It sounds like, with the videos, they will be charging
4 of their people in the incident. The kicker is that # 31 on their team
was their star player and was already wanted in ..... for a Felony. Rumor
had it he pulled a knife on a cop there.
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- One of our cops went to training and saw one of their
cops. Their cop told him that their community and their police force there
was 100% behind us. # 31, a senior, dropped out of shcool the next week.
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- Incident # 2
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- Earlier this week, a 6th grade kid was acting up in the
school bus line. We have a driver who is an older woman that all of the
kids really like, as well as the parents. She told the kid to staighten
up and get into line. He looked at her and said, "F - - K You!"
She said, "What did you just say?" and he said, "I said
F--K you Bi--ch!". In response, the driver just put her hand on his
cheek and pushed a little to scare him. Now she has been fired from the
school and the parents of the kid are sueing her.
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- The whole student body signed a petition to let her keep
her job...and the school tore it up in front of them! I now have a petition
in the store and there are several all over town trying to help her.
- In my day, if I'd had said something like that, they
would still be looking for my body.
- We had a Superintendant when I was in school who used
to box. He was in his upper sixties, short and bald. There was a kid in
my sister's class who was around 6' 3", 280 lbs. He got sent to the
principal's office for bad behavior. He smarted off to the Principal and
was then sent to the Superintendant. He mouthed off to the Superintendant
and the Superintendant jerked the kid's arm up behind his back and literally
broke the kid's arm. Then the kid was made to call his father and tell
him what had happened. The father then smacked the living tar out of the
kid.
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- Whenever I got in trouble at school, I got in trouble
at home, too. I can't believe the school is doing this to that
poor woman bus driver.
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- Comment
- Mary Sparrowdancer
3-2-7
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- I hope this isn't taken as a suggestion that we return
to the earlier days where superintendents and teachers were just allowed
to do whatever they wanted to kids. I also attended a school where
the superintendent used to be a boxer. One day in the cafeteria, as
I was standing in line to buy lunch, I was apparently not standing closely
enough to the wall. I'm not sure, actually, what I was doing wrong
as it was never explained to me. The boxer came up to me from
behind and without warning or comment, slugged me in the upper arm so hard,
he knocked me to my knees - but it's not very difficult
to take down a 70-pound girl who resembles a twig. After I went home
with massive bruises, my father then went to the school and verbally
instilled some common sense and respect into the boxer. (Dad was
good with his words that way.) We need more common sense and respect
in this country. The pendulum has taken a wide and wild ride into
the extreme opposite of what some of us experienced as kids.
Extremes are never good.
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