http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages...n=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 It's a video report, but the long and the short of it is an 8th grade girl catches a beating by a mob for saying illegals are shit. And the school didn't call her folks after beating either. But wait, there's more! http://www.athensreview.com/local/local_story_098232401.html?keyword=topstory Just beating 8th grade girls Americans don't want to beat.
The teacher is criminally incompetent. How could you make an assignment like that and not expect repercussions such as this incident? There are other ways to encourage civil awareness and participation in our students other than to make them tote around large protests signs concerning controversial issues. This incident could have been much worse, especially if it had occured outsie of the school. This teacher should be punished, as well as the students who are personally responsible. The principal should be removed for barring the girl from contacting her parents. Doesn't that open the school district and the principal up to a lawsuit?
Well, she definitely grossly exaggerated the story, so yeah. Sounds like she was confronted by one or two students, and she may have been hit, but she certainly wasn't beaten up by 21 students. She's going to end up in at least as much trouble as anyone who might have hit her, and rightly so.
This is disgusting, but it is also nothing new. One of the common things that comes up in many of these school shootings is that those who commit the shootings tend to feel as if they are not listened to by the school faculty, counselors, and administration. Several years back the United States Secret Service conducted a study on the school shootings, even going so far as to interview some of these people who are currently serving time in prison for their acts. The one thing that was almost universal in each of these interviews was that these kids felt as if the school ignored their concerns when they attempted to follow the schools established channels for bringing problems to their attention. So, it is not surprising to me that this type of situation would be any different.
what did she hope to gain by being a victim of an attack? she went through great lengths (i.e. hurting herself) to fake this and that shows that at least she knew what she was doin.
Getting the illegal immigrants (or the spanish kids in general) in trouble? Turning herself into a hero?
maybe i was sheltered or naive as an 8th grader, but i wouldn't know what she was protesting against as her classmate. i would think of it as more of an attack on my fellow classmates at this point i'm playing devil's advocate, but i really do wonder what her motives were. this is a pretty hot political topic and i can't see an 8th grader having the depth to fiddle with the issue, much less be informed enough to have an outspoken opinion. based on the parent's responses (which could or could not be genuine) it doesn't seem like she had too much influence from home to act this way.
