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Teen Beaten So Badly His Nose Detached From HIs Face. Classmates Allegedly Cheered.
April 2, 2014 at
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The video of the kid getting punched is sooo hard to watch.
If this were my child, I would sue the school, the parents of the kid that hit him, AND the kids that cheered.
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The video of the kid getting punched is sooo hard to watch.
If this were my child, I would sue the school, the parents of the kid that hit him, AND the kids that cheered.
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Everything is always someone else's fault and they always expect someone else to come in and clean up their messes and save them from the consequences of their own laziness and apathy. The self esteem generation of kids is going to be the downfall of this country because they don't have even the most rudimentary tools to survive in the real world and yet someday they are going to be running things. God help us when that day comes.
And the generation before them said the same thing, too...
And the generation before them said the same thing, too...
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I grew up in rough neighborhoods. We didn't have a lot of money and neither did the kids I went to school with. I remember some lunch money thefts and even the theft of Valentine candy one year, but I don't recall anyone taking a gun to school or school shootings. I went to public schools in the "bad" school districts and only once did I see a student mouth off to a teacher. The result was the basketball coach from the room next door came in and literally snatched him up and drug him to the office, threatening to "knock his dick in the dirt" if he said a word. The kid was suspended, and neither the teacher nor the coach got shanked, shot or beat down by the kid's friends.
Because we didn't have much money, my mom sometimes received public assistance. We three kids went to the food stamp office a handful of times when she had to reapply and she cried the entire time. We NEVER talked about it amongst our friends because there was a huge stigma associated with welfare, food stamps and white label (government) food handouts. You don't see that today. Around here (Mississippi), these young girls, with their second, sometimes third illegimate babies, seem almost proud to be receiving government handouts. There is a very "in-your-face" attitude around here. The mentality seems to be either "I deserve it" or "The government owes me".
And the crime? It's off the charts. And the worse it is, the more humor they seem to find in it. We saw a fight in the parking lot of Walgreens a couple of years ago and the guys standing around were hooping, hollering and filming it. One older black lady starting yelling at them to stop that nonsense and they told her to mind her own business. Kids today talk to their elders like they are stray dogs. When I was a kid, the elder would have beaten my ass and then my parents would have beat my ass.
Kids today see sex on TV and in the movies as no big deal. Bang anyone and everyone, anything goes. That is NOT hippie mentality. I had hippies in my family and they believed in "free love" but they viewed sex as therapeutic as well as fun. A type of healing, if you will. Good for the mind and the body. Kids today view sex as a way to get even, get popular or even just to cure boredom. And they're capturing it all on camera. There are no boundaries anymore.
I could go on and on but it doesn't matter. I absolutely blame parents. I blame schools. And yes, I blame Hollywood and cable TV, too. I watch that show Ridiculousness and I admit, I laugh my butt off, but it would never occur to me to go out and do something stupid and film it just so I could get Youtube views or end up on that show. But my oldest son has friends from high school that have done exactly that. Why? Because of the show.
At the end of the day, the bully in this story needs to take personal responsibilty for what he did to the other kid. He needs to own the injury, the humiliation and the financial aspects of what he did. But it had to start somewhere. Broken home? Drugs? Alcohol? Was he bullied? Or maybe he's just an asshole, they do exist. I'd love to know what made him act out with such viciousness but chances are we will never know. I just hope he's punished to the utmost extent by the school, the courts AND his parent(s). And if grandma gets in there and smacks him around, I'm good with that, too.
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