A fifth-grader reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained.
Sounds like a little overachiever who is pretty mature for his age, up against a Karen principal who is annoyed by the kid instead of encouraging him.
Yes. This is heartbreaking.
Timothy says that because of his father, he wants to be an oncologist when he grows up, although his mom laughs about how everyone else thinks her son should be a lawyer since he likes to argue so much. His father taught him how to speak up and advocate for himself.
Wants to be an oncologist because his father died from blood cancer… So tragic.
Even worse than that really. She’s a principal who should’ve been fired, but instead they swapped her and the counselor from her school with the one in this one. Yes, drag the overperforming school down instead of outright replacing the staff of the underperforming one. brilliant move.
He asked her on day one where the old counselor was and she took that as an insult (because she knows she’s shit) instead of a genuine question like an 11yo would have because what fuckin 11yo, no matter how gifted, is tracking the staff moves of their school district?!
“Gee, I wonder why kids these days don’t trust law enforcement!”
Uhhh, this wasn’t just the principal. Thankfully the judge had some common sense.
Cameron County prosecutors pushed for Class C felony charges of “terroristic threat” and argued for two more weeks of detention. Instead, Judge Adela Kowalski-Garza ordered a safety risk evaluation and conditional release home until his hearing November 8.
This is horrifying. I know abuse of power is nothing new, especially in education and law enforcement, but people find new lows every day it seems. I’m glad others were there to step up and help.
It sounds like the individual responsible, Palm Grove Elementary School Principal Myrta Garza could still be a threat to additional students though. I know it’s Texas but there has to be some group there that can investigate this individual.
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What, exactly, makes the site “propaganda”? It leans left, but they make no bones about that and are open that they are a progressive-leaning news site.
I’m sorry but that Principal is an absolute cunt. She was targeting that kid, regardless if he did or didn’t do anything wrong…
Every monster who participated in putting an 11 year old in police solitary confinement should not keep their job and should face lawsuits.
Cameron County prosecutors pushed for Class C felony charges of “terroristic threat” and argued for two more weeks of detention.
Every authoritarian here is a power-tripping coward. Abusing a prepubescent child because they didn’t get the respect they demanded is the weakest and most craven thing someone can do.
Put this principal behind bars for child abuse. And take the police and everyone involved on that side along, too. They would make a nice chain gang.
If you in America ig you can sue her for random shit. She’ll lose money, that a principle doesn’t have, in lawyers.
Do it
Uh. I could have sworn Delores Umbridge was supposed to be short…
11 years old. Lost his father, bullied by his principal, abandoned by the school district therapists, falsely arrested by the police and tortured for three days by the state.
If this kid manages to grow up to be a functional adult, it will be miracle.
It’s kind of amazing that we don’t hear more stories of abused ex-students retaliating against specific teachers and administrators when the kids get older.
When I was in high school, many decades ago, we had an 11th grade teacher who treated students like shit—and took a kind of delight in her cruelty. A year after having her, a group of six seniors broke into her car, late on a Saturday night, and totaled it by destroying every bit of the interior, dash, stick shift column, and windows. It was a testament to how despised she was that it was pretty well known who had done it, but no one ever ratted them out.
More of this story please? I love it
The smart ones tend to realize karma exists and skip town before too long.
There was no evidence he made any kind of threat against the principal other than heresay by other students?
What the hell.
That principal is an insecure power tripping loser.
This happens all the time
Some rich girl with lawyer parents accused me of making a death threat. I was suspended for a day.
Schools don’t give a shit, they are so damn paranoid that any accusation is true and any mention of the word “gun” or “knife” is immediately disciplined.
Sometimes I feel like it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. The stereotypical weird quiet kid gets bullied for being a “school shooter”, the school either disciplines him or treats him like one (checking their bag every morning and snooping through their phone and online activity) and the kid is totally isolated because there’s zero sympathy for him. Everyone bullies him and the school treats him as a threat. You can only pressure a being so much before they lash out.
I would know cause that was pretty much me until I dropped out.
Yeah, it was me too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory
So they tortured a child.
Well, it was not a fetus anymore…
So why is that bitch of a principal not dead or in jail yet?
The contact info for the district’s internal audit:
The lesson here is not to question authority or you’ll get arrested and locked up.
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I’ve just had a quick look at the front page and it seems pretty normal for a smaller independent paper?
Nothing outrageous or tabloidesque that I saw?
It’s not a tabloid site, so I don’t know what you’re so irritated about?
There were articles criticizing Abbott and the draconian abortion laws, as well as promoting climate change acknowledgement from my quick view of their front page.
That’s probably what’s infuriating the OP.
Ahh, that would explain it.
That’s such a weird and Lemmy thing to say.
Where is the evidence? Just because it’s liberal doesn’t mean you should believe it.
The rest of that site is complete propaganda.
Please point out the propaganda. Be specific.
