If you are being bullied, or have been bullied, you are entitled to the greatest of sympathy and support. But there is a scenario where bullying doesn’t entitle you to the least bit of sympathy. People who take out their hardships on others by shooting them in cold blood deserve no sympathy for their actions.
I’m sick of bullying used as an excuse for evil and repulsive behaviour:
A student reportedly entered the school cafeteria and shot another student in the back by firing at random, according to WJZ-TV. Students report that teachers tackled the suspect, and an estimated 200 students were in the cafeteria at the time. One student was shot and has been flown to a hospital for treatment.
One Facebook page that is being passed around as belonging to the suspect bias this last update: “First day of school, last day of my life. t(~_~t), f— the world.”
Police say three men who broke into a Fremont house were nabbed after kids hiding in an upstairs closet called 911.
NBC Bay Area reports that police arrested 18-year-old Kenneth Denson; 25-year-old Demarkus Benavides and 18-year-old Marvin Matthews Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime, first-degree robbery and other charges.
Fremont police said a 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother saw three men break into their home and locked themselves in an upstairs closet and called 911.
The suspects heard the kids, police said, and banged on the closet door and ordered them to come out.
Officers arrived shortly thereafter and the suspects fled on foot. Police found a car with stolen property at the scene.
Police have requested that high schools install locked gun safes just in case a shooter appears on campus:
Plainfield Police asked the district to install locked gun safes to keep a rifle and important information at several schools in the event there’s a shooter on campus, according to Plainfield School District 202.
The safe could include a “long gun, such as an AR 15 rifle,” according to the request, and would be stored in the offices of school police officers, who would be the only ones with access.
The request was made for Plainfield Central Campus, Plainfield East, Plainfield North and Plainfield Academy. Plainfield South High School will not be included.
“Unfortunately, in today’s society active shooter incidents are no longer something we see on TV,” Police Chief John Konopek said in a statement. “They are reality.”
A STRAIGHT-A student in the US has reportedly been denied her high school diploma for saying the word “hell” in her valedictory speech.
Kaitlin Nootbaar graduated from Oklahoma’s Prague High School back in May of this year and was named valedictorian.
In her graduating speech which was inspired by the film Eclipse: The Twilight Saga, she accidentally said the word “hell” instead of “heck”- a move which her father claims has cost her dearly.
“Her quote was, when she first started school she wanted to be a nurse, then a veterinarian and now that she was getting closer to graduation people would ask her what do you want to do and she said ‘How the h*** do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many times,” David Nootbaar told local TV station KFor.
The audience laughed and she was given a round of applause at the end of her speech. But when she went to pick up her high school diploma this week, she was told by the principal she will not get in until she writes a letter of apology.
Her father is furious with the school and said administrators have no legal right to refuse to release the diploma as his daughter was a straight-A student.
For those parents that thought Facebook was a headache – it get’s worse!
After changing its name, MeetMe.com has become one of the top 20 most visited websites in the country. “It’s basically something you go on when you’re bored,” Shelbi said.MeetMe.com is offered as a website or mobile app.It’s kind of like Facebook or MySpace, but with a twist. When you log on, it lists people who are online and uses GPS to show who’s nearby and how far they are away.According to the website, you have to be 13 years old to sign up.
“There’s probably 1,000 kids on there, and there’s only one thing on their mind,” Spagnoletti said. Browse through the MeetMe profiles, and it’s clear to see what he means. The site contains profile after profile of people in provocative clothing and poses. However, a MeetMe spokesperson said the site’s main purpose is not for dating. The spokesperson also said that the website has had difficulty in the past verifying the age of some of its users and that there is the possibility of abuse.
Talk about a lot of hot air. So what if a school uses a scanner to serve children with greater efficiency. Big deal! Honestly, sometimes parents complain for the sake of complaining:
Moss Bluff Elementary School in Louisiana is looking to streamline lunch payments by implementing a palm vein scanner program, but some parents aren’t pleased.
While the letter notes that parents can opt their children out of the program, parent Mamie Sonnier told KPLC-TV that she was angry and disappointed by the program, as the scanner violates her beliefs. She contends that if the scanners actually make it to the school cafeteria, she’ll be transferring her kids to another school.
Calderara notes that it’s just “technology that is used throughout our lives. Everywhere.”
Florida’s Pinellas Schools were the first to adopt palm scanning technology to pay for lunch last fall under a voluntary program. The technology uses infrared light to read unique vein patterns connected to meal plans.
Target and other stores may try and avoid responsibility for stocking some very inappropriate children’s garments but they must accept their fair share of blame. Yes it’s true that in the end it is the parent that makes the decision to buy these clothes, but that doesn’t mean that these stores should get away with putting profits over integrity.
AUSSIE parents have criticised Target Australia for selling “hooker-style” clothes to young girls.
The last 16 hours have seen a flurry of comments posted on the department store’s Facebook page from parents baulking about the department stores’ fashion range for this age group.
It all started after Port Macquarie mum, and primary school teacher Ana Amini posted that she was not prepared to shop at Target again because it was selling clothes that made young girls “look like tramps”.
“You have lost me as a customer when buying apparel for my daughter as I don’t want her thinking shorts up her backside are the norm or fashionable,” Ms Amini posted.
Unfortunately, Ms Amini’s original post has mysteriously disappeared from the Facebook page. It was replaced last night with a response from Target Australia, inviting all their customers to provide feedback on its childrenswear range.
“We know there is a huge diversity of opinion when it comes to children’s clothing which is why we believe in taking great care in ensuring that our range is both age appropriate and something that your kids will love.”
Schools need to decide what they represent. Are they merely a place for learning or are they also a place where students can feel safe and secure. If the latter is true, schools must do everything in their power to protect their students, regardless of whether the fight is online, offline, on school property or in the local mall.
In reviewing its existing bullying and cyber bullying policies during Monday night’s meeting, administrators and school board members discussed what role the district should play in cyber bullying, particularly when purported bullying takes place out of school.
“I don’t think we need to be the police and the DA’s office for everybody,” board member Louis Polaneczky said. “Have we done enough to exclude things that really aren’t our jurisdiction?”
Virgin Australia has been accused of treating male passengers like paedophiles after it made a man swap seats because he was beside two unaccompanied minors.
The company has defended the policy as in the interests of children.
Sydney fireman Johnny McGirr, 33, said he was flying home from Brisbane in April when he took his seat next to two boys he estimated to be between 8 and 10 years old.
He was assigned the window seat but sat in the aisle seat so the two boys could look out the window.
However, a flight attendant approached him just as passengers were asked to put on their seatbelts, asking him to move.
Mr McGirr said when he asked why, he was told, “Well you can’t sit next to two unaccompanied minors.”
“She said it was the policy and I said, ‘Well, that’s pretty sexist and discriminatory. You can’t just say because I’m a man I can’t sit there,’ and she just apologised and said that was the policy.
“By this stage everyone around me had started looking.”
Mr McGirr said the attendant then asked a fellow female passenger, “Can you please sit in this seat because he is not allowed to sit next to minors.”
“After that I got really embarrassed because she didn’t even explain. I just got up and shook my head a little, trying to get some dignity out of the situation,” he said.
This video shows a student bystander who chooses to walk past a janitor who had taken a nasty fall. I am very disappointed to see this kind of behaviour.
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