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Second Graders Spend Recess Protesting Ferguson
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The New Bedford, MA children chanted “Honk if you want justice.” to bemused onlookers.
They were second graders, rallying against police for the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. While the rest of their class enjoyed 11:30 recess that morning, these 7 and 8-year-old protesters stood by the side of the road in front of the Alma Del Mar Charter School holding signs including one that read, “Please don’t shoot me, Ferguson.”
While the students were eager to get involved in the cause, not all of their parents were so thrilled.
George Borden, the father of one participant and a policeman in New Bedford, told WHDH that discovering his 7-year-old had participated in the protest and finding a flyer in her backpack urging people to join a weekend protest “against the unjust systems that allow police officers to kill Black men and boys with impunity,” was “horrific to me.” He says he only learned about the protest after a friend saw it and called him…
Yet Will Gardner, the school’s founder and executive director, stands by the school’s decision to let the kids protest, saying it was allowed as part of lesson in civics. Gardner told The Boston Globe that the class’s teacher had sent a note home with her students Dec. 10 alerting parents that the class would be discussing diversity and “issues covered by the media,” and offering kids an opt-out of the talks if parents so chose. The protest “wasn’t something the teacher planned,” he said. “It was something the kids did.”
This isn't discussed in this particular story, but I believe I read in another article one of the second graders father is a LEO and after his child returned home from school the child asked the father if he shot people.
What is going on in our society and in our schools when such a large percentage of our lawmakers and educators are seemingly advocating what I equate to the abandonment of a civil society? Even if the percentage is smaller than I suspect, there shouldn't be ANY (fantasy I know, I get it). i understand politians pandering to their constituents and doing what they can to retain/increase their power, but it seems to have gone far beyond that. Fortunately I work in a community that is overall very supportive of my department, but there is an undeniable degradation of the respect for the rule of law and those that enforce it.
So, back to the title of this thread. In general terms, help me understand what the upside is to the undermining of our laws and law enforcers. I've been a LEO for going on 18 years. I get the whole "sheep and wolves not liking the sheepdog" thing, but what I suspect is going on is more insidious. I mean what do "they" think is going to happen if there were no LEOs on the streets (or neutered to such a degree we become obsolete). But then again, maybe my tin foil hat is on too tight and I should just go to bed...
Second Graders Spend Recess Protesting Ferguson
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The New Bedford, MA children chanted “Honk if you want justice.” to bemused onlookers.
They were second graders, rallying against police for the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. While the rest of their class enjoyed 11:30 recess that morning, these 7 and 8-year-old protesters stood by the side of the road in front of the Alma Del Mar Charter School holding signs including one that read, “Please don’t shoot me, Ferguson.”
While the students were eager to get involved in the cause, not all of their parents were so thrilled.
George Borden, the father of one participant and a policeman in New Bedford, told WHDH that discovering his 7-year-old had participated in the protest and finding a flyer in her backpack urging people to join a weekend protest “against the unjust systems that allow police officers to kill Black men and boys with impunity,” was “horrific to me.” He says he only learned about the protest after a friend saw it and called him…
Yet Will Gardner, the school’s founder and executive director, stands by the school’s decision to let the kids protest, saying it was allowed as part of lesson in civics. Gardner told The Boston Globe that the class’s teacher had sent a note home with her students Dec. 10 alerting parents that the class would be discussing diversity and “issues covered by the media,” and offering kids an opt-out of the talks if parents so chose. The protest “wasn’t something the teacher planned,” he said. “It was something the kids did.”
This isn't discussed in this particular story, but I believe I read in another article one of the second graders father is a LEO and after his child returned home from school the child asked the father if he shot people.
What is going on in our society and in our schools when such a large percentage of our lawmakers and educators are seemingly advocating what I equate to the abandonment of a civil society? Even if the percentage is smaller than I suspect, there shouldn't be ANY (fantasy I know, I get it). i understand politians pandering to their constituents and doing what they can to retain/increase their power, but it seems to have gone far beyond that. Fortunately I work in a community that is overall very supportive of my department, but there is an undeniable degradation of the respect for the rule of law and those that enforce it.
So, back to the title of this thread. In general terms, help me understand what the upside is to the undermining of our laws and law enforcers. I've been a LEO for going on 18 years. I get the whole "sheep and wolves not liking the sheepdog" thing, but what I suspect is going on is more insidious. I mean what do "they" think is going to happen if there were no LEOs on the streets (or neutered to such a degree we become obsolete). But then again, maybe my tin foil hat is on too tight and I should just go to bed...
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