Texas student attacked for her anti-illegal immigration homework
I don’t know why the hell a teacher is assigning “political protest signs” as homework, but that aside, the open-borders mob reaction to one girl’s project is absolutely unacceptable. Take a look, via KLTV:
Melanie Bowers, 13, and her parents walked into Athens High School Monday afternoon to talk to campus police. They were hoping to get some answers.
“It never should have happened in the first place. The whole assignment was a silly assignment and they should have contacted us immediately after it happened,” said J.R. Bowers, Melanie’s father.
It was an assignment for history class–to make a protest sign for or against an issue, and Melanie said she chose illegal immigration. Her sign read, “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration.” Somehow, Melanie said the sign got passed around lunch and angered a group of Latino students.
“I didn’t know any of these people,” she said. One young [student], she claimed, jumped on her back and he put her in a choke hold. “We have brick walls in the middle school and he slammed my face on the bricks.”
Melanie said a group of boys also threatened to rape and kill her. Eventually, the boys let her go and when she went for help, she was ordered back to class, and told she could not call her parents, she said.
“They handled this wrong, you know, they put a child back in danger,” said J.R. Bowers. “It was a very racially motivated crime.”
Apparently, there is video of the attack:
Athens ISD gave KLTV 7 a statement, confirming there was a disturbance in the hallway, Friday between two to three students. “We have a camera system in the building,” said Louis DeRosa. “We are collecting other information and statements from witnesses and this is all the information we have at this time,” he said.
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If those mexican kids have illegal parents here and they are babies born here, send them all back. This is where there needs to be change. Remind these ‘illegals’ that we appreciate our Constitution and if they want any of what we have they need to do it right.
I am not surprised about this. There are a great many of left wing teachers out there. However, this is an absolute disgrace.
Reason #12,875,096,224,110,453 to educate your children at home.
– or –
If you love your children, teach them at home where they won’t be jumped by an angry mob.
It sounds to me like the Bowers have a felony and hate crime case.
Any lawyers out there?
I’m sure the tape will be as conclusive as the one in the Columbia noose scandal, if we are to believe the authorities…
The pc crowd in Texas will get this and blame the 13 year old “typical white girl”.
I am sick of this sh#t happening to our country!
The silent majority who defend and respect our nation are constantly mischaracterized as if they are the problem.
I am disgusted by the 3 stooges left in the race for chief moron of our country.
I think certain school administration types as well as certain teachers need to be introduced to the joys of making little rocks out of big ones.
This girl was threatened and assaulted and these pinheads did nothing? As far as I’m concerened, they are guilty of aiding and abetting, and possibly also civil rights violations.
If a few of these lefty morons get locked up for serious terms, the rest m,ight get a clue.
Then again, they are morons.
In Prince William county in Virginia, the Board of Supervisors have taken very strong steps to stop the abuse of illegal immigration. The force behind these steps was county citizens tired of the costs and abuses being forced on them by the illegal aliens. The impact has been dramatic in the areas of education, public transportation, public housing, welfare services, and crime. The illegal alien infrastructure in the USA is well established to take advantage of the loop holes in our laws and policies.
If you want to stop the illegal alien problem, start with a group of citizens and lodge complaints with your public officials. You will be branded a racist, but that is always the approach of the left-wing and it is now something that most clear thinking people understand is the price for trying to regain control of the country of the USA.
Rooster, I too am tired of what is happening to my country. Illegal immigrants will never get any respect this way, just more in favor of deporting them NOW. I also wish there were another option for POTUS. . .don’t like any of them. . .
ACHefty -you are so right on.
25+ years ago - having taught in the public schools for 10 years (with some extremely fine teachers) - as a certified teacher - I saw what was coming and chose to homeschool.
To be honest-I did not see how BAD it was really going to be for our young people.
Another macho latino takes down a girl from behind.
Useless punks.
It really concerns me when a group resorts to threats and violence when they see something they don’t like. These are middle school kids - threatening to rape and kill her? This is a real threat - the school needs to do something about this and suspend those kids. I would be outraged if my daughter told me this happened to her and I would be preparing for a lawsuit.
The silent majority who defend and respect our nation are constantly mischaracterized as if they are the problem.
Rooster, I believe it is about time that the “Silent Majority” start speaking up. We’ve been silent too long.
We’ve allowed the “Vocal Minority” to intimidate us.
Anyone who has ever pissed off Mexican nationals (BB’s, borderbrothers) knows that there is a good chance they will come after you after dark with a carload of buddies, fair warning. Its sop, sorry pcmc’s but that’s the way the tortilla crumbles. Attacking whitey is dangerous unless you have a ten to one advantage that’s how I see it anyway. We hear John McCain say they want to be citizens… really? What’s with all the Mexican flags then? No, they all love dear old Mexico that’s why when people ask, why don’t they fix their country down there I think, why would they do that they like it just the way that it is isn’t that obvious? I’ll tell ya the NVA might have really beat his brains out.
This is what happens when you pack the schools with leftists, multiculturalists, and anchor babies. If they told me not to tell my parents, I would be back pronto with not only my parents but a lawyer too. How dare they?
Another good reason to homeschool.
# 8, I’m also in PWC and my friend who is an AP at a school in Fairfax was telling me that they’re getting many of the illegals at her school. Another friend of ours (we all went to grad school together) said that in MD, they’re getting them there too. She is a second grade teacher and she just got 3 non-English speakers last week.
I hope justice prevails and those who attacked her get punished severely. And maybe deported. Perfect. Jerks.
If this can be confirmed, it goes without saying that the assaulting students should be, at the very least, suspended. And no matter what happened, the school should have treated these accusations more seriously.
By the by, I think the assignment itself is a good one. It teaches children to state and defend their beliefs and it encourages a more activist youth. It’s like a younger version of having to write a political persuasive essay and read it to class.
Our “educators” have been teaching brown and black children for decades that white people, collectively, “owe them” something.
Now those children want to cash-out! Who can blame them? It’s a lot easier to indoctrinate children with hatred for their national heritage than it is to actually teach them to think.
God forbid, what if a student ever asks why today’s white people hold a collective responsibility for crimes against blacks, for slavery, which happened 150 years ago. Yet today’s black people hold NO responsibility for crimes against whites, for the one-hundred white women they rape EACH DAY here in America alone? Why so bass-ackward?
Why should whites hide their heritage, while browns and blacks get their “History Months” and TV channels? In areas where non-whites excell, it’s because of their skill, but in areas where whites excell, it’s because of RACISM!
Anyone else tired of the scam?
#15 On April 8th, 2008 at 12:13 pm, greenfairie said:
“This is what happens when you pack the schools with leftists, multiculturalists, and anchor babies. If they told me not to tell my parents, I would be back pronto with not only my parents but a lawyer too. How dare they?
Another good reason to homeschool.”
Yep.
But, much more than that.
Another goosd reason to break the back of the teachers’ unions, regain control over our public schools; and to reduce the heavy tax burden imposed upon us by the tag-team of the teachers’ unions and the government-contolled-funded-by-inexorably-increasing-taxes public schools.
Sorry, no elegant way to say that.
This girl needs detention, extra-homework, and suspension. She missed the purpose of this assignment.
When given an task to make a ‘protest sign’ one should chose the issues of today; Bush, housing, evil $ lenders, SUVs, W, too big a carbon footprint, the war, Bush, oil companies.
She obviously needs more sensitivity training, she needs to celebrate diversity at a higher level, and the latest ‘buzz class’ in corporate USA - REIT training -
Now I feel justified with insisting my daughter (she’ll be 13 next month) takes her cell phone to school. She would have had no problem going into the locker room or bathroom to call me.
I am so glad we live in a very small conservative Texas town.
I can not believe there is a school administrator anywhere that would not have immediately called her parents. The school should be held liable.
The Latino students should actually agree with the accuracy of the sign. They obviously don’t love this country, so they can support illegal immigration.
If I were her father, I would be celebrating and congratulating her and not whining about the assignment.
Her next sign should read, “save our nation and deport latino illegal alien punk students first”, or “end the anchor baby rule”.
#20, the only hope the public schools have is breaking the teachers unions, but good luck with that.
They can keep their Hitler youth activist indoctrination or they will see us in court. We don’t send our kids to school to be molded into what the leftist’s desire. They ought all be perp walked for abusing our children, let them eat…bubba. These leftists are monsters, abortionists, kiddie pron enthusiasts, you name it, they would like to see the schools turned in to brothels. Keep your perverted hands off our kids we don’t want them to end up as adults bombing recruiting offices setting fire to their neighbor’s houses, throwing acid on people you know, typical leftist behavior. I would like to see the teachers union in a class action lawsuit, sue them for producing a hostile and unsafe learning environment. I knew that the lies that have been told would eventually have consequences. The leftist media, wackademia and democrats in general have succeeded in bringing the rev Wrights philosophy in to the public schools and they need to be held accountable.
Sue!
I know we are a very litigious society; however, this is absolutely unacceptable behavior on the part of principal and teacher. This child was assaulted at school and the adults thought it best for her to return to class. They did not contact her parents and informed her not to do so either. Sue the pants off of them.
And those children who attacked her should be expelled.
Hmmmm, me thinks this might just be the one that sets it off…
“Remember Athens!”
In any other circumstance, high school males jumping a female and threatening to rape her would bring protests against the perpetrators; candlelight vigils by feminist groups; calls for sensitivity training for the school authorities from some quarters, their firing from others; immediate expulsion for the men and arrests following soon after.
But the girl was white, the perps were Latinos and the issue was “undocumented workers.” Ethnic sensitivity always trumps gender sensitivity in the victimization game.
What a world we’re making for ourselves and our descendants.
Being TX, hopefully these perps will be punished to the full extent of the law.
I’m glad the article acknowledges the attack on the girl as a “racially motivated crome”; usually they just say that when a white is the perpetrator.
Oops, I meant “crime.”
I’m surprised some idiot school official hasn’t accused the girl of a hate crime for making the sign.
If this is accurate and the girl was told not to contact her parents after she was assaulted and battered in the hallway, the school and it’s administrators are in deep doodie. I can only imagine what would have happened if this had been my daughter. Civil rights violation? Hate crime? Yeah, it’s all there.
Its only a racially motivated crime because the victim was a white female.
If she had been a white male, then this wouldn’t have been a blip on the radar screen. Trolls if you think this is harsh-remember the Jena 6 and Justin Barker before flaming me.
GSP
I’m a public high school social studies teacher in Texas, and there were two things in that story that puzzled me as I read it from my educator’s perspective.
1. I’d love to know for what course the assignment was given, because as a 13-yr-old student, she should be a freshman. Freshmen in Texas take either World History or World Geography. At this point in the year, she should be learning about absolutism in World History or East Asia in geography. I hardly see the relevance of the assignment from a social studies standpoint, based on the course to which she should be assigned.
2. We have our state testing, the TAKS test, in three weeks. If the class is a core class, she should be spending class time reviewing. If it’s an elective, those teachers know students need to be focused on their testing and aren’t assigning random projects.
Congratulations to the Bowers on becoming the newest multi-millionaires courtesy of the Ultra Liberal, Fascist Public Education Lottery!!!**
**brought to you by the American tax payer.
I’m not being a troll, just clarifying things people may not know about the school system if they don’t live in Texas.
I don’t think the problem in the story is the assignment. She wasn’t given a failing grade for it and she wasn’t belittled by the teacher in class. The issue here is a couple of out-of-control boys who need to be punished for their behavior.
Teacher’s unions do not exist in Texas. True, we do have teacher’s organizations, such as TCTA, of which I’m a member, but unions do not negotiate our contracts, etc. I have seen teachers at every school I’ve worked at be fired for things from poor teaching to inappropriate conduct with a student and everything in between.
My gut says there’s more to this story than the family or media is reporting. I know the Athens school district, and it just seems so out of character for what the family is describing to be the whole story. Athens is as middle-of-America as it gets, and this sort of behavior wouldn’t be tolerated for long.
They’re sending it to Columbia University for analysis…
As US citizens, it is our right and responsibility to fight back against the abuses of the welfare state that we all pay for. The way citizens take action is through the political or legal processes.
Prince William county in Virginia has taken a strong step to stop the erosion of their community by illegal aliens who abuse the designed to help poor and trouble American citizens. Until citizens not only protest but take real steps to stop the corrosive effects of illegal immigration, the situation will get as bad as this one — and probably a lot worse. (Just look at the San Francisco approach to illegal alien lawlessness. You have to wonder when the citizens of that city will get the message that their taxes and their inability to get services is directly related to the invasion of illegals. San Fran just strikes me as a city run by a bunch of drugged out aging hippies with no clue how to survive in a competitive world.)
#15: I regularly go to NOVA and am well aware of the problems with public education. To show just how bad the situation really is, the supposedly wonderful Fairfax county school system can’t pass the SOLs because of the overwhelming number of non-English speaking and reading students. Gangs of Latinos and other races dominate some of the higher levels of the public school system there.)
sunshinerbray,
With all do respect, I was born and raised in North Texas and now live in Dallas, and your argument is silly. Of course the problem was the assignment. Could you please provide one educational benefit of a child being required to make a political protest sign in class. In fact give us any reason this should not be viewed as biased, agenda driven political hackery designed to either cajol ultra liberal thought or ellicit just such violent responses from “out-of-control boys.”
Thanks.
The time has come for another Boston Tea Party
There was a tradtion in the old west. It was called vigilance committees. They were formed by concerned citizens to meet out justice when law enforcement was unwilling or unable. If someone or group threaten my 13 year old daughter, I would elimate the problem. I will do anything to keep my children safe, including prison time.
Ah yes, our right to free speech hard at work, er, for hatemongers and leftists that is.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.
It’s going to take a Civil War to get rid of illegals.
This HAS TO STOP!
Without the tedium of complete sentences, logical thinking, reasoned discourse - oh yeah, public school. Did the signs have to be in English?
You can only be charged with a hate crime if it’s committed against a minority, right? Nice.
Next assignment: bumper stickers.
Actually a 13 year old student would either be a 7th grader or an 8th grader depending on the date she turned 13.
Which is all well and good, so long as the diversity of thought is represented and protected under the First Amendment, which USED to protect the free speech of all and not just the politically correct.
I have no problem with my children having to defend their beliefs because that’s what the First Amendment is all about.
But I find that in public grade schools, high schools, and most universities/colleges that right is being denied to those who hold conservative, religious, or other non-politically-correct points of view. And I won’t tolerate that at all.
Forget suspension; these kids should be expelled. Many good, hardworking students have been kicked out of school for far less severe crimes.
On second thought, we should cut this teacher some slack. Liberal cirriculum and protest signs do have educational value. I mean, come on. The teacher has got to get those kiddos ready for college right?
I’m sure she expected all the signs to read “No Blood For Oil,” “Bring Them Home,” “La Raza,” and whatnot. How could he/she know there was a student who hadn’t drank the Kool-Aide?
Who does this student think she is making a “protest sign” with non-racial overtones that simply supports our FEDERAL LAW? Plus she made it RYME!
The nerve of that girl. She deserved to be threatened with rape & murder. Yes-sir-eee.
I’ve got a question for sunshinerbray or anybody else who can answer this question about Texas. Is there no such thing in your state as “required reporting”? The concept that any abuse of a minor, sexual or otherwise, MUST be reported to the authorities as soon as a teacher (or a caregiver, etc.) becomes aware of it.
It seems to me that physically abusing/attacking this 13-year-old girl while at the same time threatening to rape – not to mention murder – her comes under an abuse category that absolutely with no equivocation should have been reported to the police immediately.
Not reporting such an incident is a CRIME attributable to those who were aware of the incident and failed to call the police.
I’m thinking it’s a case for civil suit against the school and for the DA to bring a criminal charge against the school officials in addition to the attackers. So, does such a required reporting law exist in Texas?
On April 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm, gayle said:
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.
It’s going to take a Civil War to get rid of illegals. This HAS TO STOP!
Yeah, basically… but at least now days wars can be asymmetrical, let’s start with the school.
Uhhh, sue that is…
Rooster, I believe it is about time that the “Silent Majority” start speaking up. We’ve been silent too long.
If Conservatives were really a silent majority, we’d have a different Republican candidate for President now.
If that so-called silent majority exists, it evidently cannot even be bothered to exercise its right and DUTY to vote . . .the most important way to make itself heard.
On April 8th, 2008 at 3:03 pm, SylviaMarie said:
I’m wondering the same thing, SylviaMarie. We have the reporting law in KY, and to disobey it is one of the very few offenses that can lead to contract termination for even tenured certified personnel.
As for the hooligans that attacked that poor girl, they would have been carted off the school grounds in back of a police car where I teach; we’re a zero tolerance school and when a situation warrants it, we have no qualms in sending for law enforcement.
On April 8th, 2008 at 2:30 pm, Mister P said:
Not necessarily. I turned 14 the second semester of 9th grade. I got my share of rape threats and assaults just for my age…
And you know, if the leftists were thinking, they could justify the attack as un-racist with “Yeah, she skipped a grade, and that makes normal students lash out. It’s perfectly normal, and she shouldn’t be acting smart if she doesn’t want to get hit. Shrug.” Voila.
Congratulations!
You are an idiot and further proof that the NEA is lower than whale sh#t.
The story gives the impression that this occurred “in the hallways” … in other words it happened “on school grounds” … which means in any state in the union the school officials were at the time of the incident charged with the safety and well-being of every student on the school grounds … including the girl who was attacked … the local police should have been called due to the violence and the threats of sexual assault and death … these punks should have been hauled off to jail …
I hope these parents break the bank with a major lawsuit … there is no indication of providing any medical care … they refused to notify the girl’s parents … they didn’t call in the local authorities to investigate … I am sure that is only the beginning of the list …
The school principal and other school adminstrative types that refused to take the proper actions need to be fired and should lose their teaching credentials … they have no business being responsible for the lives of the children in this school …
#38, I was talking about the attack being an absolute disgrace and secondly was mentioning there are plenty of left wing teachers in the classroom. I can tell you from experience that it can be very lonely when you’re the only conservative in the social studies department.
It’s coming and it ain’t gonna be purdy.
HATE CRIME!
It depends on what the rules are for a given district. I turned 15 my second semester of high school (I know because the entire cast/crew sang “Happy Birthday” to me at the wrap party).
Exactly. Because if there’s one thing the politically corret hate almost as much as a conservative student (or conservative ideologies in the classroom) is a student who’s genuinely smart. They consider intelligence politically incorrect because it might make someone else feel bad.
Never mind making the intelligent kids role models that the other kids should look up to and emulate - that might mean some kids have to work hard and, well, that’s just unfair!
We left Ffx County (Herndon) 3 years ago. Son #1 had 7 (seven!) native English speakers in his second grade class. For son #2 it was even worse. He has Down’s and was in a special ed kindergarten class where 4/6 of the kids were ESL. Imagine, 5-year-olds with IQs around 60 trying to make sense out of hearing Spanish (or Urdu or whatever) at home and English at school. No wonder the teachers thought our guy was a Down Syndrome genius — he actually understood the teacher.
Yet another story where illegal immigrants must be “accepted” and fit in and you can’t do a darn thing about it. This totally frustrated me as a teacher. The schools can’t ask about kids’ citizenship (I don’t know why) and they’re absolutely terrified of these kids and the Latino gangs that are cropping up in some of the bigger urban/surburban schools.
I would be very scared for my kids if they went to such a school. If a school isn’t protecting every single student, then what are they doing? Why the preferential treatment and lack of reaction by the school? This school let both the student and her family down. Too bad it isn’t an isolated incident.
The only way to deal with this situation is to demand political action. Just squawking on the internet may make you feel good, but it does nothing. To start, contact a local official about the problem. It that doesn’t work try a letter to the editor of the newspaper.
On April 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm, publiuswarmac9999 said:
Agreed. Unless and until right-minded conservatives take an active interest in local politics - beginning by running for election to their local school site-base committees and boards of education - then this stuff is going to keep on happening and will probably only get worse.
Nope, she’s white. Thus no “hate crime” it was a “simple misunderstanding”
/endsarcasm
It would be a very sad day if this happened to my little girl, and I was not notified. I assure you, I would take a trip to speak with the administrator and jail time would most likely follow. I didn’t serve my country just to watch it be taken hostage by ILLEGAL trash. If that statement hurts your feelings, well sucks to be you!
But why on earth would anyone to expect these ILLEGAL leaches to obey the law when they’re constantly being rewarded for breaking it. I always hear this “they just want a better life for their family” crap, well I can guarantee you if I BROKE THE LAW and robbed a bank because I had no money and I was “trying to make a better life for my family” that I’d be in prison faster then I could spit. This has gotten WAY out of hand.
We complain about the war, taxes, the economy, global warming, immigration, but the biggest long term problem for our country is our educational system.
The schools are not failing as we’re often told. They’re working just the way the liberals intended.
Well obviously your situation was not the norm, which is what the original poster is assuming. NORMALLY one enters 1st grade at 6 and high school at 14, so one normally enters 7th grade at 12, and normally becomes 13 during that school term. So based on normal expectations the 13 year old girl was a 7th grader, throwing his whole set of facts into kilter.
Telling you, people; The operative word isn’t quota or amnesty anymore: It’s DEPORTATION. Mass Deportation. How long will people let this fester slide before it’s totally out of control when you lose your votes and culture??
James Greenidge
Queens NY
#64, I have a daughter here in PWC also with Down Syndrome and Autism. She is the only native English person in her class (can’t call her a speaker yet because she doesn’t say a lot) but she did say Se’ when I asked her if she wanted some more pediasure.
A couple of points…
Age in school: Does it even matter? Either the reporter got it wrong or she’s a bit ahead, it has nothing to do with the story.
Not calling parents: Even though my daughter’s school forbids cell phones at school, we make sure our daughter has hers at all times, turned off during class of course. This is the land of Columbine and Platte Canyon. Also, I’ve instructed my kids to call me immediately if a school official or teacher is demanding anything they’re not comfortable with. They not only would have called me, they would have called 911 and reported the assault.
These punks committed a crime, they should have been arrested, not just expelled. These schools have no problem calling the police if two 5-year-olds are kissing, but not for assault?
Well this shows the lies to daylight…
Now what?
I don’t see anything wrong with the assignment, but I do see something wrong with the violent racist reaction. That’s the problem with a lot of Hispanics; they are racist first and patriotic second (or third). If they were patriotic they would be strongly opposed to illegal infiltration.
Not until it’s too late. With no leadership at the top, we’re doomed.
Any chance of getting Duncan Hunter as VP???
Then we can impeach McAmnesty and get a decent POTUS.
My wife comes from a small town in central Oregon that was famous for their vigilante justice during the cattle/sheep wars of the late 19th Century. If this happened in the Ochoco Valley instead of Texas the Juniper Trees would once again bear fruit (see Gale Ontko’s “Thunder Over The Ochoco” Vol. V). The anchor babies are really showing the machismo Mexican males they are by a gang of them jumping a lone girl from behind. How brave of them. Of course the law biding citizens of Texas will probably not give these animals the punishment they deserve, but I agree that the Bowers family has just hit the jackpot in the violation of the civil rights of their daughter by the school’s administrators.
Is it OK If I get Pi$$ed of NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
Our politicians have been bought off by foreign gov’ts, and they no longer give a Rat’s A$$ about Americans.
“With no leadership at the top, we’re doomed.”
Uhhh, bite ankles?
I taught in an elementary school and middle school in the Houston area and am really shocked this incident wasn’t taken more seriously by the school. Violence, threatening and bullying in schools where I taught were taken very seriously. We had 4th graders suspended for making threats. I had a 7th grader carted off and arrested for pulling a pair of scissors and threatening another student with them during a class. (ok - see why I left teaching??)
If this school didn’t take this seriously enough - they are in big trouble.
If, after an incident where a student feels threatened or his/her personal safety is in question, and the school refuses that student the comfort of calling a parent - is that not holding the student hostage? Campus police are about as useful as a t#t on a boar.
Send them straight to the border, do not pass the welfare office, food stamp distribution center, free medicare, and no get out of jail free card.
This “male” who has to choke a female needs an anatomy modification.
#41:
You asked, “Could you please provide one educational benefit of a child being required to make a political protest sign in class?”
Certainly!
From TEKS, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, found at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter113/ch113b.html#113.24:
The bottom line is that many of you are taking some pretty serious leaps regarding the teacher. Maybe you’re right, and the teacher is a crazy liberal communist Nazi, hellbent on teaching all children about the glories of abortion or the evils of Christianity. Or maybe she didn’t want to give the kids a worksheet and gave them this assignment instead. Then, two out of control kids acted in a reprehensible way.
#52: Every state requires the reporting of abuse so they can qualify for funding through the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
However, I’m not sure the action here would require reporting under the statute. You can go to http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Contact_Us/report_abuse.asp
for more information. I think this incident would qualify as assault, but not abuse, and threatening someone doesn’t qualify under the law.
#58: Nicely done! Nothing defines “reasoned discourse” like using the bodily functions of marine life to express your perspective.
Not only are you an idiot, now you are a Sh@thouse lawyer who determines what is lawful and unlawful. You seem to be an expert on legalities and can quickly cite case study to protect your a$$ from getting fired when you screw up in the classroom.
Teachers have become the lowlife of our society hellbent on destroying childrens values and morals. Not all of them, but far too many. You being a shining example of what is wrong with teachers in the US diseducation system.
Rooster:
I’m way out of the topic of this thread, so I’m finished baiting you any more once I hit “submit.”
When Lamont and SylviaMarie found issue with my comments, they offered alternatives and explained their perspectives, which is what mature adults do when they disagree.
Two replies later, and here’s where we are with you, by my count:
1. Total uses of “s***” - 2
2. Total uses of “a**” - 1
3. Total references to my inability to perform my job - 3
4. Other miscellaneous name calling - 1
5. Anything remotely approaching a question about my postings or specific problems with my comments - 0
And now, as the resident “Sh@thouse lawyer,” I rest my case.
Shinerbray beat me to it, but it doesn’t seem that the assignment is the problem. Nothing is mentioned about what the teacher said or what grade was given, which tells me that part is irrelevent. The sign got passed around and some students took matters into their own hands.
The problem as I see it is not the assignemnt or even the punks who jumped her, but the reaction of the school officials. She reports a group of male students attacking her, then threatening to rape & kill her.
A female student reports a threat of a GANG-RAPE during a physical assault.
THE VICTIM was not allowed to call her parents.
THE VICTIM was sent back to class.
Either she didn’t seem upset or didn’t report the entirety of the attack,
OR
The school official is an idiot, afraid to upset a minority group, (or both),
OR
There is more to this story than we see here.
Looks like 3 boys were given in-school suspension http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=8138215
I don’t know how much more of this kind of garbage we, the Citizens of the USA, have to take. I am absolutely full of disgust for our Presidential candidates and the arrogant, disrespect of the will of the people and the laws of this country. Who are these politicians who can proceed with their own agenda against the will of every taxpaying citizen of this once great country. We are being sold down the river and civil disobedience of a scale never seen before is due. Didn’t they get the picture when the phone lines were shut down after reaction to the “Comprehensive Amnesty” plan?
This has got to stop and where’s the fence?
Easy: find out who they are, and send them back whence the came! You wanna start trouble here, then GET OUT!
LGM, if you are reading this, this is also the big chance for your liberal friends to move to Canada or France!
I’ll even come over and PERSONALLY help you all pack!
BTW, I’m multiracial.
Well, one piece of good news this morning, from No. Virginia:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=732&sid=1383383
Keep up the good work…
Our schools are broken beyond comprehension, is this my fault?
Excuses are made everyday for the failed public school system.
School officials (Ex Teachers) insist that with more money poured into the cesspool they can make the system work.
Most clear people know that you can’t offer ideas or solutions to a liberal, you are supposed to agree and keep your mouth shut.
I stand by my posts.
You immediately made excuses for the system you are a part of, why?
Is it because you will not believe that you and your brethern are destroying a nation under the guise of being an “educator”.
When I encounter a troll on this site I have learned not to respond to their idiotic posts. I had to take exception with yours. From 1987-2006 I was stationed in Germany.
My kids are right now in the german school system, I thank God for that. I miss them dearly, but at least I know they are getting a real education.
They do not get indoctrinated, they learn.
Shows you pretty much who’s in charge, huh?
Yeah-
The inmates are running the insane asylum with “nurse ratchett” the head looney.
GSP
I’m so glad I dont have children in school today. I have a feeling I’d be in trouble with a school administrator if he pulled this on my daughter.
I’d be calling the INS on each and every one of them so fast that they’d be paying for dinner in Pesos by the end of the week.
There is a lot of talk about the assignment and mention of the Texas standards or TEKS. After teaching in the Texas schools for a few years I can tell you that teachers in Texas live and die by the TEKS. You can’t assign anything without referencing it back to the TEKS. The teacher in question probably thought it was a creative way to address the TEKS without a boring paper and pencil assignment.
Although I have real problems with public schools and the indoctrination of our kids in them, I think the majority of teachers are good people who enjoy their work. In all the schools I taught, most of the teachers really loved teaching. But the constraints and demands of the administration and society on what can be achieved in the classroom were huge.
Teachers are just as indoctrinated as the kids sometimes. You’re fed this BS about the standards and the testings that will prove your worth as a teacher to the point that you start believing it. You have to be politically correct and watch what you say. I can see how teachers start to believe in the BS they are pushing because it is being pushed onto them by admin.
Those that don’t will likely not be teaching long. They’ll either leave teaching all together or be forced out.
I could not stand the obvious indoctrination of students while I was teaching middle school. The assignments given were ridiculous - way too pc and seeping with socialist ideas. But it was part of the curriculum that we had to teach. I could not walk into our team meeting and protest a reading assignment on this basis and state that my 6 classes of 7th grade language art students would not be doing it. Ok, I could if I was ready to lose my job.
Now you know why I left teaching. And why my kids don’t go to a public school. We lasted 1 semester in a small town public school in a suburb of OKC before we pulled them out because of issues with the curriculum.
I fully agree with most of the comments here. This needs to be fully investigated and legal action taken. Moreover, this young lady needs to copy protect the phrase. I can alreay see this phrase in t-shirts / bumper stickers, etc. The fact is Mexico is a violent place. I am from south texas, just across the border from Mexico, and people in the mexican side are not friendly.
I’m sorry, but I fail to see the educational merit of having students sit around designing posters - even if they do label them with sentences that amount to little more than parroted political sound bites.
Two quick questions for the Texas Dept of Ed:
1.) Just how does this irrelevant exercise in “arts and crafts” enhance the Texas core content’s prescribed curricula for social studies education in a manner that increases student understanding and interpretation of their roles in U.S. society while remaining both measurable and standards based?
2.) Precisely how is this activity to be measured on the state’s testing system for History Content, when there are no apparent measurable skills taught?
I have no patience for teachers who, rather than actually teach a subject, choose to lead their students in an unconventional art “experiment” and call it education!
As someone who once taught Social Studies/History to middle school students (mostly unappreciative and unimaginative 8th graders), I really would not have used “protest signs.” There are better and more creative ways to give kids the opportunity to take a pro or con position on any topic and then defend said position. While “protest signs” may seem like they’re fulfilling some curricular purpose, I don’t like the fact that some teachers want to use such a lesson to encourage kids to be “activists.”
As a Social Studies/History educator, I wanted kids to learn about American history, how to become responsible and engaged citizens (unlike many liberal teachers I once knew who looked down on me for not only being a military spouse but a, gasp, conservative). I wanted them to know how to think and communicate effectively and I’m not sure a “protest sign” assignment is quite what I would have in mind as an educator. Sometimes such an assignment can be productive for the less engaged learners in the class but, if it becomes “off-topic,” I won’t use it.
I’m surprised you would defend something like this as a Social Studies teacher yourself. I’ve taught in NY, AL, and CO and always felt time-constrained to take little “jaunts” into areas unrelated to a topic. This assignment may have covered curricular goals, but did it really cover what the children were studying? That’s what I want to know.
If this exercise was part of a larger study of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that’s one thing, but if this was an assignment that took kids on a different tangent, that’s another story. I’ve known many teachers who’ve done this to get through to kids or engage them, but if this is the kind of reaction that a mere “protest sign” will engender, I’ll stick to persuasive essays, speeches, historical character assignments, or cooperative group work instead.
CJ and Terrig,
God bless you both. Children are hard enough to raise in this day and age without anything else to complicate it. I wish you both the best.
I experienced this as well. Try New York State curriculum standards and their lovely standardized exams called the Regents. In the name of “quality education,” many states, including Texas, give a half-a$$ed, multicultural, revisionist, apologist, pc recounting of both US history and Social Studies. There were some ways that I combated this tendency. I encouraged kids to ask questions. When I taught in NY, we were using texts over 10 YEARS OLD (which is pretty typical of “cash-strapped” school districts), very inaccurate, and very liberally peppered with pcisms. While I had students point out things like inaccuracies, misprints, factual errors, I also got the typical, middle school question,”why do we have to learn this?”
Most of the time I deflected because I just plain felt uncomfortable. Then, one day (as a student teacher) I just spoke the truth, “all this information is test-driven.” I then got a follow-up question: “do you agree with that?” I said no.
Public schools have become so test-driven. I blame a lot of this on the state and federal departments of education. I also blame teachers for not raising enough of a stink about this and instead going with the flow. Some teachers claim they support individual learning styles but what I’ve often seen, in my years of teaching, is an acceptance of uniformity of thought.
I spent many years as a sub and I wonder if sunshinerbray fully understands what teaching is becoming. Many qualified teachers start as subs and while they wait for positions to open up, they get their masters degrees. Many schools claim they need teachers but are reluctant to hire from their substitute teacher pool. I experienced this first-hand, along with a lot of other subs with not just bachelor’s but master’s degree backgrounds in education.
What I, and other subs noticed was the following: a) schools would hire mostly bachelor’s recipients that were outsiders or not already subbing for the school system b) schools use a lot of long-term subs to fill teaching positions they say they can’t fill, and c) they won’t hire master’s recipients. For schools who are looking for the best qualified candidates, it looks an awful lot like cost-cutting so that administrators can earn their cushy incomes. Substitute teachers are also the first to blame when educational quality seems to fall when it’s the staffing choices/decisions of a school district that need to be looked at.
When a system becomes so bloated and ineffective that it stops producing a quality product (education) that is competitive with other countries, and breeds chaos, then that system needs to be changed.
Where is the ACLU equivalent to sue the teachers out of their profession for what they are doing to our young citizens?
Remember, most school administrators/officials were teachers first. So the old, I’m just a teacher don’t cut it bubba.
Tell me how much of the union dues collected by NEA/teachers, salary actually go into protecting our children from the crap they are indoctrinating into their little minds?
It’s amazing that if you don’t immediately follow the party line around here, you’re automatically a liberal who’s a part of the problem…
To give you some insight into my opinions of things, I’m currently writing a master’s thesis on illegal immigration and its economic effects in the 20th century. Without going into the details, I’d say it’s in-line with the conservative platform. I wrote a paper this semester on McCarthyism, and I defended much of McCarthy’s stances. I’m as conservative as they come.
#100:
I’m not “defending” the assignment. I was just trying to look at things from her POV. I personally think is was pretty weak. I might do something like that, MAYBE, for example, as a warm-up exercise during a class on the Boston Tea Party or the Dred Scott trial. However, it’s not meaty enough to be a good assessment. My only point was that it’s not completely out in left field, either.
For those of you are curious about testing for Texas social studies classes (or other core classes, for that matter) you can review the 2006 TAKS 11th grade test:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/release/taks/2006/grxltaksapril.pdf
Here is the answer key:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/release/taks/2006/gr11takskey.pdf
There’s no “teaching to a test” in my school. My kids do groupwork, document analysis, round-table debates, etc. If you cover the TEKS, which are definitely meaty, your kids will be fine.
The test is not hard. Not at all. A “passing” score on the social studies test is a little more than a 50.
Word is that the school district is holding a press conference at 2:45 Local time (in about 30 min.) and will announce that one student will be charged with “making a false claim”
Is this in fact true that Ms. Bowers has made a false claim? or is it that the school district is trying to make it all better by claiming it never happened?
http://tylerpaper.com/article/20080409/NEWS01/731498537
This is disgusting. No one should physically attack another person because of their beliefs or thoughts.
False Report Charge For Girl In Athens School Attack
Michelle, can you update the headline for this topic to reflect that this was an incidence of fraud on the purported victim’s part?
Thanks.
Michelle, seriously, this is a pretty isolated incident of this type of fraud, but we have to really be careful not to become like the liberals and be honest about what happens. If this student made it up, she is just a teenage drama queen acting out some odd Nativist facade for attention
We can’t let her detract from solid arguments for the rule of law and stemming the tide of culture dilution. This story was, after all, a story about left-wing hypocrisy and government indoctrination.