"Justice" in a RepubliCANT world.

Post #349,817 by lincoln 10/28/11 6:10:08 PM Reply	"Justice" in a RepubliCANT world. A student at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio was brutally beaten this week by another student for being gay. Class members watched as the bully waited for the student to arrive in the classroom, grabbed him, pushed him to the ground and punched him in the face several times. Another student recorded the assault on his cell phone. The video was posted to Facebook. The bully had harassed the gay student (who has not been identified) on Facebook a few days earlier, writing, as the comment on a photo of him: "You fag. Check out the definition of a fag." According to an email received by Towleroad from Equality Ohio, "The victim has suffered a possible concussion and dental damage. The attacker was suspended from school for just three days." http://www.towleroad...10/ohiobully.html "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #349,830 by beepster 10/28/11 9:16:41 PM Reply	Re: "Justice" in a RepubliCANT world. http://www.chillicot...ws\|text\|Frontpage Boy hasn't returned, discipline and criminal charges pending Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #349,838 by S1mon_Jester 10/29/11 9:31:27 AM Reply	Yeah but notice a few other things as well. 1) Discipline charges were only altered after the mother complained about it AND VIDEO was released. 2) Discipline charges were also only altered after the police/court (not the school) started getting involved. 3) Note that in your link - the boy who took the video was also discipline. (nothing to see here, move along) In short, I suspect the school official who decreed 3 days suspension is now worried that they'll lose their job. (They should.) That said, the only part that remotely screams Republican Justice is that they tried to sweep it under the rug/a gay was attacked. School systems aren't notoriously known to be havens of Conservatism.
Post #349,839 by crazy 10/29/11 9:53:54 AM Reply	They want quiet Follow the money. The superintendent wants his job, and control, he reports to the board. The principal wants his job, and control. He reports up, but he is in control of the local teachers and can exert direct influence. The level of conservative or liberal slant of the school typically depends on that, under the total guidelines from the board but it takes a long time (if ever) to force any change from below. Individual teachers and courses enforce selective pressure. History, psychology, sociology are wide open for left or right attitudes. Math, not so much. Science is usually on the left, but an occasional righty will slip through. The last thing any of these people want is an INCIDENT. They will sweep anything under the rug that they can. This gives extra power to any of the aggressors in these situations, up to the point of media explosion. At that point they may be forced to do something.

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