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1SG Steven Imerman
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2017-18 was the last year I taught. Had a very out of control young man who bullied anyone and everyone he thought he could get away with bullying and who treated females grossly. "I can smell your xxxx!", "Shut the xxxx up, bxxxx!", etc., all the time. When confronted he would tell teachers, counselors, the principal, "I'll xxxxing kill you, xxxhole," and thing along that line. Horrible, disgusting behavior at all times.

Was he put in in school suspension, suspended, referred for special counseling, anything? No, because that type of behavior intervention was statistically tracked and nobody wanted to be asked why it was the black kid being treated or disciplined in this manner.

IF HE WAS WHITE, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEVERAL BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS TO TRY TO HELP, BUT HE WAS BLACK AND NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE EVERYONE WAS SCARED OF THE STATISTIC!

I pushed for and finally got a meeting with all involved, plus guardians, a school police officer, and someone from the superintendents office, to try to get some help or action to both rein in the young man and to help him cope with his issues. I lost big time, they told me the young man was high energy, rambunctious, my job to deal with. Then they called in the youngster to tell him about everyone's concern and that nothing was going to actually change.

Bad idea on their part. He came in the meeting and within 45 seconds had begun berating everyone in the room, told all of us, "Suck my xxxx!" among other things, and promised the police officer he would throw her on the floor and xxxx her in front of everybody.

He was finally suspended for 15 days, on a kind of "in home" temporary schooling program, and started seeing the school psychologist. Appointments were set up to get him to specialists.

He at long last began to be treated and cared for, treated and cared for as if he were white. This is racism. I know it is meant to help, but it sets up minority kids for failure by keeping them out of the interventions a white kid can and will be afforded.

Sorry, I know this has nothing to do with guns. Off my soapbox. 'Sides, my coffee got cold. Have a good one.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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It is related in my opinion. The more we excuse behavior based on race, religion, economics, etc the more we almost guarantee a tragedy down the line.
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LTC David Brown
LTC David Brown
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It does have a lot to do with school shootings and school safety. We had a similar incident at a school around Augusta. Nothing was done until the young man raped a girl. He got in fights and sexually assaulted several young ladies. Finally when he raped one something was done.
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1SG Steven Imerman
1SG Steven Imerman
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Note: I had 3.5 months left, and my principal never spoke to me again. Never. Everything to me was routed through the secretary.
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1SG Steven Imerman - I would say this has a lot to do with guns. If we as a society can come to grips with the problems then we can deal with the problems.
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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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Thanks for sharing.
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SGT Whatever Needs Doing.
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Good article
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