Childhood Criminalized: Suspended In Elementary School

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2015-02-09 01:09

Article here. Excerpt:

'A nine-year-old Texas schoolboy was suspended from his elementary school for posession of a “magic ring.” Remember the poptart gun? The Nerf gun? The Lego gun? The pointed finger gun? In another time, these typical childrens’ toys would have gotten as little notice as the old fashioned cap gun but in a world where the list of childhood offenses also includes possession of a novelty pen or a Hello Kitty bubble gun, it comes as little surprise that a Lord of the Rings “magic ring” would land Aiden Steward in suspension from his elementary school in Kermit, Texas.

The story spread like wildfire from Yahoo News! to FOX News, originating with the Odessa American’s original report on the budding fourth grade magician who was accused of “terrorizing” his classmates because he said that he would make them “disappear” with his Hobbit prop. Unfortunately, in the 21st Century classroom, displays of “make-believe” are not taken with a grain of salt. Instead, they are perceived through a wary eye, often warranting the kind of macabre school sanctioned remediation that transforms kiddies into criminals.

Welcome to public school, a place where the US Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights March 2014 snapshot of the 2011-12 school year showed that boys, as a demographic group regardless of race and/or socioeconomic strata, represented 79% of preschool children suspended once and 82% of preschool children suspended multiple times, although boys only represented 54% of preschool enrollment.

Even a Yale University study revealed that boys are nearly five times more likely to be expelled from preschool than girls.'

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One of the goals of feminism is to have all men declared criminals--or potential criminals. In that way, men can be given "special treatment" because they are, in fact, a criminal class. For example, men are rapists or potential rapists--so they all should be treated with suspicion. And forget due process--criminals don't need no stinkin' due process.

Criminalizing young boys is simply part of the feminist goal of for criminalizing men. But what men wants to live in a country where he and his fellow men are treated as de facto criminal class? In what way is it fair or equal to treat all men--half the population--as de facto criminals?

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Submitted by el cid on Tue, 2015-02-10 16:09