Saturday, October 31, 2015

Incident at South Carolina school should serve as a lesson for parents!

Everyone in the black communites across this nation is in an uproar about how a South Carolina deputy escorted a 16 year black female student from her class. Yes! It was brutal!. It was down right inhumane how this at least 230 lb Sheriff's Deputy handled the removal of this 16 year old student. The shock value is worth millions!. A big white dude dragging a little black girl across her class room floor while trying to get her out of her desk. I am a firm believer in Cause and Effect. While emotions run high and anger grows it is almost impossible if consumed by these emotions to take a in depeth realistic view at what happened that spun such a massive mis guided response from the black community to so called black scholars to  black radio talk show personalities to those even in your own black  community. Going by what we know. ( We as in the general public) This particular student was asked to leave her classroom, because of her refusal to put away her cell phone while in class. The problem is that after at least four directives and this young lady refusing all directive's, the school officials elected to call the Sheriff's Department to handle the situation. Black Parents are furious " if that were a white girl would he snatched her out of her chair like that?, Seems to be one of the main cries from the black community.  I say, don't allow speculation to feed you something that is not there. The fact that the school officials decided to alert the Sheriff should be a lesson to parents about the character of their children. The climate today in school districts around the country is a that black teens are such a threat, so dis respectful, so confrontational, that the teachers and officials prefer to call the police first when your child is acting out of character. Now what most black folks don't know is , because children are a reflection of what goes on in the home, understand why the teachers and officials will prefer not to even contact the parents first.( The apple don't fall far from the tree scenario)  Never allow the Effect to diminish the Cause. Simply put had the young lady removed her self from the situation before the deputy arrived when she was instructed to , the deputy would have never had a chance to lay hands on her. So what she is a ward of the State, her mother pass recently, there wasn't enough sugar in her kool-aid, are no excuse to prevent others from learning and disrespecting school officials and defying directive's that would have saved her from this national and international embarrassment. However I would ask parents today, why is it that your teen believes he or she can in fact disrespectfully challenge their teachers authority? By you not installing in your children to respect their elders or authority figures this has created the hostile profiling of we have witnessed over the past 20 something years involving black teens. No teacher should feel as though he or she might have to come to blows one day with an un ruly incoropertive  student. No teacher should have to deal with any student screaming profanity at them even if the child didn't get a meal before he or she got to school. Parents today send their children to school in such a messed up condition, that learning is almost impossible and to teach children and teens are becoming more difficult and educators across this nation are becoming impatient with the lack of parental involvement.,( When some parents are involved. It is no different then dealing with the child on almost all levels from behavior to verbage) The behavior the world witnessed in that class room is all to common and known to extend in publice places far beyond the schools. From leaked YouTube videos of teenage girls inside schools bathrooms beating the crap out each other to videos of teens taking challenges that almost kill them, to video taped bullying  makes  one say what are the parents teaching their children while or when at home?. While two jobs and the notion that I wanna give my children the things I never had made parents scholars in the material provisions of their children's up bringing, it is apparent that parents are failing miserably in  mentally stablizing their children for a world who already profiles their children and  institute systems that are designed to  impede their children's upward mobility. Parental involvement begins at home, not the days you have the time to sit up at your children's school, i.e  parent teacher conferences, sporting events ect. Some may argue, No matter what you teach them, children are going to do what they want to do any way, well where I'm from that is called stupid, just plain stupid!. To know better ,yet do the opposite says either a person is stupid or crazy. The fact that most parents today lack the strength to rear their children in the right direction is causing their children to loose big on what could be a wonderful educating experience, inspite of the curriculum. Parents today are facing the exact same challenges from their own children within their own homes similar to the challenge that young lady presented to her teacher everyday, yet the parents can only foucs on the way that Sheriff's Deputy ended the situation, not how this student ignited the situation and the measures she could have took to prevent this from happening to her.