Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

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    Data from Brownsville ISD seen by The Observer showed its officers made 3,102 student arrests between May 2021 and Nov. 2023. Nearly 60% of those were on felony charges and 76 of those kids were in elementary school.

    what the fuck is going on over there

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      High-speed school-to-prison pipeline. Because inmates=free labour and prisons are for-profit. Gotta get 'em kidz institutionalized as early as possible!

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          I suspect that being born from the wrong vagina is a crime for those people.

          It just explains so many things: from their criminalization of abortion whilst taking State support away from poor single mothers to emprisioning kids who don’t have a mommy and daddy with the right connections or who can afford the kind of lawyer who would extract a massive compensations from everybody involved in putting a kid in prision like this.

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            Pretty sure avoiding “being born from the wrong vagina” is a popular defense of abortion among liberals.

            “It just explains so many things” When you’re a moron any description of a cause will suffice for the outcome.

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        This was what they found in other schools too. One specific location ( I can’t remember where) the dads formed a group to a) keep kids peaceful and b) because they were being sent to jail for schoolyard bs. It was a largely black school. If you want to look it up with the sad details my brain is providing. Sry

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        Yep. Also noticed that the principal that called the police and the DA refusing to drop the case have the same last name. Garza isn’t that rare of a last name, but it’s not exactly “Smith”, either. I’d bet good money those fuckers are related to each other.

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          I’m just saying… you never had a kid in class that was years older then everyone else, not doing shit, disrupting class all the time, getting violent and ending up in jail for attempt murder just after leaving school? I had. I wish there was a way to get him out of school earlier. I would be a better environment for everyone. But there wasn’t so they had to deal with him till he was 18 yo. Then on the other hand if you let teachers kick kids out they will get lazy and start locking up children for anything like in Texas.

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            Do you know what solitary confinement is? It’s putting someone in a cell, likely without furniture, for lengthy periods of time (discounting an hour of exercise by themselves). The light never turns off. There is absolutely no stimulation whatsoever allowed. Other prisoners yell through the air ducts in the hopes that someone will yell back.

            That environment is torture for an adult. This is a 10-year-old child.

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              You really think the general populace is safe for a 10-year old?

              Solitary confinement sucks, but in many cases it’s done to protect individuals from, you know, the other extremely violent people.

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              Weird, in my case it was only in elementary school. High school was not mandatory so the disruptive kids simply didn’t go there.

              Edit: Oh, just realized that you probably also have middle school. I didn’t. It was the same school from age 7 to 15. Education was mandatory till 18 or 16 yo so the school was stuck with all the stupid kids till then.

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                Ahhhh right, simple mistake to make. Middle school kids definitely deserve solitary confinement. Fucking what??

                I hope that maybe you’re just ignorant to what “solitary confinement” means, but even then, you’re talking about locking children away in fucking prison for misbehaving in 6th grade art class. Get a grip.

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                  Jesus, who’s talking about solitary confinement? Not even the original comment mentioned it. I definitely didn’t. Relax. It’s a shitty situation but getting angry about things you imagined is not going to save anyone.

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                    The original article is about putting a child into solitary confinement. You don’t even need to read the article. But keep moving those goalposts…

                    Is it really that much harder to just admit you were wrong (or literally just take the L and not respond at all) than doubling down on something so easily disproven?

                    The mindset is just fascinating to me.

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        76 arrests of elementary students? Does it really matter? I have a hard time believing any arrest is appropriate for that age