School Shootings And Northeast Kansas

Marshall County, Kentucky; January 24......16 children shot by someone outside the school, 2 of them were killed. Here's a letter written by a child who witnesses the shooting and buried a friend, as a result.

Broward County Florida, February 14.....17 children killed by a former student, who had been expelled because he enjoyed taking guns to school.

Marshall County Kansas, Frankfort, March thru May of 2014......an eighteen year old high school senior who was out of jail on bond and on probation for a previous crime took a gun to school with him. While he was expelled, he was allowed back into the building seven weeks later for commencement, in violations of the Gun Free School Zones Act, which mandates that such a student be barred from entering the building for an entire year. Dean Dalinghaus, the principal, has a habit of rudely accusing anyone who does not want guns inside of Frankfort School of wanting the school to be like "an inner city school"! He then proceeds to all of the other parents and children with derisive comments about the parent who wishes to ban guns from the school. As it happens, Dalinghaus neglected to make the proper reports about the incident in 2014 to the FBI, and had not even told the Kansas Department of Education that an arrest had been made at Frankfort High School involving a student and a gun. That's how well some schools enforce the law.

Kentucky Racist Nasty Person

 Jefferson Mall, in Louisville, Kentucky, had a customer today who yelled and screamed at a couple of other customers who were ahead of her in line. The irate racist perceived some slight concerning waiting in line to make a purchase and harassed two other customers because of their race! One of the women ahead of the racist ranter wanted to purchase an item without a price tag, and went back to where she had found it, in an effort to find an identical item with a price tag, so it could be scanned at the register. When she gave the item to the cashier, the customer behind her, the racist ranter, began screaming insults! This happened in JCPenney.

Jefferson Mall has announced its intention to ban the woman, but the fact that no one stepped in to ask her to stop her tirade is troubling. Would it have been terribly difficult for to ask her to be quiet and leave others alone? Could the cashiers, or security in JCPenney, have taken a couple of minutes to ask the woman to calm down or leave the store?

Another troubling factor is the response of Greg Fischer, the mayor of Louisville. He stated, after seeing the video, which went viral on Facebook, that he was "sad and disappointed" at the racist customer's conduct, and that "this is not who we are", meaning the community. He is wrong; it actually IS who they are. If it wasn't, JCPenney's associates would have put a stop to the harassment immediately. Other customers would have asked the woman to stop. In fact, if that customer's behavior does not define the community at some level, she would never have felt free to behave that way at all. Greg Fischer hasn't really reacted to the incident or to the customer's racist rant; he responded to the fact that an embarrassing and very revealing video about his city was downloaded to Facebook.

Suspected Serial Killer Hides In Christian Shelter

Samuel Little was discovered in a Christian homeless shelter in Kentucky this past September. He is seventy-two years old, and was arrested on a drug charge, but when his DNA was run through the database, it matched evidence collected from the unsolved California murders of Guadalupe Apodaca and Audrey Nelson, both murdered in 1989, and of Carol Alford, murdered in 1987. He also uses more than one alias, and he and each alias have criminal records in twenty-four states. But the Christian gentry at Bayside Christian Mission in Louisville had no problems with Mr. Little, and thought he was very nice. A person who does not commit crimes or abuse drugs, yet fails to conform and blend into "the background" (whatever blending into the background is: in Mr. Little's case, it was running from the law) while questioning Christianity will not be very well liked or accepted by Christians, but a criminal living on the lam can blend right in. That's very interesting.
 

Do Students Belong In Duffle Bags?

Of all the insane outrageousness! Just when I though I had nearly heard it all, too! A "teacher" in Kentucky, for special needs children, decided that since a nine year old boy named Christopher Baker smirked at her and threw a basketball across the room, she'd stuff him in a duffle bag and pull the drawstring shut! She then put the duffle bag out in the hallway before calling the boy's mom. When Christpher's mom arrived, she did not know, at first, that her son was inside of a duffle bag, and was stunned to hear the bag say, "Mommy, is that you?"

Ya know......Christopher's mom must be a saint, because I am not sure, exactly, what I would have done if that were my child. Everything about this, from the risk of suffocation, to the humiliation, is simply abusive. I don't care how many times the little boy smirked. I also don't care how difficult of a day this special ed teacher was having, there is simply no excuse for something like that! I don't know this teacher personally, but I am forced to ponder if she took the job with special needs children because they have a more difficult time speaking up about abuse issues within their schools than normal children. If that's the case, she needs to go. But guess what....she's not going anywhere. Kentucky schools, and her principal, think this is an okay way to educate any child with aspergers or any other disability on the autism spectrum. Here's what the principal, Dennis Davis, had to say, quoting from the above referenced Yahoo article: "The employees of the Mercer County Public Schools are qualified professionals who treat students with respect and dignity while providing a safe and nurturing learning environment," Davis said in a statement."

Okay, now that we know that schools in Kentucky consider the inside of a duffle bag a safe and dignified place to learn, and that the "qualified professional" teaching in Kentucky will have an assortment of duffel bags in various sizes in which students can learn, a woman named Lydia Brown has put together a petition and a letter to sign, because Kentucky sees no problem with stuffing children into duffle bags. The Yahoo article did not include a link to the petition, so I will. Here it is. http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-board-of-education-of-mercer-county-kentucky

Another very serious consideration about this is the fact that if this child had died in the duffle bag, what on earth would have happened? Would someone have hidden the duffle bag for the teacher and would this have been another missing child case? Or, suppose someone had entered the school, picked up the duffel bag, Christopher still inside, and put it into the trunk of his car and departed? School camaras would not have recorded Christopher's image, the camaras would have recorded a person walking with a duffle bag. This is dangerous, folks. And very, very wrong. Please sign Lydia Brown's petition.