When you have a child, you are taking on a job. You should be prepared for this, but you're not, you'll need to make some tough choices. There is no need to be supported by the state. Give up cable and internet! People in this country who claim to be "poor" disgust me. I've been poor. I raised five children on $30,000 a year. That's pretty poor, but it was my choice. I could have made other choices. I could have put my children into public school and gone to work myself, rather than relying solely on the income of my husband. I could have given my baby up for adoption at the age of 18, and then used good birth control (or abstained from sex).
You make choices in life, and it's not other people's responsibility to handle the consequences for you. You still haven't given any good solution of your own. You've only insulted my proposals. It's so easy to do that, isn't it?
And for the record, I never said that calling the police on this particular girl was necessarily the right thing to do. Obviously, neither of us have enough information to make that decision. But this news reporter wants to pull on our heartstrings and try to persuade us that this was the wrong decision. She may be right, but I'm saying that *something* must be done about violent children! If that something is smaller classrooms (when the public schools are already spending over $5000 per child, even here in Florida, where there is a law governing classroom size already) then at least that would be something.
Ultimately, I think parents need to be held responsible. You bring them into this world, you are responsible for their upbringing, and that includes their behavior, unless you legally give that responsibility to someone else. And the last time I saw a story like this, the parent just blamed the school and the police.
Six years old and having *violent* outbursts? Something is obviously wrong here.
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Date: 2007-04-10 04:25 pm (UTC)You make choices in life, and it's not other people's responsibility to handle the consequences for you. You still haven't given any good solution of your own. You've only insulted my proposals. It's so easy to do that, isn't it?
And for the record, I never said that calling the police on this particular girl was necessarily the right thing to do. Obviously, neither of us have enough information to make that decision. But this news reporter wants to pull on our heartstrings and try to persuade us that this was the wrong decision. She may be right, but I'm saying that *something* must be done about violent children! If that something is smaller classrooms (when the public schools are already spending over $5000 per child, even here in Florida, where there is a law governing classroom size already) then at least that would be something.
Ultimately, I think parents need to be held responsible. You bring them into this world, you are responsible for their upbringing, and that includes their behavior, unless you legally give that responsibility to someone else. And the last time I saw a story like this, the parent just blamed the school and the police.
Six years old and having *violent* outbursts? Something is obviously wrong here.