A school district and local prosecutors in Texas are refusing to drop charges against an 11-year-old who was held in solitary confinement.

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

      • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
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        11 months ago

        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.

          • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
            01·
            11 months ago

            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.

            • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              11 months ago

              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.

              • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
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                11 months ago

                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.

                • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  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.

                  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
                    01·
                    11 months ago

                    And ladies and gents, we have the ‘moving goalposts’ comment, it’s ‘reddit bingo’ and we can close this thread. Thanks you everyone.

                  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
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                    11 months ago

                    So reddit of you. Ignore the entire thread, look only at the headline, talking about related things is forbidden, only the headline matters.