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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan *anybody* explain this to me? Because I sure as fuck don't get it.
Students Walk Out in Support of Fired DeputyHundreds of students walked out of Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday morning in support of the deputy sheriff who was fired after violently arresting a black student. Students reportedly chanted Free Fields in support of Ben Fields, a school resource officer and football coach who was caught on tape forcibly removing a black student from her desk, allegedly because she was disrupting class. The students walked into the school atrium and then returned to class after administrators addressed them.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/10/30/students-walk-out-for-fired-deputy.html?via=twitter_page
http://www.live5news.com/story/30393934/spring-valley-students-stage-walkout-in-support-of-ben-fields
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)where all law officers are known as "heroes".
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Sheesh.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)where the football coach literally chased the shooter from the school building.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hero-coach-frank-hall-on-ohio-school-shooting-at-chardon-high/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)Yay for the coach who chased the shooter in Ohio. The thug cop/coach who slammed the girl in SC was something else entirely. The two cases have no relevance to each other.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)Not all football coaches are assholes like the one that beat up the girl. My high school football coach was a great guy and a family man.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)apparently regarded their football program as more important than the way their pig of a coach treated the girl he abused. I do reserve the right to be sarcastic about football because it (and other sports) gets way more respect, attention and funding than it deserves. Of course not all football coaches are assholes. At my high school the hockey coach was the asshole.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)lot with no consequences because if the team punished the player then they might lose the game. Happens everywhere.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)phased by all the activity. They looked like it was an everyday occurrence. I wonder if the girl was a disruptive influence in the class and the students that were there to learn are the ones supporting the deputy.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)back neck and arm. This guy did not show any concern when he did this. He could have killed her (broke her neck) the way he slammed her and then grab her out of her desk. This child needed help and instead she got violence.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)you see some kind emotion out of other people. Maybe they are so numbed by everything that they prefer videoing everything instead of experiencing something. I have seen videos where a bunch of people are videoing a person bleeding to death instead of helping the person. Maybe that is why everyone did not even bat an eye. I noticed the girl seated behind her did not even flinch when the desk was slammed into hers.
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)They specialize in hiding their emotions.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Their opinion reflects mine.
Fear. Those kids didn't react because an angry cop is a mad dog, and will bite anyone that objects.
When you've been show that Coach Dredd can do anything you shut up, scrunch down, let the storm pass.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)I think she was arrested also.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,184 posts)He has a reputation. He also made a point to take the Chromebook off the girl's desk to keep IT safe.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)Make7
(8,543 posts)JI7
(89,247 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Students reportedly chanted Free Fields in support of Ben Fields, a school resource officer and football coach who was caught on tape forcibly removing a black student from her desk, allegedly because she was disrupting class.
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)Football trumps just about everything.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It is almost like a cult...no, it IS a cult.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)student and spanked her in front of the entire school.
high school kids are assholes
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)A lot has to do with who the student is, and what group she is in (ie who her friends are). If the girl is an outcast or in an outcast social group, the other students will tend to side with the teacher/officer, against the girl. They don't have a lot of perspective.
As they get older (seniors), many high school kids start to gain a higher awareness, and get beyond the dictates of the teenager-created social structure. But until that happens, they are slaves to it.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)just so I could raise them to be decent human beings to offset the hoards of kids who seem to be complete heartless assholes.
I swear, all the wrong people are breeding. People don't realize that the point of raising a child is to create an adult who is an asset to society, rather than a liability.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)FSogol
(45,481 posts)Key word: Football.
What a frigging embarrassment. Suspend them all.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Blame the adults that have encouraged this sort of behavior, not those who have been trained into it.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)That about sums it up.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and Faux Snooze?
Igel
(35,300 posts)Not mutually exclusive.
1. The guy was generally liked and friendly and helped a lot of kids. Perhaps because it's football, perhaps not. One officer assigned to a school I worked at got along really well with the students. And still bruised kids, no doubt, when he frog-walked them from the building after battery, drug dealing, arson, etc.
2. The student was disliked for her behavior. A lot of kids may not like school, but if a student is disruptive it makes their life harder--they dislike school, want to pass, and have to deal with a student who constantly disrupts their environment. It creates a stressed out teacher, which creates a more stressful class; it creates lower achievement levels because time is spent not on providing a free and appropriate education but in maintaining order. I had a class that actually clapped when it learned this one kid was finally sent to an alternative ed program for 6 weeks.
Note that low SES kids are more susceptible to having their learning really hurt by class disruptions. It takes 3-4 kids that like the disruption, who are rewarded for being moderate disruptors, to create problems. Or one kid who's really, really good at it. Often the "reward" is attention, or the sense of power at controlling the classroom.
Empathy has a good side, it has a bad side.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)They'll wise up after losing their health from Endless War and living with the govt fucking them over.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Raping children is even considered secondary to a good football coach
lpbk2713
(42,755 posts)I don't think right or wrong factored in so much.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)The kind that worship power and force.
I've heard quite a few saying she basically deserved it for not "respecting" his authority.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)He would have his life threatened but in South Carolina black lives really don't matter so we get cheers and chants of support.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)'Nuff said
rug
(82,333 posts)Consistency and all.