A fifth-grader reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained.
Why Was This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Put in Solitary For Three Days?
Because it’s Texas. The answer is always because it’s Texas… Well, okay. Sometimes it’s Florida too.
Texas is filled with bullies and pussies, both overlap
Real answer? America.
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There is nothing wrong with The Texas Observer.
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After a look at other articles, I’m happy to say the site is fine.
What about this article do you find to be not credible?
This is a serious over-generalization. Brownsville and the RGV vote reliably Democratic, and abuse of authority situations, involving school districts, criminal justice systems, and the police, et al, absolutely happen all over the country.
Yeah there’s some good people in Texas. That doesn’t change the fact that, for the most part, the entire state is a disgusting shit hole that is one of the biggest embarrassments in America.
That doesn’t change the fact that, for the most part, the entire state is a disgusting shit hole
There are some shitty parts of Texas for sure, but “for the most part?” You don’t know this state dude. Texas reliably votes like 55% Republican and 45% Democratic, and there are tons of awesome people, beautiful scenery, and multicultural urban centers here. The state is gerrymandered to hell though
Are your women fleeing? Hmmm.
No? I don’t know a single woman fleeing. I’ve had 3 trans friends/coworkers who have fled for sure, and I don’t blame them one bit given the political climate here, even though their local communities are extremely supportive of them. But no, not a single woman. Where are you getting your information? Hmmm?
You personally know 3 people who have had to flee the state. That’s JUST PEOPLE YOU KNOW. And you STILL say the state is a good place for the most part.
This is straight up Stockholm syndrome my man.
“Everyone needs to stop being mean to Texas! Texas is a great place to live (as long as you’re a cishet white male)!”
Bruh I live here. And I as a woman cannot WAIT to get out. It’s not great, and we shouldn’t pretend like it is. And I’m fortunate enough to be stuck in a pretty blue area. I just gotta finish serving my contract and then I’m running for the blue states ASAP.
dude it’s not just transfolk, tons of women are making the sensible choice not to have to deliver dead babies in parking lots; same for OBGYNs and pediatricians who don’t want to fetter their practice with patient risking dogma.
Not cis but I wish I could escape. My mental state is too fucked though.
Bruh, as someone who spent over ten years in Texas and got out, you are lying to yourself. Everyone i know that still lives there wants to get out but can’t for one reason or another.
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Which leads to a republican supermajority and governor and a shithole state.
Sorry, didn’t realize y’all only think in black and white like children. Fuck the most diverse large city in the country, right? And the most Hispanic large city in the country? Fuck those motherfuckers. Shitholes, all of them and every person in them
You seem to be reading things into comments that aren’t there. Texas is a shithole because of the government running the State, not the people suffering through it.
I’m failing to see where anyone is blaming them for the shit their republican government is doing.
I’ll make this more extreme as a means of illustrating the point everyone else seems to be trying to get across…
Russia is a nation full of parents who love their children, artists and musicians creating interesting and new art, and rebels developing creative and novel approaches for resisting their fascist government. But, when people say that “Russia sucks”, those aren’t the reasons.
Actually fuck the US in general. Y’all still have slavery lol.
You have to go back to Ann Richards and the 90s to find actual bipartisainship in texas man. I miss a lot of the people and the food especially, but fuck that state went bonkers after GWB and only gets more nuts. Fuck they pardoned Ken Paxton.
Just cuz you vote Democrat, doesn’t mean you’re a good person.
Can confirm, I vote Democrat and I’m still an asshole
Did you used to order sloppy steaks?
Either that or the chicken spaghetti at Chickelinni’s
Fucking degenerate probably put ketchup on it.
Everyone knows you put water on sloppy steaks, and I also used to be a piece of shit.
Was in the RGV right before Trump was elected - and again during the Beto-Cruz fight - the amount of support for conservatives there is MIND BOGGLING. I kept asking ‘how the fuck are so many latinos in the can for Cruz and Trump?’ I do not understand, especially around Harlingen and the other ‘towns’ down there.
Democrats are frequently still racist, obedience-loving sacks of shit, they’re just the lesser of two evils in a system where the greater of two evils is a pack of utterly cynical greed-as-a-virtue actual fascists.
Sounds like a little overachiever who is pretty mature for his age, up against a Karen principal who is annoyed by the kid instead of encouraging him.
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Wants to be an oncologist because his father died from blood cancer… So tragic.
Even worse than that really. She’s a principal who should’ve been fired, but instead they swapped her and the counselor from her school with the one in this one. Yes, drag the overperforming school down instead of outright replacing the staff of the underperforming one. brilliant move.
He asked her on day one where the old counselor was and she took that as an insult (because she knows she’s shit) instead of a genuine question like an 11yo would have because what fuckin 11yo, no matter how gifted, is tracking the staff moves of their school district?!
“Gee, I wonder why kids these days don’t trust law enforcement!”
Uhhh, this wasn’t just the principal. Thankfully the judge had some common sense.
Cameron County prosecutors pushed for Class C felony charges of “terroristic threat” and argued for two more weeks of detention. Instead, Judge Adela Kowalski-Garza ordered a safety risk evaluation and conditional release home until his hearing November 8.
This is horrifying. I know abuse of power is nothing new, especially in education and law enforcement, but people find new lows every day it seems. I’m glad others were there to step up and help.
It sounds like the individual responsible, Palm Grove Elementary School Principal Myrta Garza could still be a threat to additional students though. I know it’s Texas but there has to be some group there that can investigate this individual.
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If you insist on spamming this lie over and over I’m going to keep replying with the actual facts. There is nothing wrong with The Texas Observer.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-texas-observer/
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What, exactly, makes the site “propaganda”? It leans left, but they make no bones about that and are open that they are a progressive-leaning news site.
I’m sorry but that Principal is an absolute cunt. She was targeting that kid, regardless if he did or didn’t do anything wrong…
Every monster who participated in putting an 11 year old in police solitary confinement should not keep their job and should face lawsuits.
Cameron County prosecutors pushed for Class C felony charges of “terroristic threat” and argued for two more weeks of detention.
Every authoritarian here is a power-tripping coward. Abusing a prepubescent child because they didn’t get the respect they demanded is the weakest and most craven thing someone can do.
Put this principal behind bars for child abuse. And take the police and everyone involved on that side along, too. They would make a nice chain gang.
If you in America ig you can sue her for random shit. She’ll lose money, that a principle doesn’t have, in lawyers.
Do it
Uh. I could have sworn Delores Umbridge was supposed to be short…
There was no evidence he made any kind of threat against the principal other than heresay by other students?
What the hell.
That principal is an insecure power tripping loser.
This happens all the time
Some rich girl with lawyer parents accused me of making a death threat. I was suspended for a day.
Schools don’t give a shit, they are so damn paranoid that any accusation is true and any mention of the word “gun” or “knife” is immediately disciplined.
Sometimes I feel like it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. The stereotypical weird quiet kid gets bullied for being a “school shooter”, the school either disciplines him or treats him like one (checking their bag every morning and snooping through their phone and online activity) and the kid is totally isolated because there’s zero sympathy for him. Everyone bullies him and the school treats him as a threat. You can only pressure a being so much before they lash out.
I would know cause that was pretty much me until I dropped out.
Yeah, it was me too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labeling_theory
11 years old. Lost his father, bullied by his principal, abandoned by the school district therapists, falsely arrested by the police and tortured for three days by the state.
If this kid manages to grow up to be a functional adult, it will be miracle.
It’s kind of amazing that we don’t hear more stories of abused ex-students retaliating against specific teachers and administrators when the kids get older.
When I was in high school, many decades ago, we had an 11th grade teacher who treated students like shit—and took a kind of delight in her cruelty. A year after having her, a group of six seniors broke into her car, late on a Saturday night, and totaled it by destroying every bit of the interior, dash, stick shift column, and windows. It was a testament to how despised she was that it was pretty well known who had done it, but no one ever ratted them out.
More of this story please? I love it
The smart ones tend to realize karma exists and skip town before too long.
So they tortured a child.
Well, it was not a fetus anymore…
The contact info for the district’s internal audit:
The lesson here is not to question authority or you’ll get arrested and locked up.
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I’ve just had a quick look at the front page and it seems pretty normal for a smaller independent paper?
Nothing outrageous or tabloidesque that I saw?
It’s not a tabloid site, so I don’t know what you’re so irritated about?
There were articles criticizing Abbott and the draconian abortion laws, as well as promoting climate change acknowledgement from my quick view of their front page.
That’s probably what’s infuriating the OP.
Ahh, that would explain it.
That’s such a weird and Lemmy thing to say.
Where is the evidence? Just because it’s liberal doesn’t mean you should believe it.
The rest of that site is complete propaganda.
Please point out the propaganda. Be specific.
There is nothing wrong with The Texas Observer.
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