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Philadelphia Mother Outraged When Teacher Gives 14-Year-Old Son 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

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Rogue Cop Assaults Elementary School Student

When Officer David Bailey grabbed a 10-year-old student by the back of his head and slammed it into the school cafeteria table, it is safe to say that student was not free to leave. On that afternoon, Bailey decided that his routine beat on the streets of Southeast D.C. extended into the hallways of Moten Elementary School.

Although Bailey was not a trained school resource officer contracted from the Metropolitan Police Department nor one of the three contract officers assigned to Moten at the time, his presence raised no red flags. Regular visits from the police in D.C. Public Schools had become ubiquitous.

On the day of the alleged assault, the student, "T.P." had been sent to the cafeteria for the infraction of failing to adequately participate in music class. The result of his childish behavior was a full-on police encounter.

One emergency room, two weeks and countless headaches later. T.P. seemed to be back to normal. Only his mother could see that something about him had changed: T.P. was now afraid to go to school.

Last week when the ACLU of the Nation's Capital filed a civil complaint for damages against a Metropolitan Police Officer on behalf of T.P., news stations clamored to hear the story of the alleged assault. Was this story of a rogue cop's brutality against a young boy, just a freak anomaly or the result of a system by design? Perhaps it was both. In the matrix of policies and police ushering black and brown students out of classrooms and into courtrooms, the School-to-Prison Pipeline takes shape.

Although no crimes had been reported at Moten in the two years before the incident with Bailey, D.C. Public Schools continues to promote policies which increase police involvement. Moten, which serves indigent African American children, sits atop a hill overlooking a community with staggering unemployment rates. Here, police on their beats weave a prison-like environment from T.P.'s doorstep all the way into his school cafeteria.

There was no guidance counselor or teacher present when Bailey, a crime-fighting cop, decided to take school disciplinary matters into his own hands. Criminalizing the normal behavior of black and brown children is the hallmark of the School-to-Prison Pipeline. When non-criminal behaviors in school result in interactions with the criminal justice system, suspension or expulsions, children suffer a powerful blow to their dignity and trust in the school system. Children of color bear a disproportionate burden of unconstitutional police encounters in the educational context.

On the south side of the Anacostia River where Moten sits, the police state and its culture of surveillance erodes any semblance of civil liberties for local residents. T.P. and his classmates cannot remember a time before schools began having metal detectors and roving police officers. But they will likely never forget the day they discovered that school was a place that is unfair and unsafe.

In the wake of the Newtown School Massacre, lawmakers on the north side of the Anacostia River make impassioned speeches about the need to expand police presence in schools. Amidst the feverish political debates T.P.'s mother seems startlingly clear when she says, "Police don't belong in schools with children."

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http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech-human-rights-racial-justice/rogue-cop-assaults-elementaryWhen Officer David Bailey grabbed a 10-year-old student by the back of his head and... more

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University instructor told students to write the word 'Jesus' on paper, throw it on the floor and stomp on it

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to know why a student at Florida Atlantic University was suspended for refusing to stomp on "Jesus."

FAU junior Ryan Rotela refused to participate in a classroom activity on March 4, when communications instructor Dr. Deandre Poole asked students to write "Jesus" on a piece of paper and then stomp on it, the Sun Sentinel reports.

Rotela, who has been described in local media reports as a devout Mormon, told WPEC two days later that he complained to Poole's supervisor, Noemi Marin, director of the communications school at FAU. According to the station, Rotela was then suspended from Poole's class, but the university insisted in a subsequent story that no student was disciplined in any way as a result of the incident.

FAU said in a statement that students were given an explanation about the exercise and an option to participate, a description that differed from Rotela's version of events.

The back-and-forth drew in Scott, who is asking state university system Chancellor Frank Brogan for a detailed report on the controversy, the Miami Herald reports.

"Whether the student was reprimanded or whether an apology was given is in many ways inconsequential to the larger issue of a professor's poor judgment," Scott said in a letter to Brogan, according to the Herald. "The professor's lesson was offensive, and even intolerant, to Christians and those of all faiths who deserve to be respected as Americans entitled to religious freedom."

FAU has said professors won't use the "offensive" exercise again. "It was insensitive and unacceptable. We continue to apologize to all the people who were offended and deeply regret this situation has occurred," reads a statement from the university.

According to Mediate, the idea for the activity came from an instructor's manual that accompanies the course textbook.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/stomp-on-jesus_n_2963400.html

It's a bit strange though---FOX NEWS is defending that professor. See link:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/26/in-defense-florida-university-jesus-stomping-exercise/Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to know why a student at Florida Atlantic University was... more

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California 7th grade student sends Hello Kitty doll into near space (Video)

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Huge Light Falls On & Pins Wrester - Madison Square Garden ★DSVL★ (David Spates)

David Spates Shows & talks about highschool wrestler who was hit by a huge light.

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Know Your Rights! A Student Backs Down Cop After Being Unlawfully Stopped for Carrying a Gun in Portland, Maine

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Exclusive Update: NC Student Who Videotaped Pro-Obama Screaming Teacher Faces Harassment

Remember one month ago, when a high-school junior in the Rowan-Salisbury school... more

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Cuba healing the world - the world’s largest free international medical school

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Artistic Uprising at Antioch University Los Angeles, 2010

The Artistic Uprising in 2010 at Antioch University Los Angeles showcased... more

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Super Frat: That Poor Man

The bros talk about John Edwards.

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Super Frat: It’s Not TV, It’s Depression

Dick checks on his sleepless bro.

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Gov Andrew Cuomo: 'white knight' or 'sith lord'?

When your 'average Joe' is found to have lied under oath - especially before Congress- (like some pro athletes) he's subjected to media scorn and increased scrutiny by those in law enforcement for 'perjury'. When a state Attorney General does the same - no action is taken and he becomes a 'shoe-in' for Governor.

Alternately, when that same AG posts a letter thru the US Postal Service (in response to a criminal complaint) lying in-regard to his inability to enforce the laws and refusing his sworn duty to ensure state residents are NOT defrauded out of what little funds they have (through a scheme to defraud not only THEM but state and federal taxpayers as well) - he's committed 'Mail Fraud'.

Which is Andrew Cuomo; Mail Fraudster or perjurer?

According to the Governor (while NYS AG) he was prohibited from investigating SUNY officials over criminal complaints of 'Financial Fraud' and 'Coercion/Conspiracy to Commit Financial Fraud' in regard to these officials instructing (through threats) NYS college students to enter false information on FAFSA applications so the students might remain 'enrolled' in college even though they were NOT attending ANY of the classes required for graduation in their chosen degree fields.

Students found their majors switched (for a year or more) to some other 'alternate' course of study (Phys-Ed, arts and crafts, TV Shows/movies of the 1960s, etc) rather than those majors which were more likely to gain them employment upon graduation (ie: medical studies like nursing and medical imaging) after SUNY officials denied them access to the all important 'clinical classes' - required and mandatory for graduation.

Students were threatened with expulsion from the SUNY system for refusing to collaborate in this scheme with most accepting their fate and declaring their 'intent' to study towards graduation in the alternate course of study picked for them by college officials - for a year or more (financed by YOUR tax dollars). When college officials finally acquiesced to permit them into the clinical classes - the students merely switched BACK to their original course of study and (hopefully) went on to graduation - several thousands of dollars MORE in-debt.

Of course - there's that little matter of the grant monies. See 'offering a False or Fraudulent Claim for Payment' with the federal government constitutes a felony crime - punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of 3 times the cost to the government (plus $10,000) to prosecute.

Cuomo was informed of this criminal scheme in 2005 while he held the office of NYS Attorney General AND was the (self-proclaimed) 'People's Lawyer'.

In responding to a criminal complaint against these SUNY officials he claimed; to investigate the actions of SUNY officials would present a 'conflict of interest' - both SUNY and the AG's office being state agencies. Yet in his sworn (under oath) testimony before Congress he specifically stated he'd investigated "the state university system of New York" for defrauding SUNY students on college loans (the 'Predatory Lender' scandal). See - http://youtu.be/NejE6c-5n_U at 9:30 minutes.

So is Andrew Cuomo New York's white knight or Elliot Spitzer's protege?

And will ANYONE in law enforcement come to the aid of these students to punish their 'financial rapists'? From the responses given by US Attorney's, US DOE, the FBI and White House staff - not bloody likely!When your 'average Joe' is found to have lied under oath - especially before... more