Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Mississippi Daycare

Here's one daycare center you don't want to send your kids to. In this disturbing video, a 9 year old is seen punching and kicking innocent toddlers. But don't worry, in the same clip, his aunt says he's a "normal kid." No word yet on the whereabouts of his parents.


Then, one of the toddler's fathers shows up and punches the wrong kid. He hit a six year old and was arrested. The deep South is still living in the 1800's...

 

Caught on Camera: 9-Year-Old Terrorizes Daycare | wgrz.com

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Worst idea ever


This might be the worst idea I've ever heard of from any school administration. From Gawker.com: A middle school tried to make the elections "more fair" by only allowing white kids to run for class President and black kids to run for Vice President. Believe it or not, this was some kind of misguided attempt to get more kids involved in the school's elections, since 72% of the school is white. All went as planned until a parent of a mixed child called the school to ask which group her son belonged to. Officials told her in those cases, it would come down to the race of the mother. So, these are the people we are entrusting to run our school systems?

Middle School Segregates Class Elections by Race

Thinking about running for eighth grade class president at Mississippi's Nettleton Middle School? Are you white? Because only white kids can run for president. Black kids can be vice-president, though! But only black kids. Update: They changed the policy.

A few days ago, Nettleton Middle School students brought home the following memo, which spells out the requirements for students who want to run for class office and was provided to blogger Suzy Richardson by a parent:

Middle School Segregates Class Elections by Race (Updated)