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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on January 11, 2007, 12:30:27 PM
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http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_4978082 (http://www.lowellsun.com/front/ci_4978082)
What's brown done for him?
By CHRIS CAMIRE, Sun Staff
Article Last Updated: 01/09/2007 01:05:17 PM EST
Darren Sawyer of Lowell in the brown T-shirt and sweatshirt that got him thrown out of school. SUN/JON HILL
LOWELL -- Darren Sawyer was given a choice at the beginning of school yesterday: Change out of his brown clothes or go home.
Brown clothing was recently banned at the Molloy Alternative High School, where Sawyer is a sophomore. The ban came about from the emergence of the Brown Mafia, a new teenage gang in Lowell whose members wear the color brown, school officials said.
When Sawyer refused to change into a school-issued T-shirt or call home to have other clothes brought to the school, he was sent home, said Molloy Principal Kathy Akashian.
"It's ridiculous," said Sawyer's mother, Lisa Motard. "I've heard of banning red and black. Now brown? What other colors are they going to come up with?"
Akashian deemed Sawyer's chocolate Aeropostale hooded sweatshirt and American Eagle T-shirt to be in violation of the school handbook, which prohibits students from wearing gang-related clothing. Akashian said students were verbally warned "several months ago" not to wear brown to school.
"We try to make the school as
accepting and welcoming as possible for these kids," said Akashian.
The Brown Mafia emerged several months ago in the city, according to School Resource Officer Tim Crowley. It was formed by black and Hispanic teenagers, but also accepts members from other ethnic backgrounds, Crowley said.
"When we identify a color a gang is associated with, and we find a person who may be associated with that gang, we don't let them wear it to school," said Crowley.
Sawyer, 17, who is Caucasian, claims to have never heard of the Brown Mafia and insists he is not a gang member.
"It made me feel like crap because almost half of my clothes have brown on them," said Sawyer.
Both shirts were Christmas gifts, Sawyer said, adding that several other articles of clothing he got for Christmas are also brown.
"I can't wear my new clothes now," said Sawyer. "What's going to be next? Red, white and blue? Soon kids are going to be going to school wearing nothing because everything is gang."
Lowell High School Headmaster Bill Samaras said students are allowed to wear brown clothing unless it appears they are making a gang statement by donning the color. The policy is especially strict at the Alternative School, said Samaras, where many students have a history of disciplinary problems.
"We have a very strong position on gang apparel," said Samaras. "We're not talking about someone who innocently wears a color. When a color is worn in such a way to represent a gang, they're told to change their clothes or they're out of the school. It's of absolute zero tolerance in that school. They know what they're responsible for."
Motard said her son attends the Alternative School because he has ADHD and does better with smaller class sizes. She said he will continue to wear his brown sweatshirt to school. If he is sent home again, she plans to hire a lawyer.
"There goes my son's education for the day all because of a brown T-shirt and a brown sweatshirt," said Motard. "They stare at everybody's clothing instead of worrying about their education."
According to Akashian, another student was also sent home yesterday for wearing a brown and refusing to change into other clothing.
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"When we identify a color a gang is associated with, and we find a person who may be associated with that gang, we don't let them wear it to school," said Crowley.
Yet nowhere in the article did I read that he was confirmed or even alleged to be involved with a gang.
Have these administrators been to the mall lately? Everything in it for under 21s is f'in BROWN.
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Was reading the Daily News here in New York and came across a story about a Special Ed student being told by his principal that she was not gonna let him represent his school in a nationwide Spelling Bee because she felt Special Ed students would embarrass the school by getting eliminated early. So yet again, we have somebody, a principal who kids are supposed to look up to, presenting a horrible example. And we have kids learning intolerance in a place that is supposed to teach tolerance. I guess it is one of those do as I say, not what I do type deals.And then this will be the same principal who calls up parents to report that their child called a Special Ed student retarded or whatever. And this will be the same principal who insinuates that children are picking up this behavior from home.Oh, what a tangled web we weave.
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Hmmmmm...
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I hear there's a new gang out there, females-only. But instead of wearing a certain color or symbol set, this gang hides itself. All members wear undergarments called "panties".
Therefore, it is necessary for the safety of the school and its students for inspections to be made at the gate. Any females found wearing these undergarments will be... oh hell you finish this.
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At my jr high school we had to wear uniforms, blue and white. It was the only school around that had them it ws some kind of pilot program. They stopped it when i left tho.
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Well, it was a districtwide Spelling Bee, not a nationwide. Not that it matters of course.
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What if the Brown Mafia doesn't exist at all, except as a media hoax?
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What if the Brown Mafia doesn't exist at all, except as a media hoax?
Dont worry. By creating this kind of scare there will be lots of imitators.
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"Let it be said that no child within the vicinity of this school shall wear poop-tones."
This reminds me of that case which happened shortly after 9/11 (or was it the Iraq war?) where a student wore a political shirt critiquing the administration. He was asked to change his shirt, which he didn't, so he was sent home.
At CEDU, we weren't allowed to wear black. It was "too image-y". Once you got into the upper school, however, you could apply for your "black privileges."
High school is notorious for wanting to micromanage their students. I remember reading a story about a kid who got called into the principal's office because he was seen with a wad of cash. They thought he was selling drugs, but in reality, his friend owed him some money, and had paid him back that day. The principal demanded that he hand over the cash, but he wouldn't, because it was his money, so he got disciplined.
Then there was that other story about a kid getting into trouble because he shared his asthma inhaler with a friend of his who was having an attack, and she didn't have hers with her. She probably would have ended up having to go into the hospital if nobody had done anything, but the kid who lent her his inhaler got into trouble anyway. Something about "sharing drugs". The parents were outraged at the school's behavior.
And what is so wrong about taking all of your pokemon cards to school? Why the fuck should the teacher care if you have them? They got confiscated anyway. (Anyone remember that story?) I never understood the whole thing about confiscating kids' stuff. That shit is paid for. Are you going to reimburse the parents, teach?
A teacher once tried to take my walkman away, because we weren't supposed to be listening to them in the hallways. I turned to bolt, she grabbed me, I knocked her down and swore at her. Got an in-school suspension for it, but at least I got to keep it. :)
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And the six year old little girl who was suspended for having something in a baggy that 'looked like it might be pot'.
Or the kid (terrorist) who was expelled for bringing a 1" GI Joe gun to school. I think he was 6 too.
Insane culture we live in.
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Morality tale; Excellent vintage Thompson; As de dawg chases it's tail...
posted March 2, 2005 (May 17, 1965 issue)
We were talking across a pool table about the rash of publicity and how it had affected the Angel's activities. I was trying to explain to him that the bulk of the press in this country has such a vested interest in the status quo that it can't afford to do much honest probing at the roots, for fear of what they might find.
"Oh, I don't know," he said. "Of course I don't like to read all this bullshit because it brings the heat down on us, but since we got famous we've had more rich fags and sex-hungry women come looking for us that we ever had before. Hell, these days we have more action than we can handle."
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The ACLU has been successfully defending these students. There was a girl that folded a piece of computer paper into a shape resembling a gun and was expelled for violating the school's zero-tolerance on weapons rule. The ACLU won with the strategy that in no way could her paper replica be construed as a weapon.
Society really is going backwards and what I find disheartening is who the hypocrites are. They are my peers. I grew up in the 60s and 70s when society was becoming more, not less, permissive. I remember when both my junior and senor high schools had to eliminate their dress codes because parents and kids sued them using freedom of expression arguments.
The item that was most challenged in the dress code was that girls could not wear blue jeans. So girls started to wear jeans just like the boys. Oh my God! The world went straight to hell after that!
But I digress. What disturbs me is that the former hippies and activitists are the very ones that have turned ultra-conservative, angry, self-righteous, and want to lord it over everyone else. I know these people personally. I've known them all my life. We used to smoke pot together, drop acid, have underage sex and rant about government oppression and how endangered the earth was. Now these very same people deny global warming and think Bill O'Reilly is the bomb. They lament the 'liberal press' and talk about how liberals are ruining everything.
What happened? Did someone put something in the water that made these people angry and hateful? Why do I still hold to my values of a free and open society with lots of tolerance? I drink water, sometimes.
Oh. Wait. Epiphany! I hate Kool-Aid!
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But I digress. What disturbs me is that the former hippies and activitists are the very ones that have turned ultra-conservative, angry, self-righteous, and want to lord it over everyone else. I know these people personally. I've known them all my life. We used to smoke pot together, drop acid, have underage sex and rant about government oppression and how endangered the earth was. Now these very same people deny global warming and think Bill O'Reilly is the bomb. They lament the 'liberal press' and talk about how liberals are ruining everything.
Not sure if you've heard of him, Ant, but comedian Patton Oswalt does a great bit about this. Although I believe he talks more about how it's the children of hippie parents who, because of their upbringing, have become so uptight, that they overprotect their children and take the fun out of everything. Their parents' attempts at being cool when they were growing up turned them into completely uptight assholes.
He says "If I ever have a kid, I am going to be the most boring, uncool parent ever, to ensure that my kid turns out cool and normal. The minute I become a parent, I'm throwing out all of my old albums. You know what the only album is I will have in the house? Phil Collins, No Jacket Required. 'Hey, kiddo, you should check out this album, it's really rockin'.' And because of this, my kid will turn out cool."
"I wonder if I'll ever have enough money to be a republican?"
- Paula Poundstone
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Budding program parent. WTF is wrong with people? :roll: ::noway::
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/12/Hills ... afte.shtml (http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/12/Hillsborough/Boy__7__arrested_afte.shtml)
Boy, 7, arrested after throwing backpack
By REBECCA CATALANELLO and COLLEEN JENKINS
Published January 12, 2007
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TAMPA - A deputy arrested a 7-year-old boy at school Wednesday after the boy flung a backpack at an 11-year-old's head at a bus stop, authorities said.
The Hillsborough County deputy did not put the second- grader in handcuffs, but he put the boy into the back of a sheriff's cruiser outside Lopez Elementary School in Seffner after he investigated a complaint from the 11-year-old's mother.
Prosecutors say they had advised against arresting the boy. And the county's Juvenile Assessment Center wouldn't take the 7-year-old, so he was returned to school.
Authorities withheld the names of all the children involved.
The incident was part of an ongoing feud between neighborhood kids at a Seffner-area mobile home park, said sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter.
The most recent episode started when the 7-year-old urinated at the bus stop, Carter said. Other children began calling the boy names, and he eventually threw a backpack at the 11-year-old's head.
The 11-year-old did not appear to be injured, Carter said. And the children boarded the bus and went to school.
Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi described the backpack that hit the 11-year-old as light, being filled with papers.
But when the 11-year-old's mother heard about the incident, she called deputies and demanded that they press charges, Carter said.
Deputy Gary Craig was sent to check out the complaint. He contacted Bob Petschow, deputy chief of intake for the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office. Petschow told the deputy that there are many problems with charging a 7-year-old and advised him against arresting the child, said Bondi, the assistant state attorney.
"The deputy did anyway," Bondi said. "We explained to the deputy the competency issues with even attempting to charge a 7-year-old."
But Carter said the deputy's account is slightly different from what the State Attorney's Office says. According to Carter, the deputy talked to the 7-year-old's mother, who consented to her son's arrest.
"The mother said, 'Take him,' " Carter said.
The deputy went to Lopez Elementary, talked with witnesses and took the 7-year-old into custody. Carter said the boy showed no emotion as he was escorted out by a uniformed officer.
When Craig reached the Juvenile Assessment Center, the holding facility for children charged with crimes, the intake workers there refused to take him because of his age.
According to Carter, it wasn't until that point that Craig called the State Attorney's Office and was told to write a report but return the child to school.
The state attorney will now decide whether to charge the child with misdemeanor battery.
Carter said the Sheriff's Office is reviewing the discrepancies between Craig's account and Bondi's.
Asked whether Craig did the right thing, Carter pointed out that the victim's mother was insisting that charges be filed.
"Any arrest is a judgment call by the deputy," she said.
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Honestly, wtf is wrong with people???
http://www.strugglingteens.org/cgi-bin/ ... 001295;p=2 (http://www.strugglingteens.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=001295;p=2)
Liz,
I don't know how much knowing your son's medical/mental health history earlier would have changed the path he ultimately took. Unfortunately, there is only so much that medication and therapy can do for many of our kids.
Our son showed anger management problems at the age of 4 and symptoms of depression at 7.
We took him to many therapists and tried several medications at an early age, but none of that helped him in the long run. I suspect that addiction was an issue with his birth family. But even if I knew that ahead of time, I don't believe that we could have prevented his self-medicating with drugs.
A huge issue in our society is dealing with teenage drug use. Drug rehab simply doesn't work for them. It took 13 months at a tbs for our son to realize WHY he self-medicated and chose to make bad decisions. Will this be enough to prevent him from going back to using drugs to cope with his issues? Only time will tell. Part of it is that they eventually mature on their own. One of the keys is to keep them safe while they figure things out.
Our parenting style did not help our son and contributed to his issues. But after hearing stories of others who have multiple biological children, raised with the same rules, that turned out differently leads me to the conclusion we were not at fault for our children's decisions. Knowing that, has helped me to let go of some of the guilt that I have felt over the past 18 years. Also, being told by our son that he needed to go to a program has also been helpful. He has learned to take responsibility for many of his actions.Of course, he still likes to blame others when things go wrong, but to some extent, don't we all? We try our best, and hope that is enough.
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http://beta.prestontoday.net/ViewArticl ... id=1967323 (http://beta.prestontoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=73&articleid=1967323)
Schools in favour of fingerprinting pupils
Schools in Preston have welcomed the idea of fingerprinting pupils at lunchtime.
Lancashire County Commercial Services are looking to take the project to schools across Lancashire following successful trials in West Lancashire.
It works by allowing pupils to pay for their lunches by putting their fingers on a fingerprint reader instead of carrying cash round with them.
The healthier the food they choose the more points they receive.
Human rights campaigners criticised the move, saying it was "totally unnecessary" to fingerprint children to get them to eat healthily.
But schools today said the system would work "brilliantly." Several are vowing to investigate taking up the systems in the near future.
Liz Laverty, headteacher at Walton-le-Dale Arts College,said: "We are investigating this fingerprint technology and we are hoping to move to a cashless system in the future.It can also give a print out to allow parents to see what their children are eating."
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Very curious...
My g'son's school accomplishes all those things with a simple account.
No fingerprinting necessary.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2084 ... 12.article (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/208412,CST-NWS-red12.article)
Board gives girl green light for tinted hair
January 12, 2007
The Chicago Heights principal who told a student with red hair highlights to go home has been overruled.
The school board that oversees Sandridge School voted Wednesday night to allow dyed hair -- providing it's not a distraction.
And 13-year-old Holli Boam was allowed to return to school Thursday without having to get rid of the highlights.
"I'm good with it," said Principal Leroy Coleman of the school board's decision.
Coleman said he was simply trying to be "proactive" and avoid taunting from other students when he made the decision that Holli should go home and rinse out the hair dye.
Stefano Esposito
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I was thrown out out of junior high.....twice.
I am stil not exactly sure why, no one is I think. My mother and principals met with the Superintendent of my district and he actually walked out of the meeting, telling them they were wasting his time when they couldnt even provide a list of what I had done wrong......they just didnt LIKE me. I held the record for being in In School Suspension some 23 times in a semester, all three day stints....each and every one for not attending detention that was given for being less than a minute tardy to class.
I liked being in Suspension, I could do a whole days school work in three hours and then read or listen to music. My grades were phenomenal, and I even won an award for being the most athletic girl in my grade. I just hated class. They didnt know what to do with me, so they tried to make me a behavioral problem. I was randomly drug searched...tested for developmental problems, etc.