February 21, 2018

"Madison high schools are erupting in chaos. Three high schools in one day, Monday, February 19, over the noon hour."

"Bad enough for the cop on duty to call for reinforcements. Police responded to melees at Madison West, Madison Memorial, and Madison East high schools. From what we can determine, the misbehaving students were not peacefully protesting for gun control, social justice, or better cafeteria food. They were just fighting."

Writes David Blaska, with a "barebones" report from the police chief, a note to the parents from the West High School principal, and a letter from an unnamed parent. Excerpt from the parent's letter:
My son said this was a very loud and aggressive happening involving a subset of the student population that he cannot help but notice and comment has also coincidentally been involved in all other altercations (including not just “verbal altercations” but also actual physical assaults and various melees including ones with torn-off hair strewn on the floor and a vast crowd of students teeming at the edges, filled with adrenaline, watching and getting thrills from the witnessing thereof).

… These altercations are seen as the NORM because students engaging in them are coddled and the peaceful majority of students are the real victims— living in constant awareness that for reasons unknown to them and that can and will never make sense to them — West High and the District are engaging in experimental, ill-advised, and dangerous tactics to essentially bend over backwards to not “offend” the OFFENDERS.

My son is also aware of and afraid, as are most students, that at any given moment, the PARENTS of the violent pupils can and HAVE enjoined the fray themselves, coming upon school grounds....
Read the whole thing.

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Strelnikov said...

A "Subset of the student population", eh?

Clear enough.

Jupiter said...

"There are a number of people who believe that the reason we have never seen Obama's original birth certificate is because the line for father was either blank, or said Frank Davis, who was a Black Communist who worked in Chicago before he moved to Hawaii and became a family friend of Barack's grandparents."

You can find the nude photographs that Frank Marshall Davis took of Barack Obama's mother on the internet. I have noted a tendency for one thing to lead to another in such situations. I doubt his name is on the birth certificate. A hospital has no way of telling who a baby's father is except to ask his mother, and she had already lined up Barack Obama Sr. for that role by the time Barky was born. But he didn't stick around for long.

320Busdriver said...

Maybe try this

What could go wrong?

SMURF said...

I'm writing this Friday morning 2/23. I Bing-ed,not Googled, "Madison WI high school disturbances" and got no links referring to anything later than 2014. Powell's memory hole hard at work ?

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