Yesterday, the St. Petersburg, FL Police Department issued a report concerning the allegations that Officers Mark Williams and Nicholas Lazzari were guilty of “Inefficiency / Conduct Unbecoming an Employee [CUBE]” when they handcuffed five-year-old Ja’eisha Scott at Fairmount Elementary School last March in St. Petersburg. While the resultant change in police and school policy concerning [...]
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Studs On Pete
This is a little dated, but it’s good and Technorati says hardly anyone blogged it. For all my fellow red diaper babies: Pete Seeger Is 86 by STUDS TERKEL It is hard to think of Pete Seeger as an elderly gaffer, because the boy in him, the light, remains undimmed. It was sixty-five years ago [...]
Good Stuff From The Comments
• After I blogged my friend Dana’s memoir piece on her 1999 trip to Auchwitz, she commented to send me over to the website of Peter Cunningham, the photographer whose photo of Dana appears in her article. Peter has spent years photographing musicians and there is a nice link on his site to those pictures. [...]
America vs. Its Young
Youngest Students Most Likely to Be Expelled Preschoolers’ Self-Esteem at Risk, Study Says By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 17, 2005; Page A02 Preschools are expelling youngsters at three times the rate of public schools, according to a nationwide study by Yale researchers, prompting concerns that children are being set up for [...]
Block Artist
Speaking of children, my two year old has been doing wonderful things with blocks.
On A Related Note: Ethics of Research on States’ “Wards”
While I’m touching upon issues relating to children in foster care, I should mention Yvette’s recent post at Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
Dahveed’s Voice and Vision: Their past – Our Future – Our Children
Dahveed’s blog is an interesting and useful site that focuses on advocacy issues for children, children of color and foster children in particular. Dhaveed aggregates news items in this area and has a good set of links for information and advocacy resources. Dahveed also has a related website, with the same name as his blog, [...]
And So Should This Comment From Sam Friedman
I sent one of my posts on Ja’eisha Scott to the Civil Rights Movement veterans list-serve that I’m on, and Sam Friedman wrote back with the following: I think that it might be useful to tell a story here from my life. Shortly after I began kindergarden in 1947 in school-segregated Washington, DC, as a [...]
This Ought To Be Part Of Discussions Of The Ja’eisha Scott Case
You know, when they start saying knee-jerk stuff about how the problem is Inga Akins’ parenting of Ja’eisha. Tying such dire predictions of social decay to divorce and single motherhood seemed credible in the 1970s and 1980s. But a funny thing happened in the 1990s: Almost every negative social trend tracked by the census, the [...]
Why Haven’t They Handcuffed Jennifer Wilbanks And Thrown Her In Jail Already??
If the cops don’t teach her lesson now, at age 24, by age 30 she’ll be knocking off banks and engaged in prostitution. Mark my words…
Stop The Schoolhouse To Jailhouse Track
Between 1992 and 2002, nationwide violent crimes at schools against students aged 12 to18 dropped by 50%. Between 1994 and 2002, the youth arrest rate for violent crimes has declined 47% nationally. From 1974 to 2000, the number of students suspended out-of-school increased from 1.7 million to 3.1 million. Research conducted over the past five [...]
A Couple Of Good Articles On The Criminalization Of Ja’eisha Scott
Even 5-Year-Olds Have Civil Rights By Lester Kenyatta Spence*, AOL BlackVoices columnist I still don’t see how someone can agree with what happened in Florida just because teachers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. But people all over the country are agreeing, and many of them are black people. Black people who [...]
A Little Comparative Analysis From Blackwell Raines
Blackwell Raines left another good comment on Monday, relating the Ja’eisha Scott story to the Jennifer Wilbanks story. [T]he great charters–Constitution, Bill of Rights–of U.S. democracy can’t just be real and consequential for some, and mere half-remembered school history for others. A basic premise in all the talk of government is the dignity of personhood. [...]
And Then There’s That Special Genre Of Purposeful Abuse By Educators
The latest one I’ve heard about was in Queens, NY (via Laurence at Blogging While Black )
So, Yes, It’s Not Only Florida
Florida has a particularly abysmal record when it comes to criminalizing small children, but the problem is actually a national epidemic. In the last couple of years, there have been a number of other stories about children under twelve being handcuffed. This list is just what I culled quickly from Zero Intelligence, a group blog [...]
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