But what's been going on lately in Champaign-Urbana schools...damn. From Tuesday's News-Gazette:
CHAMPAIGN - Five girls were arrested on juvenile charges of mob action after a fight at a school bus stop Monday.These are girls engaging in mob action. Middle-school girls. In Champaign-Urbana. Stuff like this is way beyond anything that makes sense.
Champaign police Detective Nate Rath said there had been an altercation at Jefferson Middle School involving some girls earlier in the day. That dispute carried over to a bus stop on West Springfield Avenue near Country Fair Shopping Center about 3 p.m. Monday, he said.
"One of the girls involved in the earlier altercation and some of her friends went after another girl," Rath said.
The girl who was attacked was not seriously injured, Rath said.
Five girls, ages 11 to 14, were arrested on juvenile charges of mob action and four of them also were arrested for aggravated battery, he said.
All five were taken to the Champaign County Youth Detention Center, where they were briefly detained and released to their parents.
It used to be that the girls were the peacemakers, those who actually DID make sense. Or at least they had the sense not to engage in public 'mob action.' And this isn't the first incident lately.
The incident was the latest in a series of confrontations involving Champaign school students, including altercations that carried over to fights off school properties.Equality is a good thing, Equally stupid isn't.
In the past month, there have been incidents when a fight involving several students at Champaign Central resulted in that school being locked down, and another fight at a park near Columbia Center also resulted in that school being locked down as one student returned to the building for safety.
Have we become such a violent, reactive society that this is the only way young people feel they can solve their problems? Is it that pathetic? Who is in charge of these jerks? Is that what they're being taught? Are they being taught anything? How pervasive is this type of reaactionary ignorance?
I simply cannot understand this type of action.
And so it goes.
3 comments:
About a year or so ago, I was meeting with my son and a Urbana High School guidance counsler, setting up my son's future courses. After he took a call, he mentioned it was about some girls fighting. Then he said, nowdays it's the girls that get into fights not the boys, the boys are able to settle things. That really amazed me, times have changed.
The other problem is that the High Schools have an "open campus" where the brats can leave the school grounds and come and go as they please during lunch periods or study halls. Doesn't that kind of add fuel to the fire?
Matt, I absolutely agree. And students actually believe that an open campus is a right they're entitled to. In fact, students believe a lot of things are rights which actually are privileges, privileges that can and in many cases should be removed until earned.
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