Teen accused of stealing 65-cent carton of milk at middle school to face trial
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Anonymous
The option of not going to court probably involved him admitting guilt and being punished in some way. If he isn't guilty why should he admit guilt and be be punished? He doesn't even attend middle school anymore. Why is the district still pressing charges against him for milk the district gets for free? No way some middle class or affluent student does the same thing and has to go to court. |
Anonymous
His mother is either backing him or making him go to court for this. Taking a stand on pricniple is a valuable life skill, backing down and apologizing to smoothe things over is another valuable life skill. The school sounds somewhat unreasonable here, but they are the authorities. If he were to act like a responsible student (soon he'll be driving, not much longer until he's an adult), apologize rather than escalate, then he wouldn't need to go to court, in front of a judge. |
Anonymous
The article is implying that this is his thinking -- that he is being treated unfairly because of his race/SES. Alternatively, middle class or affluent students wouldn't escalate such a situation into a court trial and article in the Washington Post. |
Anonymous
I'm waiting for the tweet "Hey, Ryan, cool milk carton. Want to come drink it at the White House?" |
Anonymous
| He's just a punk that doesn't believe in consequences. At the least, he cut in line and took it without permission, he got called out and could have ended it with an oops..... sorry... but he want's to escalate and argue that consequences shouldn't apply to him, even saying sorry was too much to ask him he seems to feel. No sympathy. |
Anonymous
| Entitled kid. All he had to do was very calmly explain the situation. He chose to escalate it. That choice has a consequence. |
Anonymous
NP here. I worked in a high school with gangs, etc and I didn't tolerate nonsense. PP, you don't get it. A great teacher or administrator can *often* get a kid to make the right choice. They also make it look easy, but it takes great skill. If the system is going to put a police officer into a school, that police officer's skill level needs to be just as high. |
Anonymous
| Why on earth the police involved inside of a school for things at this level? |
Anonymous
Seriously. Ridiculous on the part of the school. |
Anonymous
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Excuse me. He had the right to a free carton of milk, he went to take it rapidly without waiting in line because otherwise he wouldn't have time to eat, which makes perfect sense, and people are mad about this? His cooperation or non-cooperation afterward has no bearing on the fact that he did nothing wrong. The school was probably trying to pin him down for something because he's a problem kid, BUT - he did nothing wrong this time. In what crazy world are we living in? The kid should be compensated by the school. |
Anonymous
Ryan's not an historically oppressed minority, so that won't happen. |
Anonymous
Um, the article says he's black so it might happen after all. |
Anonymous
Poor reading comprehension and stupidity seems to be rampant in yours.... |
Anonymous
Then charge him with crime he committed, whatever that is. He did not steal the milk. And I daresay if this was your kid you would not be so eager to see a trial happen. |
Anonymous
+1 tax payer money hard at work. |