Six Year Old to Jail
February 27, 2010 by Dan
Filed under Parent's Advice
By Dr. Laura
Feb. 22, 2010
In Port St. Lucie, Florida recently, a six year old was handcuffed (actually, one handcuff was put over both hands – she was a little girl), and hauled off to a mental facility.
The parents were all hysterical and angry that their “little baby” was treated this way.
The mother, who works in day care, said “There is absolutely nothing wrong with my child.” Her father said that what happened to his daughter was “just wrong.”
The school contacted this little girl’s parents several times about setting up a meeting to discuss her violent behavior in the classroom, but they never showed up. Hmmmm.
Here’s what happened on that particular day:
The kid had yet another tantrum in the classroom after the teacher simply asked her to do something, and the girl was taken to the principal’s office.
The principal, 8 months pregnant, endured the kid yelling, throwing things, kicking the wall, throwing a calculator, electric pencil sharpener, telephone, container of writing utensils and everything else on the desk.
The kid then physically attacked the pregnant principal, who called the police.
In my opinion, the police and the principal did exactly the right thing. Leave it up to the medical authorities to determine whether this girl is being extremely poorly parented or in need of mental health treatment.
There are those who cry over how little this girl is and wring their hands and say that there must have been some other way.
No, there wasn’t. The parents did not take responsibility, and their shame was delivered as arrogance as they sought sympathy (and probably a lawsuit).
The school is supposed to be a safe place. This girl was, and is, a threat to other students, the faculty, and herself. I stand behind the school, the teacher, and the principal.
I wish we could arrest the parents for negligence in letting their daughter’s behavior get this far.
Source: Dr. Laura
Editor’s Note: We would like to know what you think. dan@youngchronicle.com
KIDS: The Pledge of Allegiance
Pledge of Allegiance under Assault by ACLU in Maryland, & Congressman shows disrespect.
By A.J. Plourde
YC/Staff
Feb. 24, 2010
Editor’s Note: The staff at the Chronicle, would like to welcome another writer A.J. Plourde to our staff.
A.J. will be writing columns in both Gold Coast Chronicle, and in our children site Young Chronicle News & Reviews.
We hope you will enjoy his passion and commitment to this country like millions of other Americans who are disappointed in the direction this Administration is pursuing to lead us.
We would like to know what you think. dan@youngchronicle.com
Fox news reported today two different stories which shows exactly why Americans need to examine where we are, and where we want to go as a nation.
It is a sad day indeed when loyalty to this country through the “Pledge of Allegiance” to our nation is challenged and disrespected in a school and in a meeting attended by a Congressman.
Although the two stories happened on either side of the country, they both demonstrate that we here in America have surely lost our way. President Ronald Reagan would be disheartened to hear of such a thing.
The question is why is there so much disrespect being shown to our country and its heritage via the confrontations over the “Pledge of Allegiance” and the words. Not long ago, a single person almost succeeded in his attempt to remove the word “God” from our pledge because he was an Atheist.
The courts finally dismissed his case, but not at the beginning. He made it as far as the appeals process, when he shouldn’t have made it past the first court.
The fox stories covered the ACLU issuing a complaint to the Montgomery County Public Schools Board, over the punishment of a girl in middle school refusing to stand up during “The Pledge of Allegiance”.
Her punishment that the ACLU is challenging is standing in the hallway. The ACLU of Maryland is saying, “The U.S. Constitution and the State Law protect the right of students not to participate in reciting the pledge.”
Where does it say in the U S Constitution anything at all about this? Can you believe it the School Board agreed with the ACLU?
Boy does that raise questions about the quality and integrity of the education processes in Germantown schools in Maryland. Whoa!! Since when don’t the students in this nation as minors have to comply with school regulations?
If the entire class is participating and it is a school practice why are we giving students who are minors, an option they should not have. What happened to adult authority and responsibility for the minor while in their charge?
Is not a minor supposed to obey regulations any longer and show respect for their country.
Whoa!! When did that rule between adults and minors change? Did minors suddenly become accountable and relieve the adults of their responsibility to them. I don’t recall seeing that item in the news.
When a child in school refuses to stand for a salute to their country, what kind of citizen is this person potentially going to be? I fear that if the School Board doesn’t recant their statement, then there is serious potential for loss of control in the classroom.
The School Board is wrong to side with the ACLU, and parents should unite in coming out strong against this interference by the ACLU over minor’s rights.
What do you think?
Should children be allowed not to stand and say the “Pledge of Allegiance” when so many of our citizens have given the supreme sacrifice so they could remain free?
Red Skelton, an American Icon, and a great and wonderful comedian, has a great presentation on the “Pledge of Allegiance”. Perhaps the young student who did this should be required to view it, in fact the whole class might get something out it.
Here is where you can find this beautiful lesson in Audio and Child’s Video Version.
Now the other story involved a Congressman at a meeting and a person in the audience requesting the “Pledge of Allegiance” be said before they proceeded further into the meeting.
The meeting was just starting at that point, and when the Congressman heard that request, he was caught laughing at the suggestion (see the video).
Here again, this was a public meeting where a citizen spoke up and requested the “Pledge of Allegiance” and volunteered to lead it.
It is important for all citizens of this nation to understand that the “Pledge of Allegiance” said before the flag means something and is not just words. We as citizens need to be ready to defend our nation against all its enemies within or outside of its borders.
We must be ready to preserve Liberty and Freedom for the generations that will come after us. We should be proud and stand tall and straight when we say our “Pledge of Allegiance” to our country as it is a statement about each of us as citizens showing our pride in our country and its heritage.
The Pledge of Allegiance should never be taken lightly and no one should ever laugh at the suggestion of saying it. The Congressman owes an apology for his action to the community that he represents.
Here is something for all of us to remember a quote by President Ronald Reagan:
“Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children through our blood stream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children’s children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.”
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Hero of the Week – Army Vet Robin De Haven
By Dan Samaria
Publisher/YC
Feb. 19, 2010
Editor’s Note: Each Week we will be Honoring people or groups that are making a difference in helping others especially during this tough times in America.
When we as Americans are put through a test, we come out in flying colors on the other side.
We would like to know what you think. And if you know someone or group that we can Honor. You can contact us at dan@youngchronicle.com
This week we will be honoring: Robin De Haven. Here is his story:
By KELLEY SHANNON and JAY ROOT
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Robin De Haven was driving his truck to another job for the glass company he works for when he saw something that didn’t look right – a small plane, flying extremely low over a heavily congested area of Austin.
The 28-year-old Iraq war veteran recalled Friday that he then saw black smoke billowing from the office building and rushed to the scene. A pilot furious at the Internal Revenue Service had slammed his plane into the building Thursday where about 200 IRS employees worked, killing himself and one other person.
De Haven said when he pulled up to the burning building he saw five people peeking through the broken glass. He
hurled his 17-foot ladder off his truck and onto the building, helping to rescue them as thick smoke poured into the air.
“I wanted to go help,” De Haven told The Associated Press. “I thought, ‘I’m going to go ahead and do it.’ I thought my boss would understand.”
De Haven retold his rescue efforts outside the hulking black-glass Echelon 1 building Friday as police and fire investigators picked through the wreckage. Arson crews also inspected pilot Andrew Joseph Stack III’s red brick home about six miles away – which Stack apparently set on fire before taking off in his plane Thursday morning.
Stack posted an angry anti-government manifesto on a Web site registered to him before he flew a single engine plane into the building.
Stack, 53, apparently targeted the building’s lower floors, which housed the IRS offices. U.S. law enforcement officials said they were trying to determine if Stack put anything in the plane to worsen the damage caused by the impact and fire.
One law enforcement official also said investigators were trying to find out if a marital dispute precipitated Stack’s angry suicide mission. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.
Standing across the street from Stack’s fire-damaged home, a representative for Stack’s wife, Sheryl Stack, issued a statement on her behalf Friday. Rayford Walker said he had been asked by the family to distribute the statement.
“Words cannot adequately express my sorrow or the sympathy I feel for everyone affected by this unimaginable tragedy,” the statement read. “Due to the ongoing investigation related to this tragedy, I feel it is best to make no comment beyond this statement and to not respond to questions of any nature.”
Stack took off from an airport in Georgetown, about 30 miles from Austin, and flew low over the Austin skyline before plowing into the side of the building just before 10 a.m. Thursday. Flames shot from the building, windows exploded and terrified workers rushed to get out.
Emergency crews originally said people were missing inside the building, but later recovered two bodies. Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Palmer Buck declined to discuss the identities of those found, but said authorities had now “accounted for everybody.”
Thirteen people were injured, authorities said. One man remained hospitalized Friday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio with burns and was in stable condition, the hospital said.
Authorities have credited numerous stories of heroism for keeping the death toll so low in the crash. A glass workers union said Friday it wants to honor De Haven in Washington, D.C., and the company he works for said it has been flooded with phone calls and e-mails calling him a hero.
De Haven said after he extended his ladder and climbed to the second floor, he realized his ladder was unsteady and he couldn’t help people down on it. So, he said he climbed inside the building and helped find a better escape route.
Once inside, he found four men and a woman were trapped inside and smoke was seeping in from the hallway.
De Haven and another man in the office broke open a window with an iron rod and made their way to a lower ledge where the ladder would be more secure.
“I don’t feel like a hero,” he said. “I was just trying to help,” he said.
Some who knew Stack said he offered little hint of his anger toward the government and the IRS.
“He didn’t rant about anything,” said Pam Parker, an Austin attorney whose husband played in a band with Stack. “He wasn’t obsessed with the government or any of that. … Not a loner, not off in a corner. He had friends and conversation and ordinary stuff.”
But in his self-described “rant,” Stack fumed about the IRS and wrote, “Nothing changes unless there is a body count.” Stack also railed against “big brother,” the Catholic Church, the “unthinkable atrocities” committed by big business and the governments bailouts that followed.
In the note, signed “Joe Stack (1956-2010)” and dated Thursday, he said he slowly came to the conclusion that “violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.”
Stack’s father-in-law, Jack Cook, told The New York Times that he knew Stack had a “hang-up” with the IRS and his marriage had been strained. His wife had taken her daughter to a hotel to get away from Stack on Wednesday night, the newspaper said.
A few hundred people had joined Facebook pages by Friday honoring Stack, including one that said while it didn’t agree with Stack’s actions, it sympathizes with his thoughts on the government.
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Editor’s Note: Associated Press writers April Castro and Jim Vertuno in Austin; Michelle Roberts in Georgetown; Linda Stewart Ball, Danny Robbins, Jeff Carlton and John McFarland in Dallas; Devlin Barrett in Washington contributed to this report, along with the AP News Research Center.