Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

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What % of those kids were assholes?

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asshole doesn’t mean criminal

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I’m just saying… you never had a kid in class that was years older then everyone else, not doing shit, disrupting class all the time, getting violent and ending up in jail for attempt murder just after leaving school? I had. I wish there was a way to get him out of school earlier. I would be a better environment for everyone. But there wasn’t so they had to deal with him till he was 18 yo. Then on the other hand if you let teachers kick kids out they will get lazy and start locking up children for anything like in Texas.

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Do you know what solitary confinement is? It’s putting someone in a cell, likely without furniture, for lengthy periods of time (discounting an hour of exercise by themselves). The light never turns off. There is absolutely no stimulation whatsoever allowed. Other prisoners yell through the air ducts in the hopes that someone will yell back.

That environment is torture for an adult. This is a 10-year-old child.

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So, to be clear, you support prison and solitary confinement for preteens?

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Are you for real? I’m seriously asking, because if you are, you need help.

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Not in elementary school

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56 points

If being an asshole was illegal Texas would be a prison.

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9 points

They’re working on it…

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2 points

Texas. The new Australia.

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32 points

wtf is wrong with you?

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Were you never an asshole as a kid? It’s part of growing up. We work to make them better, but arresting them does nothing worthwhile.

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  1. Kids are kids. Asshole parents raise asshole adults.
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76 arrests of elementary students? Does it really matter? I have a hard time believing any arrest is appropriate for that age

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Shouldn’t matter. You don’t throw kids in jail just because they are assholes.

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5 points

You’re making up 110% of them

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