Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones
Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin’
In fac’, I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood
Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball
And I loved that basketball
I took that basketball with me everywhere I went
That basketball was like a basketball to me
I even put that basketball underneath my pillow
Maybe that’s why I can’t sleep at night
I need help, ladies and gentlemens
I need someone to stand beside me
I need, I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life
Someone I can pass to
This kid's mom needs to start working on her “he was a good boy who never did anything wrong” act for the day he get shot or sent to prison.
Obama’s son I suppose ?
Gosh, I don’t know about this. I wonder how much good even the excellent teachers are doing when they show up when a situation is out of control. It’s teaching good kids to accept bad behavior.
The site seems to have pulled this story. For blaspheming Saint Trayvon?
While I agree that parenting is part of the problem, it by no means is the entirety of the problem.
These schools allow these little assho—s to do as they please, afraid to challenge them and make them tow the line. Moral relativism is what it’s all about at the core of it.
If these parents lower the boom on the kid at home, the schools will report them to a state agency.
The schools are sold on the idea there is no right or wrong. If little Trayvon “likes himself” that is all we can hope for.
Then one of these kids flashes and all of a sudden it’s the parent’s fault. Hey, aren’t those the same parents these schools think are unfit to raise kids by themselves anyway? Why yes..., yes they are.
In this instance, one of their own is the victim. Generally it isn’t. With no morals these kids inflict pain on the community at large. Nothing is out of bounds until the kid kills someone and all of a sudden someone says “NO” for the first time in the kid’s life.
LOL, so now the schools want to blame the parents.
Man these organizations are screwed up.
I know a similarly dedicated woman who was, very likely, deliberately hit in an eye with a baseball. Years later, she still has health problems because of it. So sad, when someone has to endure pain for doing what they love to do and serve children.
This is not in the original story. Please mark your editorial remarks as such.
Yea right. We need more 62 year old human punching bags for poor oppressed youths.
For every good teacher there are two useless slugs drawing a paycheck greater than anything they would get in another industry. Until teachers as a profession decouple themselves from unions and tenure based contracts I have little sympathy for the working conditions.
How do you get to the article? After clicking the link, I get an advert. Exiting from the advert., I get redirected to a completely different article.
nothing in this article proves she’s a good teacher....
Yes it does matter what race they are, just ask the kids in the Minnestoa public schools. White kids automatically get punished for infractions, black kids have to have their cases “reviewed” by a supervisor before they can be punished.
In my opinion, all teachers should be Marines, and corporal punishment should be allowed. When the teacher punches back, the future Saint Trayvon’s of the world will fly straight.
Corrected designation.
Exactly how many kids show up hungry? I've heard this claim for many years now.