OT Prayers for little boy

Thanks to you all. School and police dept. had meeting. School said maybe they got the wrong kid(surprise) sort of a little misunderstanding. He has been exonerated of any charges. Don't think he wants to go to school there anymore. Maybe look for another place by September. Thanks again for all help.

Kid needs to learn ASAP that life ain't always fair, that the good guys don't always win, and that the guilty almost always go unpunished. While it's nice to teach kids that the strong don't always win, they need to know that more often than not, might DOES make right. And the sooner they learn these facts of life, and how to adapt to them, the better. Today, there are far too many folks in America who believe in fairness and justice; they're usually [incorrectly] called liberals, and then ridiculed throughout the land. If you can teach the kid anything, teach him, "If you don't have the muscle, you'd better learn to run some kinda scam or hustle." Otherwise he'll turn out to be just another loser...like me.

Glad to hear he was exonerated. Hopefully, you and he can spend a good bit of time together this summer. I would also try to get him involved in a church youth group if he isn't already. Best wishes to both of you.

Wow. Buzz, ya oughta see yer doc for depression. I know I felt pretty low when I first had to take the b/p meds.

Funny how the school caves when they have cops looking into things. Or parents start getting in their face.

I got a call from my(9th grade) sons school saying they was going to suspend him for the rest of the school year for carrying drug paraphernalia. They said he had a crack pipe on him and was going to call the cops to report it too. When I went down there to see what it was all about he had the male end of a air hose quick connect that was screwed into a elbow. That morning he was in the garage and I had this thing on the floor and he picked it up to put away but dropped it in his pocket and forgot about it.

It was so obvious what it was and it definitely never had anything burnt in it. I jumped down the principals throat and told him he was a moron for making such threats and if he kept it up I'd be talking to the district superintendent. He allowed as how maybe he over reacted and dropped the whole thing.

We had a few more run ins like this for stupid stuff but he never made anything stick. His senior year the principal took away my sons cell phone and was going to keep it till the end of the year. I asked why he took it away. He said they are not allowed in school. The school hand book said they were not to be on during class. Principal wasn't going to give it up event though it was between classes and it wasn't even on. I once again had to get in his face and tell him my son WILL have his phone returned and will carry it in school. What if there was a school shooting I wanted him able to call 911 or home to let us know. The guy finally relented and returned the phone.

Sorry I got a bit off track but this unfair stupid school stuff just burns me. Hope your boy has a better rest of year.

Children can be very cruel. I was crippled when I was young, wore leg braces for several years. Kids would knock me down, so they could watch me crawl on my belly to something so I could stand myself up. I grew up to be a very angry and very mean young man. I had a lot of fights, and hurt several guys. It took until my mid 20's for me to calm down. My grandfather was one of the best influences on my life, he gave me a space of peace, it probably saved me. If it hadn't been for his influence, I'd be dead or in prison. Don't let go.

There's no depression in MY life...heck, since I turned off my TV, there's not even a recession! Everyone still has their jobs, pay raises are the order of the day, everyone's 401(k) is growing like a weed, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

Sounds like your Grandson will be better off in another school. I spent my senior year carrying a hawkbill knife to fight off the roaming bands of minority athletes, that had the run of the school.. That high school has claimed the national football championship for a few years, but I have no respect for the school, administration, or staff..

Good to hear it, seems a lot of earlier generations I know of (parents to be precise) never gave a rats @ss about these situations, and the kids who had to deal with this crap, were left to fend for themselves, I know it all to well, no other siblings, brothers, broken up family etc., just had to go it alone, and deal with it. It can be a genuinely rotten thing sometimes.

Not every kid is going to do well with something like this, it can be real hard on a kid, and at that age, aren't you just supposed to be a kid ??? I have a penchant anger towards this crap too, and even today, I'd stop at nothing to set a situation like this straight, jerks like these rob kids of an irreplaceable time of their life. It's an adults responsibility to look after those young ones when it comes to this.

Somewhere back in my youth, while wearing a military school JROTC uniform, there were times that I had to take public transportation through the nearby city to get home, which meant transferring buses, walking etc., you were not too cool having to wear that uniform, learned to bring a change of clothes real fast. Myself and a friend walked through a bad neighborhood, (whites in a black neighborhood) damned trolls came out and we had to fight our way out and run, while a mob gathered, then chased us, throwing bricks, I dropped a few dollars out of my pocket, quickly went back to pick it up on the street corner, a brick landed by my head, and I could see 30-40 blacks (no lie here) with sticks and weapons running down the alley by the bus garage, we were darned lucky my friends grandmother lived on 8th street, and was home, they followed us right to the door, she backed em off with a 12 gauge, and if that was not enough, the hells angels owned a building next to her, they were friends/neighbors, and took no crap. To this day, I can't imagine what would have happened if she was not home, and the police officer that arrived soon after sure treated us nice, he knew the deal and what could have happened. Not an easy thing to deal with as a youth, all that just to get home from school if you played sports or other extra curricular activities, no late bus, you were on your own and sometimes it was a real lonely situation.

Growing up can be tough and you can't always be there to protect them. My daughter was always in a Christian school. She was about 8, her mother died when she was 7, came home from school one day and told me that there was this new girl in school that wanted to fight with her what should she do. I told her either learn to take the abuse or fight back. This is a street fight no rules use everything you have or that you can pick up and you might even lose but she wont want any more of you. Several days went by so I finally asked what happened she says "she was standing in a group when this girl started picking on her so she backed up and ran at her and hit her with both fists in the chest and knocked her flat on the ground and you know Daddy now that girl wants to be my friend." She is tough even played rugby all through College. You are still in our prayers.
Ron

Glad to hear it. Now we get to pray again to say thanks.