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To: tejek who wrote (281128)	3/21/2006 6:09:52 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572885

snopes.com They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father? People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' — or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. We cannot blame the white people any longer.

To: tejek who wrote (281128)	3/21/2006 11:15:06 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572885

RE: "but I really think its the parents mostly" I agree. Can a parent take the day off of work so s/he can help his child adjust to a new situation? RE: "They all looked at me in shock.....as if I had a say in the matter. <g>" Good for you! Check this out Tejek, this is really sad: " In the United States, nearly 3.3 million people age 19 and younger used an ADHD drug in 2005, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc." news.yahoo.com They should make this drug illegal unless there are extraordinary conditions. You know, I worked with mentally ill children during the summer once, and those that were heavily on drugs simply had their drugs interfere with their ability to learn. Some of these children were so doped up. Some of their caretakers would drug them up so they would be "easy" to take care of - like drugged up sheep - their caretakers couldn't handle the challenge. I had one child that wasn't doped up (she lived in a better home) and she would try to bang her head against the wall due to her illness, and I would simply put her desk away from the wall and if she tried to bang her head on the desktop my hand was always faster than her head and I would put my hand between her head and the desk and gently say to her, "please don't hurt my hand." She would never hurt me, only herself. So she would never bang her head if my hand was there. Little by little, I tried to help her understand that her head has value like my hand. Towards the end of school, she didn't bang her head like she tried to in the beginning partly because of the training but also because I could "sense" when she was about to do it before she even moved, and I tried to deal with that. That sense was based upon the fact you could detect something wasn't going right for her that day. Also, after the first day, I simply put something with padding (i.e. magazine) on her desk that would protect her head if she did try to bang her head - and the magazine was a better thing to have her peel than banging her head. I don't think we should drug children up, but instead should change their environment for them until they learn to adjust/cope. I got an award from that job and its one that I'm probably most proud of. Drugs should not be given to children. They weren't given to children in the 70s unless for extreme situations, so there's no reason to give them to children now. These children will not learn to cope. Drugs prohibit the ability to learn and grow. It should be outlawed, with the exception of extreme cases. Regards, Amy J