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       Saturday, April 08, 2006

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Prosecuting an 11 Year Old "Racist"

We all know that the schools have gone limp on discipline these days. But kids need discipline on some occasionss. So what to do? The British solution seems to be to take them to court and get the court to discipline them!! So we had recently the case of an 11 year-old boy in Manchester (should that be Personchester?) who called one of his fellow students "Paki, nigger and Bin Laden". I guess it was racist but, more to the point, it was abusive and schools have a reasonable duty to keep abuse between students within some sort of bounds. And no doubt the school did reprimand the boy, which should have ended the matter.

But with the total lack of balance and proportion that is characteristic of poolitical correctness, the school then decided to report the matter to the police and the equally loony police took the matter to court. Fortunately the judge was one of the old school and threw the case out -- though it could possibly be resurrected.

The teachers' union has however now criticized the judge so it seems that British teachers as a whole have totally lost the plot. It's not just a few loonies at fault. Details of the affair here.

And the idea that a police force should be spending its time prosecuting little boys for playground abuse when England is in the grip of soaring rates of murder and gun crime is Kafkaesque. Once again we see the total loss of balance and proportion that political correctness engenders.

(For more postings from me, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.)

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posted by JR at 7:49 PM  

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