A Virginia mother who placed a recording device in her 9-year-old daughter’s backpack to help prove to school officials that she was being bullied has been charged by police with a felony.
Local news station WAVY reports that Norfolk resident Sarah Sims grew fed up with her local elementary school’s failure to take action to prevent her daughter from being bullied. To put the school’s feet to the fire, she planted a recorder in her daughter’s backpack to show them direct evidence that she was a victim of a bullying campaign.
However, when the school found the recorder and then moved her daughter to a different classroom.
What surprised her even more, says tells WAVY, is that she was subsequently charged with a felony.Specifically, WAVY says police charged Sims with “use of device to intercept oral communication and misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” which could carry up to five years in prison.
3) Black people are assumed to be less trustworthy than white people. (http://www.pnas.org/content/108/19/7710.full) Therefore, a white child who reports bullying is more likely to be taken at their word. The same is true for the parents who report bullying to the school.
4) Black people are more likely to be punished and more severely. (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/unequal-sentences-for-blacks-and-whites.html) At every level of the criminal justice system, there’s a disparity between white consequences and Black consequences and in any given situation, there’s a higher probability of someone seeking legal recourse against a Black person than a white one.
5) White women get to be protected and coddled and Black women do not. I don’t need a link for that because we all have eyes and ears.
what homestuck thoughts are we thinking tonight lads
How Aradia was living in a shitty totalitarian world that conditions its people not to care about death and the mourning of loved ones, so when she dies, no one cares beyond ,”well you can still talk to us, so it’s fine.” And how this is one of the aspects that lead to her being terribly depressed and losing all ability to feel, cause if no one else cares than why should I? But through the magic of Sgrub, she is revived and finds a culture where appreciating and mourning the dead is a regular thing, no matter how morbid it is. And how after this, she is given the opportunity to help and reassure and mourn the millions of kids who had no one else to do so. The millions of kids who weren’t able to help her. And even though the whole black hole thing happened and no one’s even sure that anyone’s still out there anymore, she was finally able to be truly happy.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
