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Middle school is a nightmare, and any impulse to avoid it is totally understandable. A Florida teenager who had the courage to fight back, however, was rewarded for his bravery this week with a pair of handcuffs and a trip to the St. Johns County jail.
According to an arrest report obtained by The Smoking Gun, the 14-year-old boy, whose name was redacted, repeatedly refused to go to school after moving from New York to Florida, resisting even after his mother took away his cell phone and laptop and disconnected their home's internet. This weektwo weeks after the district's August 18 start datethe mother called the police, who reported to the house and told the teen he could either go to school or go to jail. His stoic reply, delivered from bed: "Do what you gotta do. I'm not going to school."
The martyr for teens everywhere was arrested for misdemeanor resisting without violence/obstruction of justice, cuffed, and taken in, before eventually being released into his mother's custody. Is this how America treats its heroes?
http://gawker.com/brave-teen-refuses-to-attend-middle-school-chooses-jai-1630693957?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Failure all around...
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)A hero? Many teens don't like school and would rather not go. I HAVE to be missing something.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)if he repeatedly missed school he will be truant .
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)But, no matter how many times I skipped no one called the cops on me. I missed close to 80 days one year, that is I attended school about every other day. But, it was more like I would go a week and take a week off. I still managed to pass all of my classes, but I did almost get a D in history luckily I got an A on the final bringing my grade up to a C.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)That's more than I skipped/faked sickness in grades 1-12 combined...
Hell, I don't know the exact number, but it used to be that 25-35 documented absences would automatically trigger a repeat year where I grew up...
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I still have no idea how I got away with that. I am even more astonished I passed any of my classes let alone all of them.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Seems like one should be being arrested for SOMETHING before "resisting arrest" can be charged.
And the kid is definitely from New York: "Do what you gotta do"
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)It's possible there may not be, but more likely than not......there could be something.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)School sux.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)The article is short on details.
Perhaps this child is having a tough time adjusting to his new surroundings and the support mechanism to transition isn't adequate or is severely lacking...
I sympathize with this young man as he struggles through a very difficult period for any adolescent in his/her situation.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)I don't see a bright future for this young man.