http://www.askthejudge.info/kids-in-jail-their-own-words/157/ Answers for teens about the law Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.askthejudge.info/kids-in-jail-their-own-words/157/comment-page-1/#comment-11491 Benjamin Mon, 31 May 2010 05:26:26 +0000 http://askthejudge.info/introduction/157/#comment-11491 REALLY? A kid who gets A's and B's, has a job and wants to go to college was jailed because he of what he said? He wasn't threatening anyone, he made a joke. I highly doubt it's even possible to pump "Sleeping gas" through a school's ventilation system to knock Everyone unconscious, and furthermore, that doesn't even matter because he didn't even threaten anyone, he was being facetious to his friend. There's a connotation there, a sardonic one. And his trying Marijuana doesn't have anything to do with further criminal behavior. He's a teenager, for god's sake, and the gateway drug theory isn't too credible. It doesn't immediately condemn him to a life of crime and murder. And getting in fights is commonplace, especially at schools, if you hadn't noticed. It's not "anti-social" behavior. <strong>Thanks, Benjamin, for your thoughts. REALLY? A kid who gets A’s and B’s, has a job and wants to go to college was jailed because he of what he said? He wasn’t threatening anyone, he made a joke. I highly doubt it’s even possible to pump “Sleeping gas” through a school’s ventilation system to knock Everyone unconscious, and furthermore, that doesn’t even matter because he didn’t even threaten anyone, he was being facetious to his friend. There’s a connotation there, a sardonic one.
And his trying Marijuana doesn’t have anything to do with further criminal behavior. He’s a teenager, for god’s sake, and the gateway drug theory isn’t too credible. It doesn’t immediately condemn him to a life of crime and murder. And getting in fights is commonplace, especially at schools, if you hadn’t noticed. It’s not “anti-social” behavior.
Thanks, Benjamin, for your thoughts.

]]> http://www.askthejudge.info/kids-in-jail-their-own-words/157/comment-page-1/#comment-10297 Albano Coelho Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0000 http://askthejudge.info/introduction/157/#comment-10297 The Philip's case would have a quite different turnout in Spain where I live. His mother would be arrested, not him who was defending himself against that deplorable adult's assault, and sentenced to a minimum of 90 days in prison but certainly more because she used soap. Can a country be called "civilized" while allowing an adult to forcibly put toxic chemicals in a child's mouth and jailing a 9yo for spitting it back? I don't think so. This kind of things make USA looks even worse than it really is. <strong>Thank you, Albano, for your comments. You're right about a difference between America and other countries. We're finding that's also the case when cyberbullying is discovered - European nations seem to prefer working with the schools and parents rather than litigation in the courts. The Philip’s case would have a quite different turnout in Spain where I live. His mother would be arrested, not him who was defending himself against that deplorable adult’s assault, and sentenced to a minimum of 90 days in prison but certainly more because she used soap. Can a country be called “civilized” while allowing an adult to forcibly put toxic chemicals in a child’s mouth and jailing a 9yo for spitting it back? I don’t think so. This kind of things make USA looks even worse than it really is.
Thank you, Albano, for your comments. You’re right about a difference between America and other countries. We’re finding that’s also the case when cyberbullying is discovered – European nations seem to prefer working with the schools and parents rather than litigation in the courts.

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