Respect
I watched the video of the incident in S.C. involving a police officer and a student. In my days a student would not tell a teacher, a principal, and a police officer to get ____! and completely ignore the basics of good behavior, mocking school officials and the rule of law by striking a police officer, a felony! You strike a police officer holding a riot stick and you will see how justice works.
How you people can condone this behavior by blaming the police officer is beyond me! Her behavior was inexcusable and if you don’t think it was you are the problem! Schools have become places of total anarchy due to this type of behavior. How do you think kids can get an education when they think they can get away with this kind of crap. What about the kids that want to get an education? And, oh by the way, at 17-18 years old she can be tried as an adult in a court of law. Do you want to tell me we have to put up with one person disrupting a whole school day because she wants to talk on her phone and disrespect authority? Don’t blame the police officer, blame her and her parents! Total disrespect starts at home!
Back in my younger days I would hate to think of what my consequences would be for this and the police officer would not have been blamed, I would have been told to apologize to him and the school officials. But not now, it’s sue everybody for your total misbehavior! You keep this mentality up you will have total anarchy in our schools, i.e. NO EDUCATION. And to you students, get your head out of your phones and get an education or you are doomed to a life of poverty! Got it? And tell those who don’t, get out because we do care about our education and have a life that does matter!
The sheriff fired the policeman in question without due process, for which the union will sue and win. Then the City will probably cover-up and pay the student’s lawsuit, which I hope they don’t, so they stand to lose twice to an insulting little twit! Justice in America today?
So don’t give me this crap she is a child — that’s sheer crap, and do you want to bet 10 years from now she will have multiple police records of criminal offences. The inmates are running the asylum. To grow up to be uneducated and a burden on society, which we will pay dearly for all of the rest of their lives, because you on the left run the schools and in my view have ruined them! You don’t educate them and test scores show it, you are more worried about social justice than education and it shows up in the test scores. Over 60 percent of our students are not proficient in 8th grade reading and math (a proven fact, it was in our Record-Bee). Schools are predominately run by Democrats, so who is failing these children, Republicans or Democrats? In Detroit, run by Dems for over 60 years, the deficiency rises to 93 percent who are not proficient in 8th grade math and reading.
So are Republicans still at fault? You have to be brain dead to follow this pattern of child abuse perpetrated by Dems.
Mac McKay, Lakeport
Equine perfection
Kudos for American Pharoah, truly a proven exceptional thoroughbred race horse.
As a three-year-old, he raced eight times, winning seven of the graded stakes races, earning in excess of $8.28 million. Remarkably he became the first horse ever to win the Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby/Preakness/Belmont Stakes) and the Breeders’ Cup Classic (held in 2015 at Keenland race track, Lexington, Kentucky).
The future possibility of another three-year-old horse winning this grand-slam of thoroughbred horse racing is indeed remote. Last horse to win the Triple Crown was Affirmed in 1978 (37 years ago).
American Pharoah is retired from racing and currently residing at Ashford Stud (Versailles, KY), where he will be grazing on the Kentucky countryside. He will stand at stud for a $200,000 dollar fee; one of the highest prices for a horse in his first year as a stallion.
To American Pharoah — wishing you a bright and lasting future.
Dave Harkavey, Glenhaven
