Gotta love red state hypocrisy.

I like how some of these groups are all hard core about doing things like this and then saying it’s in the name of God but as soon as someone threatens to take the money away the whole fight for God thing seems not to matter any more. If it was about God why would losing money of it matter? Why can’t they just admit…

My parents are fairly conservative politically (and religious as well), but they did the best thing for me by NOT “explaining homosexuality” very much at all to me as a kid. Oddly enough I was able to figure out all on my own, and quite quickly, that LGBT people are pretty cool and that their so-called “choices” don’t…

MLB still let Arizona have the ASG after they passed their papers-please law. On the other end of the spectrum, the NFL has been pretty unequivocal about Georgia not getting the super bowl if they pass their proposed anti-gay law. Any idea where the NBA falls? This feels like a “sure, everyone is outraged today, but…

People like to say “How am I going to explain homosexuality to my kids?” I don’t know, tell them sometimes guys love guys and girls love girls. I’m pretty sure I’ll have a harder time explaining homophobes.

I had a girl in junior high who tormented me for two years. Man she enjoyed being cruel. I couldn’t turn around and punch her like I would if it was another guy. So, I just put up with it. A couple weeks before the end of 8th grade, she pushed me into a closet and slid her hand down the back of my pants and grabbed my…

Just came here to mention something I learned from many years of working in the juvenile justice system: here, anyway, if a person “complainant” makes report to police, it is up to the police department’s application of laws or guidelines whether or not to arrest. The kid’s mom may have simply wanted to make a report.…

The game, apparently, involves grabbing classmates’ butts and laughing at their reaction.

A game that is popular at school, but one kid gets ARRESTED for it?? Ok, someone’s mom is a nut, and the school needs to have a school wide seminar on bodily autonomy and consent.

There seems to be something missing here. So it’s a “game” at this particular school. Were there already a lot of issues? Was this kid constantly targeted? Was this girl one of the ringleaders? Was there a warning? etc etc

As a teacher, I’d like you to consider option 3 - This is another consequence of the Zero Tolerance policies/nonsense.

How odd. Don’t get me wrong, this is definitely a punishable offence, and suspension seems appropriate, but arrest? It doesn’t strike me as over-reaction, so much as naïveté - I absolutely promise you could take ANY school at random, and something much more disturbing than this will be happening, where no one sees it.

That baby Veronica case PISSED me off to no end and showed how little the supreme court cares for Native sovereignty. That kid was stolen from her father effectively.

The kid is suffering because of the foster parents. They dragged out the process when they didn’t have a legal leg to stand on. They called the media and barricaded the house. They created Facebook groups and went on TV tours. THEY RELEASED HER NAME TO THE PUBLIC TO CREATE THIS SHITSTORM specifically so internet…

The footage of those random nut cases screaming into the car about how they love her as she sobs is gut wrenching. I can't imagine the heartbreak on all sides but as a parent of any kind your first job is to protect your kids no matter how you feel on the inside. If that means swallowing your own grief and putting a…

Yup, came here to say exactly this. If you want to fight for your right to the child, do it in the proper channels and keep life for them as stable and normal as possible. The experience of being transferred from home to home is traumatic enough - she doesn’t need her foster family making a massive scene (or…

Ding ding motherfucking ding. This girl could have had a safe, happy, short experience in the foster system and be that much further toward feeling secure with her relatives if they hadn’t fought her reunification every step of the way. Part of being a parent - foster or otherwise - is putting your kids’ needs ahead…

Her family members that she is being placed with are not relative strangers. She considers them family. They visited her (on their own dime, from Utah) once a month, and Skype with her every week. That foster family purposefully and selfishly created a traumatic situation where they could have been following the law…

Or maybe it was cruel of the foster parents to keep her for all these years fighting a custody battle they could never win because under the law they have never had any legal leg to stand on.