I was completely off base on that, ProudHamerican corrected me downthread.  I made an assumption, like an ass, and was wrong.

Yeah, there’s also this (I posted it elsewhere on this article’s Kinja, so apologies to all for repeating it here): https://www.icle.org/modules/directories/contributors/bio.aspx?PNumber=P43706

I don’t want to defend this trash judge! I just don’t think it’s helpful to reduce the situation to the homework. From your linked article:

That’s nice. 130 tesla workers tested positive for covid last week...

My guess is the Judge is reaping monetary benefits from forcing kids into (and keeping them in) that program. It would not be unprecedented.

At a certain point, and after several incidents of calls to the police for all sorts of bad behavior, the mother doesn’t get to make the choice about what happens to the kid. They tried remediation at home and gave her several chances but she obviously didn’t take it seriously. The headline stating that she was…

Did everyone else in the world realize how close Apple Martin’s name is to Apple Martini before today? I feel 16 years late to this joke. I’ve been walking around laughing at the name like, “Yeah. Apple. That’s a bad name.” But not understanding that what’s really bad is its proximity to a questionable cocktail. I…

Ugh, right. This is his artisanal hobby baby

It’s his 7th. His first child died when he was an infant.

She and her attorney argued she has been “deprived” of education and therapy. She has between 30 and 60 minutes of individual therapy twice a month and has had three joint sessions with her mother. Before being detained, she was meeting with a therapist twice weekly in addition to family therapy and academic tutoring,…

That's Elon's 6th child. The man left his first wife with 5 under 5.

Yeah, I’m torn on this one. She’s currently receiving more help than she was, but it sounds like it’s still not enough (according to her attorney).  I won’t weigh in on how much the separation from her mother is helping/hindering her mental health since I obviously don’t know how much their relationship contributed to…

Twenty years ago, I was that “unmotivated” high school student who never turned anything in. I just utterly failed to do the work in high school. I couldn’t explain it. I just always found myself with incomplete homework when it was actually due. Being perpetually, perpetually behind and on the verge of failing was…

Beyond systemic racism and black incarceration, I think this is a story about how we’re continually failing to support the parents of mentally ill children. Privileged parents shell out a lot of money for specialists if they can—this is what happens when they can’t. Biting her mother at the age of fifteen is a huge red…

Yeah, JPS did that kid wrong.

I live in NYC and have several friends who aren’t monogamous. Some of them are even in hetero or hetero-passing marriages, and they’re now in a pod with other individuals and couples they were dating/sleeping with before the pandemic hit. There have been rumors for years that Will and Jada are monogamousISH, and in…

I wonder if having a child will give her any pause to reconsider her relationships with known sex offenders.

The lost dog is hitting home for me right now... our cat disappeared a few nights ago, and we are a mess. Most likely a coyote got him. As morbid as it is, I googled how coyotes hunt, and it was comforting. They kill very, very quickly by smothering/choking the animal by biting its neck. The thought of something …

1, fuck August. That piece of shit is enjoying reveling in the past. Grow the fuck up.

This lake apparently had a lot of debris (trees, logs, weeds, whatnot) so she could have been caught on something. She could have dove down and accidentally hit her head on the boat on the way back up, she could have had some kind of medical emergency. Maybe she forgot to drop anchor and hadn’t realized how far the…