There is also the issue that systemic racism is baked into child welfare agencies and family courts. So yea...

Weird, I would not have thought that “you’re a lying bitch” and “you don’t want to engage” could possibly be confused, but hearing the recording, I understand. Sounds like “you don’t want to engage”, but I can definitely hear both.

Of course McEnemy does not want to engage; she’s worse than a lying beyotch, she’s a willful propaganda minister for a rotting orange.

The judge may have said that “she wasn’t jailing Grace because of her missing homework but because of her violent behavior at home,” but from all the facts of the case, it sure seems like it was missing homework. The only probation violation cited by the probation officer was missing homework. Both Grace and her…

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

If suddenly being exposed to new viewpoints causes your kid’s worldview to pull a bootlegger’s reverse, you were controlling the viewpoints they were exposed to in the first place. This is a very common thing to happen in conservative households once the kids go to college.

They have to go harder, because the Irish-Americans already staked out “My ancestors had it equally rough to black slaves because they were *indentured servants* for a short period of time, and had to drink lower-quality booze for a while”

Picoaggression.

I guess my 60 year old boss is a teenager.

She’s not 8, she’s 15.

How??? That just blew my mind. I guess I always just thought of her as Paltrow’s daughter and never thought about Chris Martin. Lol

As a parent of a child with mental illness in the same county, I have thoughts, lots and lots of thoughts on this. My situation is complicated in that my son is super high supports developmentally disabled. He assaults me often, it’s not something he can control with his various diagnoses. They can be really severe,…

THIS THIS THIS THIS

They tried remediation at home and gave her several chances but she obviously didn’t take it seriously.

Is it worth mentioning that the judge in question has served on the boards of at least two organizations that provide these kinds of children’s services? To me there’s a profound conflict of interest here. https://www.icle.org/modules/directories/contributors/bio.aspx?PNumber=P43706

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

Nothing whatsoever to do with the article.

Now I want a nice cool pina colada 

“The names Trader Ming’s, Arabian Joe’s, Trader Jose’s, Trader Giotto’s”

The real correct answer is whichever ones you don’t throw right back up. I couldn’t manage to swallow the giant prescription vitamins so with my doctor’s blessing I took over the counter gummies.