Tom Boggioni
Raw StoryMon, 05 Oct 2015 10:59 UTC
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An Ohio court has upheld the suspension of a 12-year-old black boy for staring at a white girl at school in what he called a "staring contest," Fox 19 is reporting.
The unidentified student was suspended from a private Catholic school, St. Gabriel Consolidated, in September of last year after school officials say he "intimidated" his classmate.
According to the boy, he and the girl were engaged in a staring contest and that she was giggling the whole time.
Court documents state that the girl said she "felt fearful," leading the school to suspend the boy despite the fact that he wrote an apology saying he meant no harm.
"I never knew she was scared because she was laughing," he wrote. "I understand I done the wrong thing that will never happen again. I will start to think before I do so I am not in this situation."According to his parents, they filed suit to have the suspension removed from his record.
"The perception is he intimidated her," said his mother, Candice Tolbert. "My son stared at a girl who was engaged in a staring game. She giggled the entire time."
According to Tolbert, the same girl was involved in an incident at the school that was much worse, yet led to no repercussions."The same girl that accused my son of this act of perception of intimidation, aggressively poured milk on someone else's lunch. When she did that there was no penalties for that. She received nothing for that," she explained.
According to school administrators, their handbook states, in part: "The principal is the final recourse in all disciplinary matters and may waive any and all rules at his/her discretion for just cause."
The family intends to file an appeal.
Comment: Pathocracy:
The first phase of macrosocial disease, i.e. social hysterization, is the opening through which pathocracy manifests. Such a period of societal spiritual crisis is associated with the exhausting of the ideational, moral, and religious values heretofore nourishing the society in question. Individuals and groups grow increasingly self-serving, and the links of moral duty and social networks loosen. People become concerned with trifling things, ignoring more important issues such as commitment to the future, or involvement in public matters.
The most characteristic feature of such a period is widespread hysteria, like that of the quarter century in Europe preceding WWI. "Happy" times of peace are necessarily dependant on social injustice, and children of the privileged class learn early to repress ideas that they and their families are benefiting from the injustice of others. Such unconscious defense mechanisms cause these individuals to disparage the values of those whose work they exploit. These processes lead to an hysterical state of inhibited logic and reasoning. This rigidity of thought then gets passed on to the next generation to an even greater degree.
The hysterical patterns finally get passed from the ruling class to the less privileged classes. This characteristic contempt for factual criticism, for normal thought patterns and nations, obviates the need for media censorship. A pathologically hypersensitive censor lives within each citizen. This has been repeatedly demonstrated by the American media in relation to the omissions and distortions of the Kean-Zelikow 911 Commission Report, the propaganda leading to the Iraq war, the death toll of Iraqi citizens, the reality in Palestine.
"When three "egos" govern - egoism, egotism, and egocentrism - the feeling of social links and responsibility toward others disappear, and the society in question splinters into groups ever more hostile to each other. When a hysterical environment stops differentiating the opinions of limited, not-quite-normal people from those of normal, reasonable persons, this opens the door for activation of the pathological factors of a various nature to enter in." (Lobaczewski, 17)
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