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Parents could be fined for school violence, City Council measure calls for `safety zone'
Tribune
In a move to crack down on school violence, Chicago aldermen have advanced a measure that calls for stiff fines and possibly jail time for anyone involved in violence at or near a city school.Ald. Michael Zalewski (23rd Ward) said Saturday that he supports the effort as a way to "strengthen a safety zone around schools where we see a spike in violence. We want to make it safer for students, faculty and residents of the community."The measure, expected to come before the City Council on Wednesday, calls for fines of $500 to $1,000 and/or jail time of up to 6 months for anyone convicted of battery within 1,000 feet of a Chicago school--including private schools. More...
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Parents could be fined for school violence, City Council measure calls for `safety zone'
Tribune
In a move to crack down on school violence, Chicago aldermen have advanced a measure that calls for stiff fines and possibly jail time for anyone involved in violence at or near a city school.Ald. Michael Zalewski (23rd Ward) said Saturday that he supports the effort as a way to "strengthen a safety zone around schools where we see a spike in violence. We want to make it safer for students, faculty and residents of the community."The measure, expected to come before the City Council on Wednesday, calls for fines of $500 to $1,000 and/or jail time of up to 6 months for anyone convicted of battery within 1,000 feet of a Chicago school--including private schools. More...
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posted by gf at 10:05 AM
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reposted from news page yesterday, gf
Paradise said...
This is an extremely irresponsible law, just another knee-jerk feel-good that will accomplish the very opposite of what it says it intends.
This law is not only irresponsible but is downright brutal, and I cannot believe the aldermen who thought of it really give a damn about the children or their victims, if they would send a parent who is possibly the kid's ONLY parent to jail because she can't bring her willful, aggressive, disobedient kid to heel because he is 6' tall and can push her around the room, and does so regularly. I know, because I've seen.
The whole idea of punishing the parent for what a teen does flies in the face of justice and decency.
Believe me, the parent is ALREADY being amply punished.
Most parents, including those who are poor and uneducated, are not neglectful and/or abusive. A poor parent struggling to stay off welfare and keep a roof over her head by working three jobs is up against enough already.
Most parents are doing their damndest, as they see it, to raise their kids properly, in less-than-favorable conditions, in a culture that promotes violence and militates against respect for parents.
I know I sound like a right-winger here, but it's time the psychologists and social workers and law enforcement people took a step back and considered just what their efforts to control and direct parents are really accomplishing.
I personally feel that the biggest challenge a parent has is getting a kid to respect her authority, and our culture does not promote respect for elders and for parents. What it really teaches kids is that their parents are a bunch of inept fuddy-duddys who couldn't even figure out how to change a diaper if it weren't for the interference of school authorities and social services people. I have personally watched juvenile officers and teachers chide mothers as though they were naughty little children, as the woman's children watched. Let me tell you that kids are not likely to respect and obey mom after watching her being degraded and humiliated by a social worker or police officer.
Other negative cultural influences arrayed against the hapless parents is the prevelance of violence in our culture and most of all, the extreme emphasis on youth, with the concommitant notion that no one over the age of 35 could possibly be as hip, smart, wise, and altogether with it as the typical kid of 15.
Parents do not have the support of law enforcement and the rest of the local community in enforcing their rules with their children as they once did. Once upon a time, when your kid got into an altercation at school, say, or was violationg curfew, the cop who brought him home would say, "do what your parents say".
These days, they bring the kid home and lecture the mother like she's a delinquent, while the kid looks on, and can't figure out why she can no longer command her kid's respect and deference.
This is the worst ordinance ever proposed, and I am writing to JoMo to vote against it.
9:59 PM
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