14 yr old girl sent to Jail for speaking to teacher?

[SkyBlueFlux]

Diddy your last post post and the point about the aboriginals reminded me of this.

Nothing’s Changed
Small round hard stones click
under my heels,
seeding grasses thrust
bearded seeds
into trouser cuffs, cans,
trodden on, crunch
in tall, purple-flowering,
amiable weeds.

District Six.
No board says it is:
but my feet know,
and my hands,
and the skin about my bones,
and the soft labouring of my lungs,
and the hot, white, inwards turning
anger of my eyes.

Brash with glass,
name flaring like a flag,
it squats
in the grass and weeds,
incipient Port Jackson trees:
new, up-market, haute cuisine,
guard at the gatepost,
whites only inn.

No sign says it is:
but we know where we belong.

I press my nose
to the clear panes, know,
before I see them, there will be
crushed ice white glass,
linen falls,
the single rose.

Down the road,
working man's cafe sells
bunny chows.
Take it with you, eat
it at a plastic table's top,
wipe your fingers on your jeans,
spit a little on the floor:
it's in the bone.

I back from the
glass,
boy again,
leaving small mean O
of small mean mouth.
Hands burn
for a stone, a bomb,
to shiver down the glass.
Nothing's changed.

Did you study that in GCSE English Literature, by any chance?

I remember doing it and it was one of the better poems we studied.

 

[malg]

I would be more furious if my child was so ill educated

I sometimes have trouble trying to figure out if you're being serious.

Its simple.

A child of mine would not be so ill educated and be more worldy wise.


Why is that so difficult to work out? Dont we all want that from our kids?

It's the Mail for fuck's sake - most of the article will be bullshit, which you should know anyway, but you decide to weigh in and slag the girl and her parents - all in the name of wanting to sound 'right on'.

 

[mancunial]

The girl has been used, if it was my daughter I would be furious that it was handled in such a manner to threaten abuse and push the girl in to submission what a joke of mismanagement of a child. People assuming on here that not all the information has been publicised, all this has done is push fear of being able to speak your mind. Eventually no one will be able to say anything remotely racist even by a slip of a tongue in jest, that young lady will never forget or probably never forgive the people who mismanaged this debacle, shame oh them

 

[Eccles Blue]

IT WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO!! Stop getting so uptight about it now, she is probably over 21 years old now and getting on with her life so why don't you all do the same??

 

[SWP's back]

I would be more furious if my child was so ill educated

I sometimes have trouble trying to figure out if you're being serious.

Its simple.

A child of mine would not be so ill educated and be more worldy wise.


Why is that so difficult to work out? Dont we all want that from our kids?

If her version is true then she would have have to Be educated in speaking Urdu.

 

[KrazyKeeper]

has anyone mentioned the fact that the teacher racially segregated the asian pupils yet???

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Gaol = English
Jail = American

 

[Skashion]

Gaol = English

Goal = Aguerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooo

 

[Deleted member 52846]

Gaol = English

Goal = Aguerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooo

Haha,
Gaël = Clichy

 

[Skashion]

Gaol = English

Goal = Aguerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooo

Haha,
Gaël = Clichy

You win. :-)