"Mama put it in my pocket this morning."

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I got this story from the School Resource Officer and my Principal. Incredible as it sounds, it is true.

Yesterday a Kindergarten student at our County Primary School was walking down the hall with his class when something fell from his pocket. The teacher recognized it as something a five-year-old should not have. It was a crack pipe.

The mother was called in and questioned. After putting together the story from the kid and the mother, the Officer and Principal at the school determined that the mother had been smoking the pipe yesterday morning just before the school bus ran. Someone knocked on her door. Fearing getting caught, she hurriedly stuck the still-burning pipe in her kid's jacket pocket. The bus ran about that time, and the kid got on with the lit pipe in his pocket.

Apparently, the pipe actually burned a hole through the pocket and fell on the floor in the hall. That's the conclusion, based on the condition of the jacket, the Officer and Principal arrived at.

The mother was taken into custody. I'm sure the pipe was sent to the crime lab. I think this is where the proverbial horse whip, razor strop, or trace chain should come into play. On the Court House Square about 10:00 AM Saturday morning.

[CAJUNLAWYER]

The real problem is this poor child. He is being raised in a totally amoral atmosphere. As I have said in the past amorality is so much more dangerous tham immorality because immorality at least pre supposed that the person knows right from wrong.
This child will gro up with no idea and then will have children and since he/she has no grounding, it will be impossible to pass any type of moral grounding on to their children. If we were talking about the first generation of this happening, there might be a chance to do something, howeve in my experience we are well into the third and in some cases the 4th generation od this pervasive amorality. I am afraid the problem has long since passed critical mass and in my opinion we're screwed. One can't just round up this existing subclass, exterminate and start over. This mass will continue to grow until it topples the country and it's heartbreaking.
Back in 1964 it was forgotten (or just ignored) that great freedom cannot exist without assuming the great responsibility that comes with it.

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

The real problem is this poor child.

I know you see it in the courtroom. Charlie sees it from his patrol car. I see it in the classroom. Several times when Charlie has posted his humorous, but often poignant stories, I have asked him if the people he is describing have children in the public schools. Of course many, if not most, do.

My daughter teaches Eighth Grade English. She related the story earlier this year of one girl who had seemed to latch on to her. One morning my daughter said to her, "Sally, it's Friday. Two whole days without school."

My daughter said she almost cried when the girl looked at her and said, "Miss Katie, I would rather come to school. My house isn't a very nice place."

As a teacher, I have tried to never loose sight of the fact that me or one of my colleagues might be the only friendly voice or face some students see all day. As you say, it is a generational thing. How to break the chain is one of the biggest problems this country faces.

By the way, your reference to 1964, great freedom and great responsibility, is a good one.

[Milton]

Cajunlawyer said "The real problem is this poor child. He is being raised in a totally amoral atmosphere. As I have said in the past amorality is so much more dangerous tham immorality because immorality at least pre supposed that the person knows right from wrong.
This child will gro up with no idea and then will have children and since he/she has no grounding, it will be impossible to pass any type of moral grounding on to their children. If we were talking about the first generation of this happening, there might be a chance to do something, howeve in my experience we are well into the third and in some cases the 4th generation od this pervasive amorality. I am afraid the problem has long since passed critical mass and in my opinion we're screwed. One can't just round up this existing subclass, exterminate and start over. This mass will continue to grow until it topples the country and it's heartbreaking.
Back in 1964 it was forgotten (or just ignored) that great freedom cannot exist without assuming the great responsibility that comes with it."

How absolutely true !!! How many of these poor children grow up without the needed guidance of a father and mother !!! So sad!!!

[BarbC]

Where's all the people who say drugs should be legalized because it's a victimless crime?

[Chromedhearts]

One of my neighbors is a "special needs" teacher at the school in our community. She says that 90% of the learning disability children are "crack babies", born addicted because their mothers were using during their pregnancy.

[rburg]

Waiting patiently to read Charlie's take on the subject!

[godlessgael]

ah, in a few years they will be occupying my wife's class in senior english. of course, by then, they will either be selling or using or both.

[Gutpile Charlie]

I spent fifteen years as an elementary school principal and saw the same thing. I saw the decline of values year after year after year.

I think the reason we have shifted to an entitlement society that thinks you can squeeze blood out of a turnip is for this reason.

We should go back to the old system of having "qualifications" for voting. Too many of the populous are completely brain dead. If we let them, they will complete destroy everything for all of us.

[Firehouse]

I agree with Gutcheck Charlie. Only landowners should be able to vote, as it were originally meant to be. That and a high school diploma or it's equivalent.

[Sam McCord]

I don't think voting should limited to any class or group. It's my opinion that in order to receive a voter registration card one should have to take a test (in english) covering civics and history.Upon passing the voter registration card would be issued and it would have a photo of the holder. When election day rolls around go to your polling place, present card, vote.

Sam

[M29since14]

Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

The real problem is this poor child. He is being raised in a totally amoral atmosphere. As I have said in the past amorality is so much more dangerous tham immorality because immorality at least pre supposed that the person knows right from wrong.
This child will gro up with no idea and then will have children and since he/she has no grounding, it will be impossible to pass any type of moral grounding on to their children. If we were talking about the first generation of this happening, there might be a chance to do something, howeve in my experience we are well into the third and in some cases the 4th generation od this pervasive amorality. I am afraid the problem has long since passed critical mass and in my opinion we're screwed. One can't just round up this existing subclass, exterminate and start over. This mass will continue to grow until it topples the country and it's heartbreaking.
Back in 1964 it was forgotten (or just ignored) that great freedom cannot exist without assuming the great responsibility that comes with it.

Cajunlawyer, take heart! I generally agree with this, but I do NOT believe we are powerless, and should just accept it and give up. Misguided, egalitarian, law-based foolishness of several sorts is responsible for this mess. It could be cured relatively quickly with sensible legislation and enforcement, if there is the will for it. The problems are very simple. The answers are obvious. The solution is a matter of will, but presently, there is none. That will, if not forthcoming from elected leadership, can, and I believe will, come from other places.

As the situation you describe continues to deteriorate, and it probably will, some pretty shocking things will likely start to happen. Some of us simply will not lie down to be trompled. When this happens on a large scale, maybe then our friends who have dreamed up this little social/economic experiment that has turned so nightmarish will see that it has terminally derailed, and this great country will begin to get back to being interested in being great, again. We CAN do it.

BTW, I do not believe that one need specify 1964, since what you said in that sentence has always has been true, and always will be. 1964 may seem like the locus of the problem, but in my opinion the real rottenness in our system of government began the moment our legislators were empowered to approve entitlements without immediately voting corresponding appropriations. That took place long before 1964, and everything else flowed from it. JMHO.

[armadillo]

"There is no such thing as a crack baby." That what an "expert" from CDC once said at a conference I attended. She said all the problems were from alcohol use.

Of course no one agreed with her.

[Wheelgunner840]

armadillo;"There is no such thing as a crack baby." That what an "expert" from CDC once said at a conference I attended. She said all the problems were from alcohol use.

Of course no one agreed with her.

Then that expert has never spent a minute in an inner city hospital where children are born. When you see a baby smaller than your hand screaming because of the drug withdrawal pain, you tend to change that point of view rather quickly.

[alde]

Originally Posted by BarbC

Where's all the people who say drugs should be legalized because it's a victimless crime?

Right you are. It drives me crazy when I hear people say "they just need to legalize and tax it". A bunch of the young adults today grew up in homes with pot smokers. They are the ones with two kids at 16 and on the public dole. It's really a sad situation.