Friday 07-01-16

Very sad, but what do you expect when you don't promote patriotism and becoming an American.  They always take action after the fact, but no one will lose their job, or be corrected.

State takes action after piles of flags found at vets cemetery

EXETER, R.I. (WPRI) — “It just broke my heart because everyone in this cemetery fought under that banner and every fiber of that flag is their blood, sweat, and tears.”
Stan Sniezyk visits his father’s grave every week at the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery, and that was his reaction when he saw piles of torn and tattered American flags at the cemetery in Exeter last weekend.
The photos Sniezyk submitted to Call 12 for Action showed two piles of flags: one by a dumpster and the other by an open storage shed.
His photos were shared thousands of times on social media within a couple of days and sparked fury, especially among veterans and their families.
“I’ve been getting messages from California, Texas, Connecticut, Florida,” he said. “People are absolutely outraged at what they’ve done, how they’ve disgraced the American flag in a veterans cemetery of all places.”
Kasim Yarn, the state’s new director of Veterans Affairs, was one of the people who saw the photos online and said he went right to the cemetery.
“I was speechless when I saw,” he recalled. “Flags were not stowed properly and prepared for proper disposal. Flags were in bags, on the ground. The place was a mess, totally. Procedures weren’t being followed.”

Yarn said he’s implementing updated policies to make sure flags are properly folded and stored, as well as starting a new inspection process at the cemetery.
“At very minimum, I will go there weekly and walk around,” he said. “I will open up all those doors, every facility, to ensure things are being placed in a proper manner.”
The flags seen in the photos were properly burned after the cemetery got a permit from the Exeter Fire Department.

http://wpri.com/2016/06/29/va-director-takes-action-after-seeing-piles-of-flags-at-vets-cemetery/

School Calls Cops, Cops Call Child Services on Boy Who Made Harmless 'Brownies' Remark

Political correctness in the classroom leads to insane disciplinary policies.

 

Gunold Brunbauer / DreamstimeThis might be the most absurd case of a school

This might be the most absurd case of a school mishandling a disciplinary issue yet: an elementary school in Collingswood, New Jersey, called the police because a nine-year-old male student allegedly made a racist remark. As a result, the state's child services division has opened a wholly unnecessary investigation into the boy's parents.

It isn't cleared what he actually said—the school, William P. Tatem Elementary, has not returned my request for comment. But a local news story suggests that he did not use the word "brownies" to refer to persons of color. He was actually referring to the chocolate baked good, according to his parents. Given that he made the statement during a class party—it was the last day of school—this explanation makes sense. (His last name sounds Hispanic, if that matters.)
In either case, the school had absolutely no reason to involve the police. Administrators should be perfectly capable of dealing with this sort of thing on their own. His teacher, or principal, could have asked the boy and his accuser about the incident and rendered some verdict. They could have punished him, if punishment was called for.

Instead, a young boy was interrogated by an officer about a harmless comment he made while in school.
It's just never necessary to involve the police in perfectly routine, non-violent, non-criminal disputes between children. The school's decision to do so is indefensible.
But according to Philly.com, these kinds of automatic appeals to police authority are common:

The incident, which has sparked outrage among some parents, was one of several in the last month when Collingswood police have been called to look into school incidents that parents think hardly merit criminal investigation.
Superintendent Scott Oswald estimated that on some occasions over the last month, officers may have been called to as many as five incidents per day in the district of 1,875 students.
This has created concern among parents in the 14,000-resident borough, who have phoned their elected officials, met with Mayor James Maley, blasted social-media message boards, and even launched a petition calling on the Camden County Prosecutor's Office to "stop mandated criminal investigation of elementary school students."

It gets worse. Philly.com is also reporting that "the incident had been referred to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency." I will be following up with this agency, the police, and the school.
The school turned a non-issue into a police issues, and the cops turned a police issue into a child services issue. All because school officials think it's a police officer's job to tell students to behave themselves, rather than the students' teachers. Truly, it's incidents like these that confirm the suspicions of many Americans (and many Donald Trump supporters) that their country is too politically correct.

 

http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/29/school-calls-cops-cops-call-child-servic