Okay, so anyone who knows me, even a little bit, knows I am all about the children. You don’t even have to know me well, to know that yes, I am always about protecting our children. This isn’t just a pet peeve. My pet peeve is stupid people, who have no reason except that they choose to be ignorant, and refuse to learn or better themselves. Fighting for the children is, for me, a believe system, a way of life. Their lives, everyone’s future. And this is what is disturbing.
One of the reasons we need our children to be safe and happy children, is because if they are too stressed about their home lives, they cannot do well in school. Part of our young being a big part of our future, is to ensure they can get the education they need to be successful as adults. So, here is an article, about a bus driver who was arrested for taking drugs before clocking into his afternoon shift to take children home from school.
I know that the area isn’t very big, and I’m not sure the ages of the kids, but still... Why would you drive a school bus as a druggie? And, don’t tell me this is the first time he has been caught, because, at the age of 38 years old, he didn’t JUST become a druggie yesterday. With that knowledge in hand, how is it, that the bus company, whose #1 priority is safety, that they didn’t find anything? Well, no matter, people are supposed to be normal, and it wasn’t the bus company that fed him the drugs. But seriously... Stop driving children around, if you are going to be that STUPID!
The next bit, just as big, in a different way, is the editorial for The Racine Interfaith Coalition. Anyway... This is a group of people, most of them who are in leadership positions with a religious facility, and a diverse group ranging from Lutherans, to Episcopalians, to Catholics, to Jewish, to Muslim, to AME, Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, and others, who get together to help develop and manage various social programs to help those who truly need help. The philosophy is, that by being social connections within the community, they are better able to connect those in need directly with the services in need, and tackle the issues that are facing the people getting the help. Great organization, have a look for your self - http://www.ricracine.org/Issues.htm...
The biggest thing they’re working on (as far as I know with my limited knowledge), is a project to reduce the amount of people going into our already over crowded prisons, and ensure that nonviolent people are not getting incarcerated as much, and the fact that yes, our black population is arrested, charged, and imprisoned more often and longer than the rest of the population. Also, not to mention, that youthful offenders who did not commit a violent crime should not be tried as adults, and our young people and those coming out of prisons need a second chance, as stated here in this Commentary in October 8, 2015 of the Journal Times - http://journaltimes.com/print_speci...
Good causes, and for the right reasons, these have merit. Thing is, we also have the Racine Vocational Ministry who helps those coming out with job placements; the HOPES Center to help with counseling, AODA, and what ever else; The Hospitality Center, who helps everybody to an extent and the neediest of the needy in huge ways; amongst the Workforce Development Center, and more. I understand, especially with our young people, because so many other programs may be getting cut due to budget system, and youth need the most help. All great, right?
Well, yes, but, there are those of us who fall in the cracks of everything, and if I weren’t so pathetic in my own situation, I’d have a difficult time believing it myself. But, seriously, sometimes I wonder what is going on with some things, and after a certain point, some of us just have nowhere else to go, and there is no agency who puts us first, because there is always a person or family out there that are worse off, or have other extenuating circumstances, etc... So, what, do we, as honest people have to lose everything with extenuating circumstances before we are to be helped, and have to start with literally NOTHING? It’s crazy... And, trust me, there are a lot more than me. And as much as we try to network, we are unsuccessful, and have little to no options. It shouldn’t be this hard to find a job that fits, at a rate we don’t have to worry about expenses. Yet, who is out there advocating for us? Why does it have to be exclusive?
The biggest kicker for me... is this couple, who took in a young girl, and wanted to teach her about sex, and made her take part in their bedroom from the time she was about 9, to about 13 years of age. Are they f*c%!ng serious? A little girl learns about sex from partaking in adult sexual relationships? That is so disgusting! Sex education does NOT include actually having sex with others, and most definitely NOT with a couple where the man is old enough to be her grandfather!
The sickening part, more than disgusting... For 4 years of sex abuse for the man being a pedophile, is 10 years behind bars, and 15 years extended supervision. Seriously? I don’t care if he’s 56, and will be out of prison by the time (maybe before) he’s 66, and 81 when off papers. The girl, no matter how mature, how big her heart is, will have a life time of repercussions to some extend or another. These aren’t just with nightmares, depression, or PTSD. This girl is possibly going to have difficulty building a normal relationship with an intimate lover, and may reject him because she doesn’t feel as if she is lovable, or clean enough, or what have you, for this potential young man might have for her. Or, maybe she can love, but, when it comes to intimacy, cannot participate in her own relationship because of the bad memories that come back. The rest of her life. Do the judges understand this?
For being a part of the marriage and what have you, the wife, who also willingly took part, damn it, that the excuse is she was a victim since 9 herself, was taught not to stand up to men? What kind of crap IS that? Yes, she could have done something, and not waited until AFTER the court case started. And, for being a grown woman who survived so much abuse herself, that *I* expect that she do the right thing, but, because she is a “sympathetic perpetrator”, so deserves some stupid sympathy, is only getting 10 years behind bars and 5 years extended supervision.
Before going on about being in someone elses’ shoes, yes, I have been in a similar situations as the teenage girl whose innocence and everything was stolen from her, and will never be able to be given back to her. For being a woman, how did her maternal instincts not start ringing warning bells inside her head? And I suppose for the 20 months behind bars, will probably be counted toward her time.
Why are we so lenient on those who sexually abuse our children? No, this is NOT acceptable, and this is also why our city, state, and nation going to the sewers. Our children deserve better than this. A LOT better. How do we expect our young people to succeed in school, if this is what they have to live with? Even fast food is about knowing how to do data entry, reading, coding, entering on computerized cash register, light math, etc. And if they don’t get this? These kids won’t be able to get much accomplished. We seriously need to gather ourselves together, and push to be harsher, and stop making excuses for adults who are too weak to protect our children.
Why are we so lenient on those who sexually abuse our children? No, this is NOT acceptable, and this is also why our city, state, and nation going to the sewers. Our children deserve better than this. A LOT better. How do we expect our young people to succeed in school, if this is what they have to live with? Even fast food is about knowing how to do data entry, reading, coding, entering on computerized cash register, light math, etc. And if they don’t get this? These kids won’t be able to get much accomplished. We seriously need to gather ourselves together, and push to be harsher, and stop making excuses for adults who are too weak to protect our children.
Why are we so lenient on those who sexually abuse our children? No, this is NOT acceptable, and this is also why our city, state, and nation going to the sewers. Our children deserve better than this. A LOT better. How do we expect our young people to succeed in school, if this is what they have to live with? Even fast food is about knowing how to do data entry, reading, coding, entering on computerized cash register, light math, etc. And if they don’t get this? These kids won’t be able to get much accomplished. We seriously need to gather ourselves together, and push to be harsher, and stop making excuses for adults who are too weak to protect our children.
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