Why Was This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Put in Solitary For Three Days?

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Why Was This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Put in Solitary For Three Days?
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A fifth-grader reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained.

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Why Was This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Put in Solitary For Three Days?

Because it's Texas. The answer is always because it's Texas.. Well, okay. Sometimes it's Florida too.

This is a serious over-generalization. Brownsville and the RGV vote reliably Democratic, and abuse of authority situations, involving school districts, criminal justice systems, and the police, et al, absolutely happen all over the country.

Yeah there's some good people in Texas. That doesn't change the fact that, for the most part, the entire state is a disgusting shit hole that is one of the biggest embarrassments in America.

That doesn't change the fact that, for the most part, the entire state is a disgusting shit hole

There are some shitty parts of Texas for sure, but "for the most part?" You don't know this state dude. Texas reliably votes like 55% Republican and 45% Democratic, and there are tons of awesome people, beautiful scenery, and multicultural urban centers here. The state is gerrymandered to hell though

Which leads to a republican supermajority and governor and a shithole state.

Sorry, didn't realize y'all only think in black and white like children. Fuck the most diverse large city in the country, right? And the most Hispanic large city in the country? Fuck those motherfuckers. Shitholes, all of them and every person in them

You seem to be reading things into comments that aren't there. Texas is a shithole because of the government running the State, not the people suffering through it.

I'm failing to see where anyone is blaming them for the shit their republican government is doing.

I’ll make this more extreme as a means of illustrating the point everyone else seems to be trying to get across…

Russia is a nation full of parents who love their children, artists and musicians creating interesting and new art, and rebels developing creative and novel approaches for resisting their fascist government. But, when people say that “Russia sucks”, those aren’t the reasons.

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You have to go back to Ann Richards and the 90s to find actual bipartisainship in texas man. I miss a lot of the people and the food especially, but fuck that state went bonkers after GWB and only gets more nuts. Fuck they pardoned Ken Paxton.

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Just cuz you vote Democrat, doesn't mean you're a good person.

Can confirm, I vote Democrat and I'm still an asshole

Did you used to order sloppy steaks?

Either that or the chicken spaghetti at Chickelinni’s

Fucking degenerate probably put ketchup on it.

Everyone knows you put water on sloppy steaks, and I also used to be a piece of shit.

Was in the RGV right before Trump was elected - and again during the Beto-Cruz fight - the amount of support for conservatives there is MIND BOGGLING. I kept asking 'how the fuck are so many latinos in the can for Cruz and Trump?' I do not understand, especially around Harlingen and the other 'towns' down there.

Democrats are frequently still racist, obedience-loving sacks of shit, they're just the lesser of two evils in a system where the greater of two evils is a pack of utterly cynical greed-as-a-virtue actual fascists.

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