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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
I wish she would. For a while teachers were sending stories into a columnist here until the school figured out who it was and shut them up.
I have vast respect for the tough mothers.
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I'll tell ya what Pete. In relatively lily-white, Wheaton IL, center of the conservative Christian universe...minority moms got nothing but the best service from the Wheaton PD when it came to the youth officer service supporting them in dealing with a wayward adolescent who was headed in the wrong direction.
The tough mom's called the cops on their destructive or law-breaking progeny and the Wheaton cops were more than happy to spend the time helping the mom decide what action to take.
What I object to, and I object to it on pretty much any issue...is broad brush bullshit on internet forums. What we get hereabouts pretty much every time when it comes to some punk-ass gangbanger or prospective gangbanger who's out looking for trouble and ends up finding it...it the good old broad brush.
You can't imagine the grief I took over at Radiofreeliberal.com when I quoted Mike Royko's column that those guys shot up by Bernie Goetz on the subway in NYC years ago were punks who were out looking for trouble and found it.