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Updated: 11:13 PM Jun 15, 2009
Juveniles Charged in Parkview Arson
Meridian, Miss. Arrests have been made for vandalism and arson at Parkview Elementary School in Meridian. Posted: 4:27 PM Jun 15, 2009Reporter: Andrea Williams Email Address: andrea.williams@wtok.com |
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Posted by: JC
Location: Meridian
on Jun 16, 2009 at 07:42 AM
Where were the parents of these kids? Teachers cannot be held resposible for raising them AND educating them--not during the 7 hours a day that the kids are at school. Good behavior must be taught in the home BEFORE students get to school. Good grief--Parents, take charge of your family. Get a grip on your kids. Make your kids take responsibility for their actions and suffer the consequences when they pull crap like this. This school of thought seems to have died long ago and now, look at the mess we're in. People who are not willing to assume the full responsibilities of parenting and all it entails should NOT have children!
Posted by: Anonymous
on Jun 16, 2009 at 07:22 AM
How do we know that the parents of these troubled kids are not hard working people? With the economy like it is, they just may be at their second or even third jobs. We should not jump so fast to blame these parents. And who says that the parents will not be held responsible?
Posted by: Mischa
Location: Meridian
on Jun 16, 2009 at 05:23 AM
These children need to be sent directly to juvenile detention and their parents need to be arrested for child neglect. Obviously, the parents are not responsible enough to teach the chiildren to not burglarize other people's property and start fires. I agree that just because a person can bear children doesn't make them good parents. There are too many kids having children and have no clue as how to rear them. This is a great problem in this area. Parents need to be parents, set rules and expect the children to abide by them. Stop blaming others for the actions of your children. Good teachers are not going to jeopardize their career and lives by mistreating children. Get real and face facts. The children are delinquents and need to be punished.
Posted by: Anonymous
Location: Meridian
on Jun 16, 2009 at 04:55 AM
What happened to the days when you screwed up at school and got in trouble. you got it when you got home also. I geuss it's just easier to blame someone else when your child or children gets in trouble. As far as the teacher is mean to me theory. Have you ever thought hey if my child would show some respect and inclination to learn. Some of the mean teachers wouldn't be mean if they are mean. And yes the parents should be held responsible for what their children did.
Posted by: LC
Location: Hattiesburg
on Jun 15, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Anonymous- it's so ridiculous that you would blame teachers by assuming that they must have mistreated the kids and therefore it is somehow justified for the kids to have done this. Do you not question the parents about where they thought their kids were when they were doing this? When kids are as young as these are, parents have to assume some of the responsiblility for this amd be held accountable. Maybe when we start holding parents accountable for young kids actions-then the parents who don't won't to take on this type of serious responsibility will quit having kids!
Posted by: Charles
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Since the juveniles will be slapped on the hands, the parents need to be held financially responsible for any damage their "little angels" caused. Parents, you are responsible for your children. Do your job!
Posted by: anonymous
Location: meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 09:12 PM
Children are not mistreated, but loved and respected. Parents need to stop blaming the teachers and be responsible for their own children. The children said it was something stupid and that they had nothing else to do. Are teachers responsible for the children's activities, well-being and etc. after school? I think not.
Posted by: voter
Location: north Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 08:37 PM
Anonymous.. I will NOT attack you, however, your reasoning is a perfect example of why our schools are in the shape they are in. Blame the teachers....not the kids. As far as I'm concerned, I say: bring in the parents and make THEM accountable for the behavior of their children. How else will the behavior change? If the parents are allowed to think, "it's the teacher's fault"...then where is the need for change. With your thinking.. let me ask you this: IF .. and I mean IF..the teachers had mistreated the kids, then why didn't the parents do something about that then??? and how in the world would a teacher have done something wrong to kids aged 9-13???? You are a piece of work, Anonymous. I'd love to see what kind of kids YOU have. Always blame someone else, right?? What a piece of work you are.
Posted by: Anonymous with sense
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 08:30 PM
The teachers at this school do not mistreat their students. Parkview has a great principal that works very closely with an excellent and dedicated staff who love their students. Maybe you were mistreated in school, but these teachers do not abuse their authority. I can see you apparently missed out on instruction in proper grammar, plurals, and verb tenses.
Posted by: Anonymous
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 08:09 PM
Not gang related? Maybe un-organized gang related, but isn't this how things get started? A group of kids acting together is not a "gang of kids?" There's probably more groups of kids out there getting ready to act stupid as you put it.
Posted by: confusd...
on Jun 15, 2009 at 08:08 PM
...this reminds me of the time when two "liberals" were walking down the road and came upon an elderly man lying in the ditch beside the road, obviously badly beaten and robbed and slipping into a coma. One of the two men said to the other, "Oh, my gosh; this is horrible. We must go find the person who did this to him; he could be hurt and in need of our assistance!" Students being mistreated by teachers????? No wonder they are so hard to educate...
Posted by: David
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 07:59 PM
Mistreated by the teacher? Give me a BREAK! I am so sick of hearing that they poor little darling was mistreated by the teacher and that is why they are mad and do bad things. No! that is not it. It is because there parents do not want to be parents, they just want to play being a parent. Just because you can have children does not mean that you can be a parent. These parents need to be held responsible for the actions of their children. But I seriously doubt that these parents know anything about being responsible!
Posted by: Pam
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 06:25 PM
No, the parents need to raise their children. Why is everything also blamed on the teachers and the school system? Even if the students were mistreated by teachers, how is vandalism and arson the answer?
Posted by: J.R.
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 05:58 PM
"Anonymous", you must be kidding about kids being mistreated. If I think I'm being mistreated at work, would I feel justified to break into, burglarize and set fire to my workplace?
Posted by: Anonymous
Location: Meridian
on Jun 15, 2009 at 05:35 PM
The meridian public schools needs security guard year round and they also need to install camera.I bet you money this have to do with kids being mistreated by adult teachers at the school |
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You said it Disgusted!! People need to take personal responsibility for themselves, their children, and their financial situations. It's amazing what direct correlations can be found between juvenile delinquents and their parents'/guardians' "ride the system" attitudes. Want some change in our city? Get rid of the welfare "gimme" attitude and make people WORK! And don't give me the BS of there aren't any jobs. How about go get a GRANT (they give them away to the underprivileged all the time) and go to college?! Some CHOOSE to sit on their rumps and collect a check- all the while bemoaning the crime, etc in their areas. Parents should teach their children to respect authority- be it teachers, police officers, or adults in general. Most of the discipline problems are because the kids know there are no consequences for their actions. As for the arson- where were these kids' parents?! MAYBE they were working, but don't they have relatives that could watch the kids?! That's what I do...
Everyone who is screaming about police protection, staking out the schools, picking up kids for curfew violations, etc. needs to DEMAND from our city leaders MORE police. Instead of spending millions for fru-fru projects, put that money into police resources and manpower, and pay them like your life depends on it! Same for teachers! These are two of the lowest-paid professions, and they are shaping the minds of our future leaders and protecting our lives and property. Teachers being mean? Whatever!! They aren't allowed to discipline these little punks because their sitting-at-home-getting-a-check parent will sue the school system to try and get MORE free money. Untie the hands of our teachers and police and let them do their jobs!!
You should know the parents will not ever to be able to pay $50,000. Neither will the kids, Taxpayers pay... and then they will pay even more cause more trouble will follow until the parents are held to the strictest accountability. If your kid gets picked up for Curfew you are fined... I see kids out all of the time why not pick them up..
With repeated incidents why was not someone there watching trying to catch.... If someone broke into my house twice in a week I would be waiting for them the third time...WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHOOL SECURITY... POLICE COULD HAVE STAKED OUT THE SCHOOL..
THESE KIDS ARE NOT STUPID AS STATED BY POLICE. THEY MADE A POOR DECISION... YOU ALL KNOW IF YOU CALL A CHILD STUPID THEY WILL NEVER TRY TO BE BETTER....PARENTS NEED TO KNOW WHERE THERE KIDS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING>>>
JC in Hattiesburg, I agree that we need to start holding parents responsible for their children's actions. I think if there was a very large fine charged to the parent when children are habitual behavior problems in school or out we would see some parents get to work on trying to raise their children. If they had to go to juvenile the fee would be even larger and they would have to do community service. Instead parents don't know what their children are doing they are working 2-3 small jobs at minimum wage so they can buy their children cell phones that they have in school which I thought were against the school policy anyway for them to have but, they all have them concealed so they can text their friends across the room, call their mama when they don't want to stay at school or call because they think the teacher is being mean to them when they ask them to do a little classwork instead of talking and disrupting the class. My children have said they feel sorry for teachers.
I'm very concerned about our safety in all communities in Meridian. It is time for neighborhoods to work together and develop neighborhood watches. Teenagers are driving or walking into areas they do not live in and appear not to be visiting anyone in the area. WTOK's opening line at 10:00 "Parents do You know where your children are?" needs to be of great concern to parents if their children are not at home by this time. Nothing is open and they do not need to be out walking the streets. It's time to set some boundaries for children. Respect for others property should be taught at home this includes walking through other people's property day or night. I'm tired of hearing chldren say there is nothing in this town to do. When I was growing up in a smaller town where there was nothing to do at all- you were in the house no later than 6. There was supper, clean up, family tv, practice your piano or guitar, homework, read a good book, help dad or mom with chores and bedtime. Fri/Sat 10.
yes parents do know where there are but it is the same blacks are not looking after their kids when they do wrong,but what about the white kids breaking in houses did they parents know where they where, it is all bad when blacks do something but mommy and the police cover up what white kids do because who; their parents are lets talk about that
Its going to get worse, if these thugs are brought under control. Its not the teachers or administration. Its parents fault because they don't discipline them. Its the judicial system because they don't make these thugs pay enough. Make them get up every morning and work everyday. There is enough trash on the roads they could stay busy. Lock them up at night.
the question is parents do you really know where your children are in the black community. We all need to stand together as one to teach our children better home training. This should be an example to their classmates of what will happen when you abuse the law
Walk a mile. Have any of you been inside a classroom lately? Teachers are paid and treated like minimum wage employees. Some do just enough to get by. Notice anyone's accreditation rating being reduced lately. On the other hand have you been a child of a single parent in the last decade? Or the parent who barely makes ends meet every month?
I feel so sorry fot the teachers I was just telling my kids when I was in school and the teachers had to call your parents you would get a whipping. The teacher was always in the right. You didn't get in trouble like that because that was a reflection of the parent. Not no more these kids will curse you out and the parent will come in and join them. Wow look how things has changed.
when this story first hit the air I thought how sad. I was sadden to hear of kids ranging from ages 9 thru 14 could carry out such a cruel act which carries a heavy consequence. When I was that age the only things on our minds was playing jump rope,playing with dolls, or playing balls we certainly would've never did thought of doing anything like that because you know why we wouldnt been scared of the police our mother would've been the one we feared because if she would've known we had did something like that she would've killed us. Yes those was the good ole days. My point is parents plays an important role in the lives of their kids. I was raised in a single family household who worked 8 to 10 hours a day with 6 kids me being next to the oldest. All of us is grown educated and living respectful lives. I'm 36 and I like to think I'm not that far removed from young ones but these kids is of a different breed and if these parents don't get a grip we will be readin more stories like this
Our Mayor and police needs to put a stop to the foolisn ways are going on in our town or there will be more crime in Meridan like in Jackson.One thing that needs a stop put it is the way boys and men wear their pants below their (behinds). This gang and thug attitude has got to go. Kids and young men have no respect for no one these days , I see it everyday driving down the street and walking around in the stores,it's way out of hand and we're heading same road Jackson and other big cities are heading. Clean up the attitudes and the rest will fall into place.
The investigating officer stated that the children were bored and didn’t have anything to do, and it is proposed above, by Mr. “Anonymous Location” that the problem may be with the adult teachers mistreating the kids. I don’t guess it has anything to do with the moral values being taught to these children at home. Where are their values? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that within that very same complex, there is a park with covered pavilions, water and playground equipment, including ball fields. For that matter, Highland Park is not that far away. The news media has recently stated that things are going so well at Meridian High School, that we have found it necessary to provide police protection at the school, during school. Don’t blame teachers! They are attempting to provide these kids with some sort of positive values and direction in their life, but they can’t go home with them. Society should double teacher’s salaries, and provide them with arms. Especially in Meridian.