WtF???

[pfloyd]

Okay, new ongoing bit from me called WtF??? where I discuss the Things That Make You Go WTF???

First one: A four-year-old girl was told by a teacher that her act of hugging another kindergarten student who had fallen while playing was the wrong thing to do. I guess schools want our kids to become unemotional sheep in the herd. The parents have pulled their child from the school, and are demanding an apology. Good.

Next: a woman in Texas who murdered her 10-month-old by cutting off her arms is found not guilty by reason of insanity.
This shining star was found in her room, covered in blood, holding a knife and listening to a hymn while her daughter was dying from blood loss in her crib.
This verdict stemmed from a retrial, based upon whether or not she realized the wrongfulness of her crime, that she was suffering from religious-based hallucinations and delusions. (Yeah, no shinola, Sherlock...)
In her first trial, she said that she wanted to cut off her baby's lumbs and her own limbs so she could offer them to God.
This one, in my opinion, goes way beyond WtF??? and directly into speechlessness. I am without words to describe what I think could have possibly gone through her mind. I just shudder when I think about this.



I'm still trying to find more information on the case where an inmate who's incarcerated for child porn and raping young boys is allowed via the First Amendement to mail letters to people with graphic descriptions of his activities with child porn.
Need I say more...

Comments

[ryoga77.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who suffered post-partum depression. She felt like she wanted to kill her newborn. I think she took some meds and fought it off. They noticed it early enough.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

I doubt this would be linked with post-partum depression. Dig a little deeper, and now they're finding a tumor in her brain that could have caused her symptoms.
Still... horrific...

a few towns over from me. this is so misreported it's ridiculous.

[volare.livejournal.com]

First one: A four-year-old girl was told by a teacher that her act of hugging another kindergarten student who had fallen while playing was the wrong thing to do. I guess schools want our kids to become unemotional sheep in the herd. The parents have pulled their child from the school, and are demanding an apology. Good.

Not quite.

1)Children in kindergarten in the state of MA must be five years old. thus the child is 5.

2)The children involved had been roughhousing prior to this incident.

3)The girl in question did not just walk up and tenderly hug a classmate. She had been warned off this one before - she wrapped her arms around another child and lifted them up off the ground, yes it can be considered a hug but it's also a precursor to injury and roughhousing AGAIN. The child she lifted up had not fallen previously.
A child did this to my daughter at summer camp last year and then dropped her backwards onto the asphalt, resulting in a bleeding, painful bump on the head and a good scare.

There were six children involved in this incident, not just this one, and of all of them ONLY THIS ONE'S mother is raising a stink. It's not what this parent's histrionics are making it out to be at all.

Re: a few towns over from me. this is so misreported it's ridiculous.

[pfloyd.livejournal.com]

All right, with all that coming to light, I will say it's a fair cop to not having all the information in front of me when making a comment on this. Now knowing all this, I can see the issue more clearly.

Re: a few towns over from me. this is so misreported it's ridiculous.

[ryoga77.livejournal.com]

I think there was an overreaction to the hugging. There was a aide present and he/she told the teacher about what happened. I don't think it was necessary for the aide to tell the teacher or for the teacher to make the kids write a note. They should've told the little girl not to do it again. When I was in school we played rough - boys and girls. That's why they have nurses in school.

Re: a few towns over from me. this is so misreported it's ridiculous.

[dauphinous.livejournal.com]

Um, I don't know anything about the incident or when it happened, but kids only have to be 5 by the end of December to be in kindergarten. :)