Thursday, April 26, 2012

Three times kids have come up in the news today

Now I don't honestly know what's going on in the world, but when you happen to have two kids come up in the news, though for two totally different things (both dealing with authorities), then something is seriously wrong here.
 
Now the first story here I caught this morning on GMA (Good Morning America), though from what I had read it had taken place last Sunday, but has been getting major media attention since the mother of the child here (a 4 year old little girl), had posted what happened to Facebook. Now I can understand the need for the pat downs considering everything that's been going wrong with our world as of late, but I'm sorry to say, we're talking about a 4 year old little girl that is an innocent child and is still learning the ways of the world here. I mean from what I've read in the article, this little girl is now having nightmares thanks to what happened and that's seriously not right. Personally I'm thinking that when it comes to children under 5 or 6 (since even I'm not sure what the right age would be to start this all at), they shouldn't have to go through a pat down at all, I mean come on they really have no idea what in the world is going on around them and they're still exploring the world. Plus what didn't help things is that this girl had just learned about "Stranger Danger" in her school, and here she now is going through a pat down at an air port where they've supposedly lessened the pat down procedures for children.
 
Plus what also didn't help, was the TSA agents in the first place had zero compassion for anything that was happening to the child in the first place, I mean come on you're dealing with a 4 year old child here, I mean don't they have any kids of their own at all (I'm thinking not at this rate)? The child is as of last heard still having nightmares from the entire thing that's taken place, and I know personally when it comes to nightmares, that something like that isn't going to be going away any time soon.
 
This second one I got in my e-mail today from the Arizona Republic about a kindergartner that had been arrested after hitting the school workers, and I'm thinking that's taking things a bit far, yes it's good that the officer didn't hand cuff the kid, but seriously arresting the kid come on here.
 
I know that there are those out there that think that everything wrong should be punished with locking a person up, but that's the problem that's currently leading to the over crowding that we're currently having in our jails and prisons in the first place. Then again the one thing that I do know is that shoving a person behind bars is a money game, always has been and always will be. After all not only do they get money from the city and state, but they also get money from the prisoner in the end as well.
 
Now with a child that's a whole different set of rules there, but we're talking about a kid that might have something wrong with him and locking him up is seriously not the answer in the least here at all. It doesn't matter if he never was charged for anything doing this is going to do more damage than is good later on down the line, after all look at the "Scared Straight" program that they had around for a while, in the end it had proven to have failed big time. So while the answers are fleeting since no one knows how to deal with the current and future generations, trying to get them as kids is the wrong way to go in any case at all.
 
This last one I caught just a short bit on with GMA this morning as well, but it deals with something that I would seriously wish had been different. It had been a young boy with his father at a baseball game, and the player for the team (and I didn't catch the teams that had been there either) tossed a ball up into the stands. Now the boy here is wanting the ball and waiting for it, when right out of the blue a hand reaches up and snags it right out of the air. Turns out the hand belonged to a gentleman right in front of the young boy that gave the ball to his girlfriend, and they completely ignored the little kid behind them the entire time, the kid was balling his eyes out over the whole thing.
 
Going to a baseball game is a time for a child to create memories of the event with their parent (mother or father, depending on who brought them at the time), and one of the things that tends to help out is getting a ball that was used in the game, but to rob a child of those memories and turn them to something bad, that's not right at all. Heck the last time that I remember something like this happening, the kid that had wanted the ball in the first place, he did end up getting it because another kid that had gotten the ball in the first place, ended up giving him the ball after he had already gotten the ball. The kid that had given the ball away to the other ended up getting a far better reward in the end, and it had proven the sportsmenship in the end with what the kid did. Personally I happen to like what had happened in that game, but this last game I'm sorry to say but that was just wrong giving that ball to your girlfriend instead of the kid behind you that should've gotten it in the first place. That's just me, but I would've thought better and made sure that the kid had gotten it, after all one never knows and could get a far better reward later on for doing just that.

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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