Death is out there for everyone. It comes faster to those who are indifferent to it’s risk factors.

Being a thug is a mighty risk factor. Public Schools should teach it’s products about the things most likely to destroy their lives prematurely and coach them to shun high risk factors and anyone who indulges in them. That doesn’t mean teens can’t get themselves killed. Many will. But at least if they are dancing on thin ice there should be no illusions about what they have done and about the people around them who enabled it and egged them on.

As far as the car wrecks – It’s amazing I and all my friends avoided wrecks growing up in the east bay. I can say I know of no DUIs among my friends. Nowadays it’s common for DUI behavior to flourish in the 16 to 25 age group. My generation somehow seemed to plan drinking back then – it happened, but with preparation(sleepovers, designated drivers) . Maybe booze is easier to come by now. I tend to think that planning of all kinds is just not done the way it used to be. Maybe it was early training by violent nuns and violent parents that got us into planning mode. The Nuns are gone and Parents now don’t use theraputic violence as much as they should have. I think we were brought up better than the current products.

As far as sympathy for anyone properly killed by the police – you lost me at “Gold Grills”. The police kill thugs during the commission of their crimes so that we don’t have to ourselves. Nonetheless I am aware of incredible gun buying among law abiding people lately.

Many good people I know are ready, willing and able to shoot a thug during the commission of a violent crime. You can even take classes on when to shoot at the local Jr College (gun courses). I took the class. We had long discussions of when you shoot and when you wait (for the green light over their head to turn on?). I am unhappy that black “youth” are kept so unaware of what is out there waiting for them when they do commit violent crime. They can be killed summarily during their commission of a violent crime. No discussion, not warning shots. In (Jr College 832PC) class we were severely coached never to fire warning shots and to always bracket the target in the kill zone.

I talk to people who say they can’t jog anymore for being attacked by stray pit bulls. Their attitude toward thugs is the same as toward their pit bulls. No mercy. When an attack comes the response has already been thought out. So you can imagine how the police train and practice shooting. The have to go into thug encounters as their jobs, they can’t refuse the encounter. There is no illusion about how feral these thugs are, they get to know them well.

My black family has always had handguns and long guns back to the early 20th century. They were ready for any attackers black or white. Funny, the potential white attackers are not foremost in our minds nowadays and we’re black. I remember several black women in the 1960s in Oakland keeping loaded handguns in their purses. And they (properly) used them. Oakland was a blast in the 1960s you know. When we got blacks into the Oakland Police Management in the mid 20th Century they quietly issued CCWs to blacks. That way you could stick around and make a statement instead of always leaving and not reporting an incident.

Don’t think any of this is anything new. Commit a violent crime – or go looking like you are – and expect someone to shoot you dead. Police or Civillian. And don’t expect any decent people to cry over your body.

So don’t be a thug. You’ll last a lot longer. We should teach this in school. Along with hand washing and teeth brushing.

Brave New World.

And by that I mean some people are having problems and some people seem to be born not to have such problems. We no longer train people of all walks for social mobility. It’s a Caste system now. Too Bad.

Alan Blueford
http://www.skylineoracle.com/news/2012/05/18/senior-killed-by-oakland-police/

Tay Tabeson
http://www.skylineoracle.com/news/2012/04/30/school-mourns-tay-tabeson-concerned-for-2-injured/

A charter is granted for one organization and it isn’t something that is transferable.

Jim Mordecai

In my experience this is the point that problems become clear and distinct with dull or mentally ill and mentally disordered students.

Historically such students are removed from “real” schools and placed in Continuation Schools. The process complained of here is that OUSD is the local Continuation School and sush undesirables are merely being routed to the place established for them.