Recently Spring Valley High School in South Carolina has received a lot of attention for the video above when their school officer slammed a student to the ground from her desk. As a result there has been an outcry from Liberals that this is evidence that African American students are treated differently than Caucasian students. CNN has been very vocal on the issue and only recently admitted that the student may be responsible for what happened.
Apparently the student was using her phone during the middle of class and was asked several times by her teacher to put the phone away. When she refused, school administrators arrived and asked her again. When she continued to refuse the officer was called as a last resort, and she still refused. That's when this video was filmed of him taking her out of her seat when she refused to leave the classroom as asked. Liberals argue that she should have been allowed to use her phone in class and the school should have ignored her behavior. The way the school and the officer handled the situation was racist in their view.
To diffuse the situation, the officer was fired. This lead to a school protest from students of all races claiming that the officer was not racist, and that the student is at fault for what happened. Recently Raven Symone has been under fire for blaming the student for what happened, and taking a similar stance as the students of the high school. As a result Symone has been called a racist for the comments she made on her show The View (despite the fact that she is African American herself).
I think there's a larger issue here that needs to be addressed, which is contrary from the issue Liberal Media would like you to focus on. Many of the commenter's on Liberal Media have argued that there is a disproportionate number of African American students who are arrested at public schools compared to Caucasian students. However, what they are completely missing is, why are students being arrested at all? Instead of arguing that African American students shouldn't be arrested for their actions, or that there should be an equal number of arrests, the media should be focusing in on why students are disrespecting their teachers. Recently a video was posted by high school students who harassed their teacher.
As can be seen from the video one student raises a desk to his teacher, thus assaulting her. This is a perfect depiction of a classroom gone a muck. She calls for security several times, but no one comes. Why should any teacher have to deal with this behavior?
I recall when I was in high school, that one of my teachers mentioned that at a previous school he taught at, one of his students attacked him and tried to stab him with a pencil. This is crazy. I'm embarrassed to belong to this generation, and saddened that the population only gets worse. This isn't an issue of race, but rather disrespect within our society. Parents need to raise better children. Rather than blame school officials when their children get punished, they should take a long look at themselves in the mirror and wonder why their child was punished in the first place.
Who is really to blame, school officials and school officers, or the parents who raise those students? Let me know in the comments below.
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