IPOD WARNING!

IPOD WARNING – BROKEN NECK….

Yup…. So, here’s the math teacher in the Philadelphia Public School System, 30 years of perfect attendance, popular with the students (or at least as popular as a teacher can be with students in the famous North Philadelphia area). He has the nerve to take an IPOD from a student during class. Heavens! You mean the dude can’t listen to his tunes in math class? This punk has to learn how to add and subtract? (It’s high school – algebra is still a foreign concept – Philly kids are still learning about Dick and Jane and 1+1). Class ends. The IPOD punk and one of his buddies tackle this teacher, throw him to the ground and break his neck, and start beating him. Well, they got caught, and their own classmates helped identify them! (Now, here’s a new concept.) The City of Philadelphia is trying to decide whether or not to try them as adults. Hellooooo!!!!!!!!!

The teacher is in ICU at a local hospital. Even with a broken neck, he was spared paralysis. He called the school principal, asked someone to lock up his classroom for the weekend and said he’d be back as quickly as possible, joking that his perfect attendance record was ruined.

As for the punks? Let them serve some hard time – 16 hours a day mixed with hard labor and school. Return them to a cell – no IPODS please – so they can sleep and wake up to another 16-hour day. Oh – lest I be termed cruel or politically incorrect, any money they make is to be handed over to a victim’s fund. When are adults going to teach their children that violence is not useless, but that it’s just plain wrong? Perhaps they’ll teach it when they learn the lesson for themselves?