In Howard County, Maryland, a student at Howard High School was arrested recently and charged with the murder of a 26-year-old man who was shot at the local mall.
This led to a new rule voted on by the Maryland State Board of Education, mandating that when students accused or convicted of violent crimes transfer to new schools, the school they leave is obliged to the new school to...how about this...LET THEM KNOW!
Up until now, it was optional for the student's old school to tell the new one. Optional!
When the student was arrested, he had a loaded, fully automatic ghost gun in his backpack, and was wearing an ankle monitor. He was under arrest for an attempted murder that has left his victim paralyzed.
I remember getting in trouble for not wearing official white sox in phys ed. I should have told the teacher I had to cover up my ankle monitor, and white would clash.
There is what fancy speakers call a "disconnect" among people whose jobs involve keeping track of people's misbehavior. It reminds me of the case in my Baltimore County, in which a young girl was slowly and systematically beaten to death by the muscleman boyfriend of her mother. A social worker knew all about this torture, even brought her cases notes to the trial when summoned, but said that it was not part of her job description to notify the police that a child was being murdered slowly.
She said it was a family matter and no one else's business.
It became police business, of course, and court business, but she tended to her own knitting and kept it all in the family for reasons that still elude me.
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