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Okay I am sick of hearing this name Trayvon Martin!!  My son comes home today from school and tells me he had to do an essay in his history class today on trayvon and what happened... I think this is so wrong.. What do you guys think about a 6th grader doing this, and the history teacher is an African American.. Is this for a history class??

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Originally Posted by bamagirl10:

Okay I am sick of hearing this name Trayvon Martin!!  My son comes home today from school and tells me he had to do an essay in his history class today on trayvon and what happened... I think this is so wrong.. What do you guys think about a 6th grader doing this, and the history teacher is an African American.. Is this for a history class??


 

 

I believe I would check into this a little bit more. History I don't think so either.

The facts are still out on this highly-publicized case.  Even the district attorney said today that she has not yet decided whether to press any charges, and needs more time to get all the FACTS she requires.  Despite that, there are multitudes on both sides of this issue who firmly believe that THEY have all the facts they need i n order to decide what happened.  Both sides would be well advised to stand aside, stay quiet,  and let ongoing investigations continue.  By no means should a bunch of sixth graders be be assigned to discourse upon this controversial and unsettled issue.

 

Meanwhile, the silly-assed, ERA-promoted "stand your ground" laws need to be rescinded and Wayne LaPierre needs to be told to go pound sand. That much IS certain!

I for one would be on this teacher's case like a bbe after honey. In no way, shape form, or fashion should a sixth grader be given this kind of assignment. Is this teacher tenured; if not she or he should be DIMISSED. If tenured; a black mark or something derogotory entered into the record. It's bad enough for everyone to have to hear this B?S 24/7 but to put it a sixth grader? Dumb!!!!!!

Originally Posted by bamagirl10:

Okay I am sick of hearing this name Trayvon Martin!!  My son comes home today from school and tells me he had to do an essay in his history class today on trayvon and what happened... I think this is so wrong.. What do you guys think about a 6th grader doing this, and the history teacher is an African American.. Is this for a history class??

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I think it was wrong of the teacher to do that. I wonder if the teacher has a TV in class & making the kids watch what's going on about this? It is definitely not history. Let us know what they say about your letter. I think you did the right thing.

Actually I'm for the stand your ground law, or in Alabama's case the castle law. If you kick in my door in the middle of the night, I should not be required to ask you to leave or flee myself. I wouldn't anyway, but at least the law will protect me for killing an intruder. Will the law be abused ? Probably !We don't have the facts on the Martin case yet, and may never know the truth. If he shot the kid for no reason, I hope he goes to jail for a long, long time. However if, as an eyewitness testified , Zimmerman was in fact the one on the ground screaming for help, and no one rendered that help, and he in fact was scared for his life.....then his last line of defense was to shoot and he has that right. Let's do our best to get the facts before deciding what's right  or wrong. I would like the grand jury to look at the case, that should be a requirement of the law.

I have to agree with this.  That is not history and not something that a child should have to write an essay on.  How will the teacher react to someone doing the essay against his belief of what happened.  We don't know the facts of this.  It is mostly hearsay.  As for watching it on his laptop, I think you should contact the principal and something be said about this.  Just what all did the teacher show the students on his laptop?  Was it approved by the principal before viewing?  

 

As for the Castle Law.  If someone breaks into my home with intent to harm me or my family.  I am afraid they will be visited by Walther. 

Originally Posted by bamagirl10:

Thank you guys so much and now just now my son tells me they have watched it on the teachers laptop... Omgosh.....

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Do you know if the teacher will be grading them on this? If she does, it makes wonder how she would grade a child that didn't have the same opinion as hers & how she came up with a grading system for the essay's? This is just so wrong!!

While I don't think it's a suitable topic for sixth-graders, I can remember in the seventh grade having  current events once a week in history class. Could that be it?

 

As for the "Stand Your Ground," I've read that doesn't apply to Zimmerman, but if he's arrested he will plead self-defense. "Stand Your Ground" applies to home, boat, other property (yards), cars, and cubicles at work. It doesn't apply to a public sidewalk.

 

 

I believe you're confusing the castle law with stand your ground. Florida's stand your ground law extends to any place that you have a right to be. In the areas that you named, you can legally "presume" that someone has intent to cause you serious injury or death. In all other areas you cannot "presume", you must be under attack.

Originally Posted by Contendah:

Meanwhile, the silly-assed, ERA-promoted "stand your ground" laws need to be rescinded and Wayne LaPierre needs to be told to go pound sand. That much IS certain!

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That's the NRA.

 

What if one version of the story, that Martin had Zimmerman on the ground threatening to kill him and bouncing his skull off the sidewalk is true? What if that's what the police heard from witnesses? 

 

Is that cause to stand his ground? 

I love what Ted Nugent said; let's just say that God dropped Ted Nugent on this great earth from a parachute and I landed here to enjoy life and the abundance of it. I don't need a document (the constitution) to tell me that I have the right to defend my right to live here on this earth. His point was, every person has the right to defend their life in any situation where they feel that their life is being threatened. No person or government will tell me how I can defend my right to life. God gave me life and I'll defend it however I see fit. The thugs that want to threaten me or my family should be ready to suffer any consequences that might come their way. Whatever that might be.

I'm sick of Trayvon also!  What about the Black Panthers putting out a bounty, dead or alive,  on Zimmerman, the man who allegedly killed him?  Where is the justice system concerning that?  Isn't that conspiracy to commit murder because anyone who goes after the bounty will most likely kill him?  Eric Holder, where are you?

Originally Posted by Contendah:

The facts are still out on this highly-publicized case.  Even the district attorney said today that she has not yet decided whether to press any charges, and needs more time to get all the FACTS she requires.  Despite that, there are multitudes on both sides of this issue who firmly believe that THEY have all the facts they need i n order to decide what happened.  Both sides would be well advised to stand aside, stay quiet,  and let ongoing investigations continue.  By no means should a bunch of sixth graders be be assigned to discourse upon this controversial and unsettled issue.

 

Meanwhile, the silly-assed, ERA-promoted "stand your ground" laws need to be rescinded and Wayne LaPierre needs to be told to go pound sand. That much IS certain!


Jeeezzzzz......you liberals remind me of a minister I once knew that try to persuade me to NOT register for the Selective Service. The same idiot was asked once what he would do if someone broke into his house and began assaulting his wife. His answer? He'd call the cops and request a NON-Christian officer to come out and 'handle' the matter.

 

You liberals kill me...always wanting BIG BROTHER to do your 'dirty work' (self-defense matters) for you...... No wonder America is turning into a nation of pansies.

Originally Posted by Allen7233:

I love what Ted Nugent said; let's just say that God dropped Ted Nugent on this great earth from a parachute and I landed here to enjoy life and the abundance of it. I don't need a document (the constitution) to tell me that I have the right to defend my right to live here on this earth. His point was, every person has the right to defend their life in any situation where they feel that their life is being threatened. No person or government will tell me how I can defend my right to life. God gave me life and I'll defend it however I see fit. The thugs that want to threaten me or my family should be ready to suffer any consequences that might come their way. Whatever that might be.

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Nugent's views count for nothing; he is a blithering psycho!

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