This is astonishing!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 21:50

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/11/curtis_got_slapped.php



When a child named Curtis Bowen was slapped by his teacher at Martin Luther King Jr., Elementary School, no one really heard about it. Except for President Obama, Vice President Biden, their wives, three senators, and more than 20 other officials.

They all were CC'ed on the whopping 40-page letter that Curtis' mother, Lisa Henry Bowen, sent to school district superintendent John Covington. In it, Bowen makes mind-boggling demands for reparations. One recipient called the letter "one of the craziest things I've ever seen" and leaked it to the Internet. And Lisa Henry Bowen even created her own web site for the occasion: http://www.CurtisGotSlapped.com.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 21:50

Lisa Henry Bowen, who copyrights her name and her son's name throughout the letter, kicks it off by identifying herself as the "intellectual property owner" of fourth grader Curtis Bowen (C). She alleges that Curtis was caught horse playing and was slapped by a teacher named Ms. Curry. Lisa Henry tried to report the teacher to social services for child abuse, but was denied as Curtis' skin wasn't broken.



That sent Lisa Henry into a spiral of outrage. She calls Ms. Curry "one audacious white bitch with 'balls'", and then conducts some informal gonad comparisons. "I happen to have some big 'balls' too. And I ain't afraid to use them." (All emphasis hers, throughout.)

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 21:51

Mrs. Bowen uses her balls-to-the-wall logic to devise a way for the school district to repay her. She claims that Curry slapped 1/4 of Curtis' "million dollar face." Therefore, Lisa Henry encloses a homemade bill for a quarter of a million dollars. The $250K bill is issued to five educational entities, so she's really demanding more than $1 million.

And that's just page eight!

The weird part about Lisa Henry's list of reparations is that most of them have nothing to do with her child being slapped. Sure, she makes a few perfunctory demands to improve the school district, including the introduction of a "We Don't Hit Kids Here" campaign throughout Kansas City and a revocation of Ms. Curry's teaching license. But she reserves the real meat of reparations for Curtis and herself.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 21:51

Curtis shall receive, among many other things: $13,500 worth of Wal-Mart gift cards, a free college education, two trips to Disney World, nine years of private tennis lessons on the Plaza, season tickets to the opera, theater, and ballet, almost a decade's worth of psychological counseling by "the best black child psychologist in the country," a whole orchestra's worth of new musical instruments, a three-week trip to Africa at a five-star hotel, and a personal audience with President Obama.

Lisa Henry's demands are just as WTF-worthy. She demands the full payment of her mortgage, a new car, home remodeling, free psychological, dental, and medical care for the next nine years, and the cherry on the sundae:

Independent consulting contract position with the Kansas City Missouri School district, for the next nine years. My consulting fee begins at $15,000 per month, minimum 6 months contract.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 21:52

Because nothing screams "hire me" like a maniacal 40-page threat.



The mother ironically rants to President Obama and Dr. Covington about how the educational system doesn't "give a damn about black children." She almost loses it at the end:

There was a time, in THIS AMERICA, when a white woman could get away with slapping black children around. There was a time, in THIS AMERICA, when a black woman had no choice, but to accept her children being slapped, whipped, rapped [sic, we think], abused, molested and psychologically tortured by this white supremacist society...There WAS a time. I AIN'T THAT BLACK MOTHER, THIS AIN'T THAT TIME!!!!!! THIS AIN'T THAT AMERICA!!!!!!!!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 21:53

A message to the haters: Lisa Henry Bowen (C) invites anyone who thinks she's gone a little overboard to "KISS MY ENTIRE BLACK ASS!!!!!! I HAVEN'T BEGUN TO GO FAR ENOUGH!!!!!!!"

Should any of the recipients of the letter wish to meet with Curtis or Lisa Henry ... well, they couldn't afford it. Lisa Henry's personal appearance fee is $3,000 for 45 minutes, and she will not appear without her husband (an additional $3,000.) Don't even think about getting an audience with Lisa Henry's property, Curtis. He costs $11,000 for 30 minutes.

famagusta99


Joined: 23/11/2010
Posts: 68

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 22:09

Not really. The problem about the internet is that is gives an audience to people who are....lets say ..."reality challenged"; people who BI (=Before the Internet) were only known to their (often long-suffering) family and neighbors.



After I saw the saga of the 11-year old(!) "Jessie Slaughter" (star performance: her father :( )....nothing surprise me much. Google it and watch the videos, if you like.



That said: in my home country it is forbidden by anyone to strike a child. Parents have gone to court for doing what this teacher did.

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 22:40

Personally I think she is under charging. She should get a decent agent. I'd have asked for at least $15,000 worth Wal-Mart gift cards....

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
23/11/2010 22:41

She should give Max Clifford a call.

anlusan


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
24/11/2010 02:20

man have you seen that boy, i would have slapped him too.



Tip for you guys.

In the elite boarding schools in the US, the elite colleges in the UK, the schools, and colleges that produce the presidents, prime ministers, CEO heads of international corporations. The pupils get slapped. Discipline, creating an atmosphere where learning can take place, etc is crucial for success.



The reason why they ban slapping in the common schools is because they don't want the kids to learn. If they had any sense of leadership, etc, they wouldn't want to work in a t-mobile phone shop or at heathrow, or chicago airport as a security guard.



There was once upon a time, when if you kid got slapped by the neighbour the parent would go and thank the neighbour. Now school kids hit the teachers, and the teacher gets a lengthy sentence for saying boo.

famagusta99


Joined: 23/11/2010
Posts: 68

Message Posted:
24/11/2010 03:01

So, the schools in Scandinavia does not want pupils to learn anything?

Whaw, that was news to me.

See:

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/laws-on-corporal-punishment.gif

anlusan


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
24/11/2010 03:44

well, don't let the obvious get in the way for your search for understanding



elite boarding schools and colleges that produce the movers and shakers - disciple, including physical discipline

comprehensives and the like that produce the security workers at airports - no discipline.



a canny coincidence. - don't think so

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
24/11/2010 04:04

Anlusan - I have NO idea from where you get your information, but I must disabuse you of the notion physical discipline is the norm in Private (Public) schools in England. I was educated in a Public school, and if one teacher had raised a hand, or thrown anything at any pupil, from the Head down, they would have been sacked. This, 50 years ago. My daughter was privately educated, and gained a scholorship to a boarding school for her senior years, where the late Queen Mother was on the board of Governors. Again, NO physical punishment was allowed at either school, nor would I have sent my daughter to any school that laid a hand on her. The pupils had detentions if they were recalcitrant in any way. I have never raised my hand to a soul and never will, so would never condone anyone else doing so. I live here in Windsor; over the road in Eton, is Eton College, no physical disciplined there either - yet it is the place for Queens, Prime Ministers, Princes et cetera to be educated....

anlusan


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
24/11/2010 04:19

ms garnet, you are telling porkies. Shame on you

the cane was not abolished until 1999 in private schools and state schools in 1987.

anlusan


Joined: 22/07/2010
Posts: 61

Message Posted:
24/11/2010 04:23

and still more porkies - shame on you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College#Corporal_punishment



Corporal punishment



Eton used to be renowned for its use of corporal punishment, generally known as "beating". In the 16th century, Friday was set aside as "flogging day".[43]



Beating was phased out in the 1980s, the last recorded caning being administered by then Lower Master Jack Anderson to Sebastian Doggart, in January 1984.[44] Until 1964, offending boys could be summoned to the Head Master or the Lower Master, as appropriate, to receive a birching on the bare posterior, in a semi-public ceremony held in the Library, where there was a special wooden birching block over which the offender was held. John Keate, Head Master from 1809 to 1834, took over at a time when discipline was poor. He restored order by vigorous and frequent use of the birch. He is supposed to have flogged 80 boys publicly on one day.



Anthony Chenevix-Trench, Head Master from 1964 to 1970, abolished t

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
26/11/2010 00:05

anlusan - re-read my posting. I was clearly (OBVIOUSLY) talking about Eton College now - hardly in the 16th Century!!!!!!!!!!!!! As regards the school I attended (Chroham Hurst Public School for Girls) it was clearly more enlightened ahead of many other schools as regards banning any form of physical discipline. My daughter who attended Eton End, then King Edward's was also at two schools that don't practise corporal punishment and as Wikipedia (though not always the most reliable of points of reference) confirms - Eton College doesn't engage in corporal punishment now either, and rightly so; at one time being famous for fagging and beatings by not only staff, but senior pupils. Public (Private) schools have always been autonomous, hence being called Independent schools - in only a few criteria do they have to adhere to nationwide paradigms. Some Public schools ended physical discipline many years ago, others took longer to become enlightened.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
26/11/2010 06:59

In his novel, 'The Remittance Man's Roots', [read by several forum members], Heaton Craig portrays some sickeningly shocking accounts of prep and public school corporal punishment brutality - the pages containing these stories are frequently seen to be tear-stained when a new book is returned after being borrowed.