On Man found dead struggled with money
Posted on November 25 at 9:25 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
I am so very sorry for your loss.
On Body found in vehicle in Kiwanis Pond
Posted on November 24 at 8:36 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I don't feel like what michellemt640 said as I only assumed that because the article said there was no tracks in the snow, it must have happened before it snowed.
My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
On Body found in vehicle in Kiwanis Pond
Posted on November 24 at 2:38 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Nurse, The article states that there was no tracks in the snow, so my assumption would be that it happened before it snowed.
It could be many, many things. Suicide, murder, drunk, accident. Who knows at this point?
On Four teens injured in crash
Posted on November 21 at 2:27 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
etown,
Thank you. That was exactly my point. The school system should deal with some of this stuff in the school system. What happened to Saturday detention? And what is the point of OSS? In my opinion, you are rewarding the kids by giving them a few days off school! Most of these kids are left home alone because parent/parents are at work during the day. So, the kid sits home, sleeps in late, watches tv and plays video games. Yeah, thats punishment. As a parent who is lucky enough to stay home, when my child had OSS, the day was spent washing walls and cleaning after I made sure work that was missing was made up. No fun time here. But, that is not the case for most of the kids.
And who is it punishing when it is the parent who has to pay for an attorney and cost costs? I am involved in my childs school and try to back them as much as possible but these kids that are mearly testing the boundries don't belong in the court system!
Kids who fight, bring drugs, weapons, etc., belong in the court system. Not some poor girl who in a emotionally break down yells something inappropriate or swears. Disorderly conduct charges in that situation is just plain stupid!
On Four teens injured in crash
Posted on November 21 at 7:17 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I agree disorderly is a confusing charge for me too. I have found, in the school system, you can be charged for disorderly for a vast extreme of behaviors. One child that suffers from emotional shut downs(school definition:refusal to respond/disrespectful) can be "arrested" for disorderly, another child will get disorderly for getting into an all out fist fight in which the teachers/police also get hit while trying to break it up. Another child has a break down and yells at the teacher, "I don't care" in a flurry of emotion, disorderly. A child can be "arrested" for disorderly on such a wide range of behaviors, I put little stock in that charge.
The other charges, theft, child neglect, etc. are something else.
On Three hospitalized in alcohol-related crash
Posted on November 3 at 4:16 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Hannah,
Josh isn't the 17 year old. He is 35, according to the story.
Posted on October 27 at 4:43 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Hmmm. I was trying to email a teacher yesterday and it said that mailbox didn't exist. Then, today my anti-virus popped up while I was on the district site. My anti-virus seemed to block whatever it was.
On Woman sues Wis. family that she says enslaved her
Posted on October 2 at 3:53 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Gabby,
I read in one of the articles that she was also cleaning the oldest ones office and medical equipment. He was an adult at the time. Perhaps that is why he was brought into it?
I still contend at 18, you know very little. And this girl was in a strange country being told some very scary things about what would happen if people saw her. I don't know how she could have felt she could turn to anyone for help. IMHO. I moved out at 16. Did I know enough, no. But I was in my country, my home town, with my childhood friends and family nearby. This girl had no one except the people that were using her. That was my point.
On Woman sues Wis. family that she says enslaved her
Posted on October 2 at 2:37 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
And do what Gabby?
Who knows if she even could have gotten anywhere.
Did she have a passport? Money to buy a ticket home? The knowledge to do so, if she did?
We don't know enough information to know if she even truly believed that was an option.
Perhaps she felt if she tried to leave, she would be arrested or worse. We just don't know what she thought or what those people filled her head with.
What we do know is that these people preyed upon her. They used her. They abused her, perhaps not pysically but financially and emotionally. She came here from another country when she was the ripe old age of 18. How much knowledge did you have when you were 18? Enough to rationally think out her situation?
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On Janesville school buses to get seat belts
Posted on November 26 at 2:36 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
This is the last "arguement" I had with my father-in-law before he passed away. He used to love to goad me into an "arguement" as he loved the debate. This was back when they passed the law about kids being in belts, if I remember right. It was 20 years ago, so my memory is a little vague. My arguement was, why were they allowed to dictate what I chose to do in my own vehicle and then tell me I had to put them on a school bus with no buckles? Laws should be made to protect people from other people, not from themselves. Lame, I know. I was young once too.
School busses normally do not go very fast, are very large and the chance of injury is small. Busses also transport kids to events on I90 which of course, is a different story.
The bus driver being able to watch the road and make sure all the kids stay buckled would be difficult, to say the least. Unless the kid is up running around, how could you tell and keep your eyes on the road, where they belong? All I can say is that when I drive my childrens friends to and from events, the children whose parents require them to buckle normally buckle up automatically in my car. The children whose parents don't, have to be told.