Auntie Charo's Soapbox

It's front page and 'news breaking' stuff, the bullying, the beating, the shooting of pellet guns in out schools....our children seem to want to beat or kill one another, not two weeks after one of their own was buried after having died from being beaten up while at school, which we all thought he'd be safe at.
First of all.....being safe at school is the last place your child is safe at(forget the preposition at the end of the sentence!!!) Your child is either not safe there because his teacher or aide will molest him/er....or.....another child will bully him/er or....beat him/er up.
The next place your children is not safe at is at a park.....especially if the park is at Dededo.....last night....a gang of thugs beat up a few kids while two insensitive kids video taped the beatings...of course they stopped the taping to take part in the beating themselves...equal beating opportunity.....of course!
I'm not going to play shrink and say that the two working parents, the absent grandparents at the home when Johnny and Julia come home is the root cause of the rage that seems to fill the souls of these desparate children. Our kids see violence wholesale on a daily basis! They watch t.v. and are encouraged to watch the promotions from beer or liquor companies that show off those who want to punch out opponent's lights....beat'em up....mean like. Macho....like....
It's great to be the school bully....who wants to be the school wimp?
We blame the school for the child that brings the pellet gun to school....wow, when I was going to school.....if I brought a pellet gun to school, that was the end of my story...I'd probably still be grounded, picking up trash from Lujan's store to the old Town House! I say, make the parents of these children pay the price for that child...it's time the parents got involved in their children's activities.....and people who don't have the time to raise children properly....shouldn't have them....for pete's sake....stop having children you can't raise. This government, DYA, DOC can't raise them for you! I firmly believe that if the parents were held responsible for the criminal actions of their children.....there'd be a little less bullying...a fewer less pellet gun shootings and zero deaths for the beating of students.
As for the violent oriented promotions that encourage the island's youth to fight and be violent....I think it's time that we stood up for our kids and started boycotting those companies that promote and encourage violence....
We really do have to take a stand on violence....the next child injured or beaten to death my be yours....a neice or nephew.....