What the kids are up to this summer

My students are getting arrested.

Since school let out, a dozen of my former students have been arrested. Shoplifting, drugs, sexual assault, stupid stuff. Three females, 3 white - most black males.

Could the economy have anything to do with it?

With no jobs and the lack of good sense to be nice to authority figures (more in a tad), getting arrested is inevitable. (I keep telling my students they don't have to like authority figures - teachers, admins, and cops - but they do need to learn to be polite out of self defense. Is that racist? Or practical?) Three quarters of those arrested were black, most of those male. At a point that (any given year) less than 20% of my classes are made of black males.

I have lost any respect for one - I have written about Curtis before. This time he apparently has started (or continued) shoplifting and took a friend along. They got caught. (No real surprise - the friend is a looker with an attitude. She is not who you would want on a crime with you unless she was to be the distracter.) Curtis was out almost immediately - posting all of this on his FB. She has an absent mother and lives with her grandmother, who apparently is not posting bail.

Since he is posting all of this on his FB - don't you think there would be a little remorse on Curtis' page? Nope. Business as usual, whining about nobody calling him and how he is going to be a BMOC this fall(if he doesn't cost himself his scholarships with his idiocy).

I hope somewhere in here he grows up - but it isn't likely.