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A story that was blip because there was no need to investigate because swift justice suggests it was nipped in the bud.
Upon further investigation, there is more to the story that suggest that SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) may be getting in the way of true justice.
The child that was arrested by the authorities may face not being able to go back to school in Jackson County; so much for no child left behind.
The problem with the possible terrible outcome of this story is largely due to the child that was arrested presents a difference the locals are used to.
Here is a child that from the time he entered Marianna High School he was labeled different.
Children teased him as children do.
After all he was different.
To make matters worse the child that received a laceration during the fight from the child that was taken into custody by the authorities bullied the arrested child and threatened to beat him up daily.
Imagine having to go to school daily in fear of having to fight someone that is bigger and meaner.
This had to be going on under the school administration and teachers.
Adding insult to injury, the injured child may have a history of disturbances throughout his attendance at Marianna High School.
Perhaps it is Marianna High's oversight that allowed this type of tension to escalate to the point that a child felt it necessary to take matters in his own hand to protect himself.
Yes by taking matters in his own hand, he exercised poor judgment.
However, he is a child after all and is subject to making poor judgments.
That is one of the reasons we trust our children to the education system.
Somehow, our education system failed to see what was really going on and two innocent children may be a victim of that failure.
According to a NewsHerald.
com article online the reason for the fight was, "the younger student thought the older student had a bad attitude toward him.
" The younger child being the child arrested.
The information was provided by witnesses on the scene.
Clearly, this should have been enough for authorities to dig deeper.
But, justice is being served.
A child brings a knife to school and after the fact; this child's gang like attitude because he refused, in his shaken state' to pull his pants up when requested by the authorities and his guardian.
Furthermore, the child would not sit up straight upon request choosing instead to slump in his seat.
Obviously, the child must be guilty and was immediately taken to juvenile detention for 21 days because the authority from the sheriff's office that was in charge did not like the child's attitude.
(Now the child's in detention for 21 days even before being tried.
) Yes, it was poor judgment on the child's part.
Again, one must question the system that takes action against a child and doesn't pay attention to the obvious.
Repeat, according to witnesses the older child had a bad attitude towards the younger child.
Suggesting, that it may have been more than just a bad attitude and the child was being bullied.
Again, how does this happen under the very noses of Marianna High School's administration and teachers? Even more frightening is how this made the local news and reporters come to the same conclusion as the authorities.
End of their story.
Finally, after this incident the older child may have been detained because of an altercation between him and his mother.
Where is the follow up story? Is everyone willing to sit back and miss the pattern? Is justice really served by confining a child that needed the system's attention to begin with? Hopefully, the truth will be dragged into the light.
The younger child has admitted to the poor judgment.
His attitude has already changed.
On the other hand, the school's administration and teachers could have been instrumental in changing both children's' judgment through prevention.
After all, that is what taxes are supposedly paying for.
In the immortal words of Paul Harvey, "that is the rest of the story".
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