Reppin for the homies

Hotair alerts me to this remarkably well-behaved gentleman from my hometown of Wichita, Kansas.

"Via Bill Amos, a symphonie du bleep for lazy Friday afternoon. Interesting case here, actually. The charge was battery stemming from the defendant having spit in the eye of a sheriff’s deputy. The sentence: 13 years in prison, three more than the prosecutor had asked for. Why so long? Because he’s HIV-positive, which makes that loogie a potentially (albeit unlikely) deadly weapon."



This is behavior I see on almost a daily basis at the school where I work. It is refreshingly shocking when I watch someone else withstand it. Cutting through the ego defenses of kids who do this to get to a place of greater responsibility is extremely difficult work. But if we don't do it early, this and worse is the consequence later.

A nice reminder of why I do the work I do, abuse and all.