Thanks for brining up the truancy-to-juvi pipeline Tim. It's a fucked up issue a lot of folks don't know about. I'm actually a byproduct of that model myself. I was truant for a good portion of my freshman high school year at the age of 14. It was actually *family court* who sent me there--a byproduct of my parent's divorce and the court…
Thanks for brining up the truancy-to-juvi pipeline Tim. It's a fucked up issue a lot of folks don't know about. I'm actually a byproduct of that model myself. I was truant for a good portion of my freshman high school year at the age of 14. It was actually *family court* who sent me there--a byproduct of my parent's divorce and the court having a psychologist evaluate all of the children. They put me under a "PINS petition" (Person In Need of Supervision) and then sent me to Pleasantville not too far from where the Clintons lived in upstate NY. I was there for 2 years from 2001-2003, starting right after 9/11 happened. It was a shitty place for any kid that age to be stuck at and I had to do some pretty ugly shit to try to survive there. The place went through some things during that period and it made Newsweek during that time (see article below). I came out of it okay and had a goal to get out of there in time to be able to finish high school and enlist in the Marines and my life straightened out from there, but it was an ordeal that affected me deeply at the time and was pretty fucked up in hindsight.
On mentioning Gallego at the end, after enlisting in '04 I ended up doing my first deployment with the unit that replaced Ruben Gallego's in Haditha. Listening to his audiobook was chilling for me and my hat is off to that man and the rest of the folks in his unit for everything they went through there. He's going to clean Lake's clock and be the next senator from the great state of Arizona.
The closing song was chosen because of RFK Jr's brain worm wasn't it? LMFAO
Thanks for brining up the truancy-to-juvi pipeline Tim. It's a fucked up issue a lot of folks don't know about. I'm actually a byproduct of that model myself. I was truant for a good portion of my freshman high school year at the age of 14. It was actually *family court* who sent me there--a byproduct of my parent's divorce and the court having a psychologist evaluate all of the children. They put me under a "PINS petition" (Person In Need of Supervision) and then sent me to Pleasantville not too far from where the Clintons lived in upstate NY. I was there for 2 years from 2001-2003, starting right after 9/11 happened. It was a shitty place for any kid that age to be stuck at and I had to do some pretty ugly shit to try to survive there. The place went through some things during that period and it made Newsweek during that time (see article below). I came out of it okay and had a goal to get out of there in time to be able to finish high school and enlist in the Marines and my life straightened out from there, but it was an ordeal that affected me deeply at the time and was pretty fucked up in hindsight.
https://www.newsweek.com/nightmare-pleasantville-147861
On mentioning Gallego at the end, after enlisting in '04 I ended up doing my first deployment with the unit that replaced Ruben Gallego's in Haditha. Listening to his audiobook was chilling for me and my hat is off to that man and the rest of the folks in his unit for everything they went through there. He's going to clean Lake's clock and be the next senator from the great state of Arizona.
The closing song was chosen because of RFK Jr's brain worm wasn't it? LMFAO
wow that's crazy so sorry you had to go thru that will check out the story.
And yeah. Every day is a theme!