Duguid had cautioned the jury not to be “blinded by a prejudice for people who carry knives” .*speechless*
He isn’t the only one with that lack of awareness of just who is the victim here, either:
Giving evidence on the first day of the trial, the school’s headteacher, Anna Muirhead, recounted how the 16-year-old became distraught as Bailey lay dying in the school corridor, telling her: “That was my fault,” as they waited for the ambulance to arrive.
Muirhead told the jury: “He was sitting side on to the seat and slightly curled up. He was obviously distraught or upset. I said to him: ‘What’s up?’. He indicated with his head and his hand round the corner: ‘That was me, that was my fault’.”Actually, a lot was your fault, wasn’t it? Since he was a known knife carrier who should have been excluded:
...the quiet, unassuming youngster who appeared to scare nobody was responsible for one of the most horrifying crimes ever perpetrated in Scotland by one school pupil on another.
And his violent, unpredictable behaviour had caused concern for years. As long ago as 2007, the then seven-year-old had attacked another primary school pupil with rocks in a lane. The victim was taken to hospital and his alarmed parents contacted police and the school.
Chillingly, they predicted their son's attacker would one day commit an even more violent crime.
The events of October 28 last year proved them right.
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As early as his first or second year at secondary school, head teacher Anna Muirhead spoke to him individually about knives, emphasising that he must never bring them into the premises. And yet, four years later, the boy was routinely taking a knife to school.How many more stories are we going to read where the authorities are forewarned, take little or no action, and yet are absolved of all blame when the inevitable happens?
This time Scotland and a pupil, last time Leeds and a teacher.
It needs to stop. There must be consequences for those who are paid to take responsibility, yet fail to do so.
"a bureaucratic organization is an organization that cannot correct its behaviour by learning from its errors.”
ReplyDelete"a bureaucratic organization because of it's monopolistic structure and the extralegal powers it takes unto itself cannot be held accountable as those who work there work only for themselves and not for those they are charged with serving".
For bureaucratic organization it can be read as a public sector organization just as easily.
The first quote I cannot say where I found it except it was from someone who subscribes to the Austrian school of economics the second is mine but again is influenced by libertarian views expressed by that same school of thought. If interested and want to know more follow "Cafe Hayek" and "Mises Daily" blogs.
So that answers your question.
What do you expect when schools are run by female heads who all show a leaning to the leftist ideology and have absolutely no stamina for making and carrying out the hard decisions.
ReplyDeleteThis only leaves the Common Purpose PC stupidity to run rampant in the education system to the detriment of the children and society as a whole.
May God help us all.
ReplyDeleteFace/palm. Unless we can stem this tide of PC crap we're all going to hell in a handcart.
ReplyDelete"For bureaucratic organization it can be read as a public sector organization just as easily."
ReplyDeleteOh, always!
"This only leaves the Common Purpose PC stupidity to run rampant in the education system..."
Rooting it out now will never work. It's embedded as firmly as any tick.