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Thread ID: 4114 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2002-12-20
2002-12-20 13:43 | User Profile
"A defiant Brooklyn mom has kept her 14-year-old daughter out of her high school the entire year because she considers it too dangerous - and she's willing to go to jail over the matter. Alexandra has not been in school for six months. She's missed the first 31/2 months of her freshman year - and no one has noticed.
[img]http://nypost.com/photos/web12160203.jpg[/img]
Informed about the missing schoolgirl, Chancellor Joel Klein's office said they would immediately file a child-abuse complaint against the parents with the city's Administration for Children's Services. "
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[url=http://nypost.com/seven/12162002/news/regionalnews/64735.htm]http://nypost.com/seven/12162002/news/regi...lnews/64735.htm[/url]
Joel Klein: [img]http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2002-10/4273775.jpg[/img]
2002-12-20 16:55 | User Profile
That picture's definitely worth a thousand words.
2002-12-20 19:31 | User Profile
Penn, I wish you wouldn't run propaganda cartoons from Der Sturmer... Oh, nevermind, that's a photo. :D
2002-12-20 19:47 | User Profile
Photo taken during intermission of the 2002 Steve Lawrence - Edie Gormet tour.
2002-12-20 22:15 | User Profile
Baby phat?!?
:o
2002-12-20 22:23 | User Profile
I know who that guy is -- it's the wife's divorce lawyer from the Fletch movies.
2002-12-21 10:29 | User Profile
He'd look even better in a lice-ridden striped uniform.
2002-12-21 17:16 | User Profile
So the mother can be charged with child abuse for not sending her to the states schools that are overrun with out of control criminals. So child abuse is now defined as not allowing the state to endanger your child.
2002-12-22 15:51 | User Profile
Hate to say it, but I'd leave. Why put up with authorities like that? Just leave the area and go to a safer district. If you can't beat them, leave them.
-J
2002-12-23 12:29 | User Profile
Originally posted by Hereward@Dec 20 2002, 19:31 ** Penn, I wish you wouldn't run propaganda cartoons from Der Sturmer... Oh, nevermind, that's a photo. :D **
He looks like the arch villain Simon bar Sinister from the "Underdog" cartoons of my childhood.
Speaking of which, that was an interesting cultural phenomenon. You had an evil sterotyped Jew as the mastermind of all evil, who was trying to corrupt Sweet Polly Purebread in various ways, only to be stopped by the ubermensch/superdog Underdog. Lots of Nazi ideas in Underdog.
What was the deal with that?
Walter