"While condemning global injustices against children, we overlook the ethics of removing seven-year-olds from their families."
Texas appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week, The Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children. Police now patrol the schools, arresting and charging pupils as young as six for breaches of discipline. The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : The British boarding school remains cruel.
Texas appears to believe in neither forgiveness nor redemption. Last week, The Guardian revealed the extent to which it has criminalised its children. Police now patrol the schools, arresting and charging pupils as young as six for breaches of discipline. The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : The British boarding school remains cruel.
Yet most of them have committed no recognised crime. As one of the judges who hears their cases explained, “If any adult did it it's not going to be a violation”. The law permits people to do things to children that they could not do to adults.