National News: Police Seek Clues To Who Murdered An Atlanta Mother; Detroit’s Kilpatrick Has Extensive Legal Team; A Georgia School Gets The Paddles Ready

July 23rd, 2008

Police seek clues to who murdered an Atlanta mother
Investigators and family members in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth continued seeking clues Tuesday to explain why anybody would shoot to death a 40-year-old mother as she waited to pick up her daughter from work. After all, authorities say, the car that was stolen from Genai Coleman Friday night, when she was gunned down outside a Red Lobster restaurant, was an old Dodge; plus, she had no enemies anyone knew about. A stunned Geraldine Brown, who flew to Atlanta from Elkhart, Ind., immediately after hearing that her daughter had been shot, said the car certainly was “nothing worth being killed over,” according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They had the car, why did they have to shoot her?” Coleman, a single preschool teacher at Montclair Elementary School in DeKalb County, took in and raised three foster daughters (now ages 19, 21 and 23) at her home in Snellville, Ga., the Journal-Constitution reports. “‘Genai’ means “one who loves people,” and she did just that, her mother said.

Detroit’s Kilpatrick has some legal team

Kilpatrick
If Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has to cough up some more cash, gets booted out of office or winds up in jail behind the scandals swirling around him these days, it certainly won’t be due to a lack of legal representation. The Detroit News reports that the embattled city chief, who is “confronting legal challenges on at least six fronts, has assembled a huge team of attorneys to fight an array of civil lawsuits and attempts to remove him from office without compromising job one – defending Kilpatrick on felony charges.” Such a seemingly humongous effort, according to the News, requires at least 17 public and private attorneys. BET.com/News has more on this story. Should Kilpatrick step down, or is there a witch hunt against the mayor?

A Georgia school gets the paddles ready for the fall
To spank or not to spank … that’s the question in Twiggs County, Ga., where principals are breaking out their paddles this fall to deter misbehaving. It won’t be the first time that the school district puts the wood to students who act up. Last year, for example, a second-grader was swatted for throwing pencils, as were others who were deemed too unruly for the standard time-out or other methods of discipline, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. But the policy was rarely used. Teachers and administrators can opt out if they desire, and parents must sign a permission slip to allow their children to be paddled. Read more of what the parents and teachers had to say at BET.com/News.

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sk8mom Said on

No teacher is going to touch my child. I do not even spank my child unless he is doing something dangerous, he has had 2 spankings {taps on the butt} his whole life. Spanking is a power trip used so the spanker can fill in power. Kids are so called out of control these days because parents are too busy to spend time with there kids, they would whether have rims and nice cars and hang out at the club than spend time with there kids.



Taunya Said on

Well sk8mom, if you do not want anyone to spank your child then that is you. Don’t sign the slip. A lot of these kids need something on their butts other then designer jeans and tattoos. If your child is not a problem then you have nothing to worry about. I have a 16 year old and a 13 year old. If they are not going to show respect to their teachers, then I agree that something needs to be done. I do think that it would be a good idea to contact the parent before the paddling is enforced to make sure that the parent agrees with the punishment. There are a lot of kids out there that are going to show their ***** at school because they know that nothing is sgoing to be done. And the majority of the ones who parents don’t want it, are the ones who need more than a paddling.



Mrs. T. Said on

Times are too hard and money is too tight to be playing games with these children. As the parents, we always have the power, the power to pay the mortgage, to buy the food, to maintain utilities, to provide for extracurricular activities and sports, to buy their clothing and uniforms, etc…We don’t need to spank our children to have the power. When we decided to bring them into this world and to share our home with them we received the power from GOD! We spank them to correct undesirable behavior that verbal communication has not corrected. Our power is inherent in our position as the parents and in our home that is understood. Momma and daddy are the boss over them that do not work and pay bills in our house. We are not their friends, buddies or their pals. Their friends do not live in our house. And we will whip that behind when necessary!



emily Said on

I live in California and it is against the law for you to hit your child If parents were doing their part in raising their children teachers would not have such a hard time with these bad a- – kids in class. No I don’t think teachers should be allowed to paddle a child. It took me back to salvery when we (black people) were beat just because.



I like MsLadyJ comment! Said on

MsLadyJ I like your comment. You hit it on the spot. A lot of people may disagree, but something needs to be done. And better it be done in school; than in a prison or jail cell, correctional facility, boot camp, or worst….Death!
May God be with us!



cheri Said on

I truely believe in spanking not abuse kids now days have no respect for adults as a teacher myself i see it everyday when i was coming up there was spanking in the schools it made you think twice about messing up and i agree with Mrs.T its not a power trip as a parent you already have the power.people are talking about slavery what do you think jail is anytime you cut school funds to build more jails baby this is slavery they tell us we cant spank our own kids but its ok for the law to tasser them to death and get away with it because ITS THE LAW. Also it does start in the home first many parents are not parenting and raising their kids to respect anymore. So either you raise them or they will kill them.



D-Lew Said on

am 16 years old and I think corporal punishment is a giid idea because kids now days don’t respect their elders. That often leads into run in with the laws because they fell no one can tell them what to do but unlike them my mom has raised me well.



mike Said on

Thats a bad idea cuz alot of teachers going to hit sumbody child the wrong way and the parents go come out in whoop da teacher ass n erbody got sumn to do wit it



Jeff Charles Said on

To those who missed it, paddling does not prevent prison, and if anything, increases the risk. The highest prison-rate states are also the highest paddling rate states, and there is a very strong correlation down the line.

When we look at countries, the same pattern holds — among the two-dozen wealthiest countries, the US is virtually alone in using school CP, and has the highest prison rates on earth, as well as worse academic achievement, higher child death rates, and a lower quality of life for children across the board.

Paddling may “feel good” to those who do it for whatever reasons, but it does no good for children or society in the long run. African-Americans in particular have internalized the slave mentality that was beaten into them and use and approve of “CP” in school and the home at much higher rates than whites do, and as with every other subset of the CP issue, have suffered from it at higher rates as well.

Jeff Charles
http://www.nopaddle.com



lace Said on

Now why is it okay for a teacher to paddle my son, but if I leave a bruise on my child and send them to school, they gonna be sending DCFS to my house? I don’t like the idea of teachers puttin their hands on my kids. I think spankings are okay, if they are not out of control..that is, if it’s the mama or daddy doin it and not a complete stranger!



HLO Said on

I’m not a big believer in spanking I think it just teaches children how to be sneaky so that they will not get caught the next time. If corpral punishment (not only in school but in the real world) worked why are there still so many people commitiing crimes such as murder?
My mom had the option to approve paddiling when I was in school and she never allowed it. She always believed that only parents should discipline their children.

And if you brought back paddiling your child may be abused. You are not the hand that holds the paddle so how do you let someone else chose how your child is treated.

PS. acting out is part of a bigger issue, maybe the school system should deal with those problems then resort violence (hitting is violence)



D, MITCH Said on

This is a good idea, especially the parents must sign a permission slip, I actually went to Twiggs County schools back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They dont mind whipping that butt down there. I got my first paddling from Principal Hosea Blash.



tanisha Said on

yes please whop these kids a$$ they need it if u don’t you’ll find yourself in time out trin to get away from that bad unrulely monster your creating



Rod Said on

I am for it. As a man of God and a resident in GA. I think children have gotten way out of hand. Nothing wrong with putting a little wood to their behind. If the Bible is for it who can be against.

Side note: We need prayer back in school.



Anonymous Said on

Either you whip them at home or big joe will whip them in prison. And we all know the white man got plenty of money for prison and nothing for school books.



mrs. g Said on

whoop da’ little azzez that’s what is wrong with them now!!!



mrs. g Said on

i agree with what some had said earlier…i think the prison and detention centers would be less crowded these little kids today think they are grown and some of them are too grown they need a good ol’ fashioned whuppin’ i say beat dat butt!



Michelle Said on

There is no witch hunt against Kwame. He just needs to resign and handle all of these legal issues. I really was supportive of Kwame when he first got into office but now it’s like he believes he is above the law, but he’s not. He did some shady things to individuals just because he could and now look at him. I could careless about his affairs because that’s something that is wife has to deal with, but when you start messing with individuals personal life because “you don’t want your secrets to get out” that’s a problem ( I am speaking of the police officers who got fired because they were investigating the party; that so-called never happen, and won the whistleblower lawsuit). Stuff like that should never happen and now all of these things are coming out that he did and others, and it just looks bad for Detroit, rather the whole state of Michigan.



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