I really find this article in Philly.Com insulting. It’s as if they don’t think we know this is the same city which began the popular “flash mob n robs” in 2010. It’s as if they don’t think we know this is the city where Michael Nutter told the black population to pull up their pants and stop acting like thugs in 2011. It’s as if they don’t think we know about the dozens of “knock out assaults” from 2011, 2012, 2013; and the more recent girls with the Brick to the Face attacks.
Philadelphia is not the city of “Brotherly Love”, it’s the city of “Thuggerly Love”; and this article from Philly.Com is positioned as if it just happened recently. Insulting.
PHILADELPHIA – UNRULY students roaming the halls, fighting, smoking weed. Ordering takeout.
Frightened teachers covering their windows and locking their sometimes busted-up doors – while what? – whispering Hail Marys that the roaming band of delinquents won’t disrupt their classes.

And then just days before a lunchtime brawl at Bartram High School that left six students in police custody, a staffer assigned to keep the peace gets knocked unconscious by a student and suffers a fractured skull.
The March 21 incident grabbed headlines, but it was just the latest incident at a school long plagued by violence. (more…)











