Kids throw garbage in Sept. 11 memorial pool
Associated Press
Learning to ignore bad children and parenting is a painful but worthwhile endeavor, though it retards the advancement of civilization.
Despite my zen, I’m not sure I could have turned the other cheek if I’d observed junior high students tossing garbage into the reflecting pool at the September 11 Memorial in New York City.
Fox News reports one of the kids was detained by police for having bullets in his pockets.
“These kids just need to be educated about what happened there,” said New Yorker Anthoula Kastinatides, whose brother died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The kids were on a summer field trip with a Brooklyn public school. New York’s school chancellor said the students who threw garbage into the memorial, which opened Sept. 11, 2011, in Lower Manhattan, may be punished. The kid that had ammunition faces a police investigation.
And who knows, maybe a parent will get involved?
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Shirl
June 26th, 2012
1:44 pm
It does not matter what area of the city kids come from, i.e. thug culture, uppity culture, because I witnessed non-thug culture kids, as Rick called these kids, disrespecting a Washington D.C. memorial last month. Some Kids today have no respect because they have not been taught respect at home.
joshua d.
June 26th, 2012
2:01 pm
i remember the day of 9/11. i was a freshman in highschool. and even while it was happening i thought “yeah its tragic that these planes hit these buildings…but why is this scaring people the way it is?” it wasnt that i was ignorant, truth be told i made really good grades all through school…but there was certainly a lack of understanding…maybe these kids just need to be educated about the magnitude of this event…i know i had to be….
William
June 26th, 2012
2:08 pm
JRHD – you are the only one with the RIGHT solution. Physical punishment should at least be a start in educating these “kids”. Personally, I would make the week not on Parris Island but downtown Iraq or Afghanistan, but that is me.
Former Navy – 8 years…..
casper09
June 26th, 2012
2:10 pm
so sick in tired of those folks that tend to bring politics into everything this is not a liberal or a conservative concern please just stop it for once and look at our society as a whole it goes back to parenting many americans have forget thier greates responsibility is still to raise good law abiding and caring children and until we get back to those values we will continue to see these types of things happening everyday
jagdonald
June 26th, 2012
2:15 pm
This is today’s youth. They have no respect for authority, adults, or others in general. It is a “ME” generation being raised by parents who don’t give a C*R*A*P about anything. These kids should have to serve community service cleaning trash in the parks and around the memorial for a month. Their parents should have to serve with them as well.
casper09
June 26th, 2012
2:16 pm
you know i just rememberd something as a young man grwoing up in baltimore thinking about once of my most memorable field trips down to fort mchenry, the flag house and federal hill before we got off the bus my teacher make sure we knew the importance of these greats sightr we were visiting and the roles they play to shape our country we were like sponges making sure we soaked it all in forever grateful to be americans and bein so excited to see a piece of history where were the folks that should have made these hyoungfolks aware that they were standing on hollow grounds a special place to remember our loves ones and heroes of 911
Zane Smith's Teeth
June 26th, 2012
2:23 pm
Bloomberg is a Republican…
Colin
June 26th, 2012
2:35 pm
As soon as I read that the kids were on a fieldtrip from a Brooklyn public school, I had pretty low expectations for them. Nevertheless, their parents should be embarrassed by the actions of the kids and punish them. We know the school won’t.
Tea Party Meber
June 26th, 2012
2:35 pm
U no they where not white
Cynthia
June 26th, 2012
2:36 pm
I was at the Memorial in May and some parent set his kid on top of the wall right on some of the names—-can you believe that? A security guard had to go over and tell him to remove his kid.
Also, heard that the grass that has been planted near the trees continually gets trampled—guess
some of the vistiors think it is a park for their use. What part of Memorial do you not understand?