Why Are We Still Failing At Protecting Our Children In 2023?

0:01 Cousins and kin folks. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the newest episode of your favorite podcast, Damn I currently under construction. I am your host. Thank you so much for joining us today. It's Friday. It is Friday, y'all. Hope everybody's had a great work week. Hope everybody's getting geared up for the weekend. Hoping everybody would get out and do something this week and enjoy yourself or just chill back at home and rest and recruping and refocus your energy your mind from a long work week and just chilled and just you know, enjoy yourself. Man. Uh, I wanna thank y'all for joining us today. Look, I'm coming in kind of hot today, cousins and kin folks, so please, uh excuse me if I come in and I sound a little ticked, or if I come in a little harsh, but god, dang it, I'm I'm I'm, I'm I'm really really really up to here, fed up with the stuff that I keep seeing. Now, for those of you who know me, or those of you who have followed us here curmently under construction, you know the things that I despise more than anything anything as well, that's bullets. I know how I feel about bullets.

1:22 You know, I have no love when it comes to bullets for those who feel that they have to pick on those who are weaker than them, or those who are of another of that mindset that you just feel that you just have to get out and and bullet somebody and pick on them or jump on them, or try to take things that they have because you don't have, or whatever the reason that you have in your mind that you have to do that, you have to pick on someone. And we all know that bullets running packs. Bullets are never alone, Bullets always running packs because they're all weak. All of them are weak. And see the ones that follow the bullet are just as weak as he is. And they're all scared.

2:09 Yeah, so that's why they all running pecks, so they have their courage to pick on somebody that they feel as weaker than them, or that they can overpower, whatever the case may be. But either way, I don't like bullets. I highly despise them. And I've run across another situation where the school system, all those that are involved, failed this child in so many ways and so many ways, and it it just it it infuriates me.

2:53 It infuriates me because I see I'm starting to see more and more nowadays used that they keep sweeping it under the rug, or shirking it or just not wanting to deal with it period. And and I'm I'm I'm appalled. I'm highly appalled, cousins and kin folks. Now, I want y'all to listen to something I did. I'm gonna get into it. I want you to listen to something and see if it bothered you as much as it bothered me. Hold on one second, Cousins of the King. Foce, I'm gonna get that audio for you, and we're gonna get into it. All right, cousins of king folks, Here we go. It was met up in the Mollies and mormented Alt couldn't see any other way else speaking or kids need to be sent the message that there are other ways that none of the bullies in the schools were. That was a parent, that was a parent of another student at this school who made this statement. Now, let me let me get into what's going on here. This and that's what that was

4:25 the catalyst of this particular episode. So there are students who stormed out after a team commits suicide over horror school bullying attack. Say what, well, let me tell you what's going on. Cousins and king folks. Students at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday, upset and angry over the suicide death a fourteen year old a church. I'm gonna go see her name A Cutch Now. Before we go into further into this, we want to express our sincere condolences and prayers to the Cutch family and loved ones. We're so deeply saddened by this, and we send all of our prayers and our loves here and currently under construction out to this child's family loved ones uh in this particular time of bereavement and sadness right now.

5:29 And we just pray that the Most High would cover you, would comfort you right now and be with you in this time of bereavement. But it goes further to say that she was found dead at her home by her family. I'm February dry after taking her own life. There was a video posted on social media that showed several students viciously attacking coach as she was walking with her boyfriend in the school hallway. Two days later, after that attack, she took her life at home. Her father is livid that the police were not called after the school attack. I'm at pause right there for a second.

6:15 I'm I'm I'm I'm hold up, hold up, hold on right there, cause it's again, folks, but pauls right there. So we have a physical assault on a student by several other students in the hallway caught on camera showing this attack wasn't provoked by these bullies, and the police weren't called or there wasn't a resource officer on site to be involved. I don't understand that.

6:58 Make that makes sense as as that's the young folks say that math thin mathing not to me and no shape form a fashion. This baby was minding her own business, walking down the hall with her boyfriend, and y'all jump on her and attacked her. It's on video, it's on camera, and the police weren't called at all. But it gets it gets deeper than that. It gets deeper than that, Cousins and king, folks, It gets deeper than that. So it goes on to say a kid is assaulted with a weapon and their policy is not to Paul call the police or follow a report. Her father said she was not only attacked cousins and king folks by these bullies, but with a weapon. On top of that, and the school's policy it's not to call a police or file a report. So basically you're saying that, regardless of what happened at this school, all of these children's lives are in danger. That if somebody comes to this school or at the school and hauls off and attacks or jumps on one of them, whether they're at that school or not, regardless of whatever they use. The school's

8:30 policy it's not is to not call a police or follow a police report that you just on your own. That doesn't make sense to me. That doesn't make sense to me. That doesn't make sense at all. How if at any school you go to schools that means I said my child to your school. That means my child is in your care for however, meaning hours that they're at that school. That means you're responsible for the well being of my child. So if something happens to my child, you are responsible for that.

9:22 But the policies in places to prevent them from not taking responsibility. Again, that math is not math. Oh, but it gets better, cousins again, folks, Oh, it gets better, It gets better again. I apologize if I sound really ticked off, because I am, because this miss pisses me off. I'm so sick of this, adults restricting responsibility when it comes to stuff like that in these children. I'm sick of it. It pisses me off, and something needs to be done about it. Something needs to be done about it, so it goes on to say. Her father said on social media that uh, he took his daughter to the police station after the incident, adding that if an investigation began, then the videos could have been discovered immediately and then taken down. Speaking about the video, her father wrote, I want the entire world to know what these animals did to my daughter. He believes that the bullying his daughter endured drove her to suicide, and then on top of that, he also told NBC New York that his daughter was taken to a nurse at the school, not the hospital

10:52 where she should have gone to a nurse at the school. And even though she checked out, I had bruising. She I'm sorry though she blacked out. That mean this baby had a concussion, because this baby black that this baby was beating so bad she blacked out and she had bruising all over her body. They took her to the school nurse instead of contacting her parents and getting this baby to the hospital. That to me, it's pure neglect.

11:37 But then on this particular day also that the students walked out, the superintendent was there. They were talking to the superintendent, and the superintendent was like he was justifying the actions of the bullets, so he was trying to shirk the responsibility or trying to pass the book about what happened to these students. They're even telling him that, like it's like you don't even care. It's like you don't even care. When is enough going to be enough? When are we as adults and we as a society going to better protect our children.

12:33 When are we as adults in this society going to hold our children who are bullying responsible for our actions. Because bullying just doesn't just happen out of the blue. It starts somewhere. It starts somewhere, and we need to get to the root of the problem. It's so heartbreaking for me to see that a fourteen year old child can be bullied to the point and feel that they no longer have a way out because no one is helping, no one is listening to her, to the point that she feel that they feel they have to check out, that they have to that their only recourse is to take their own lives. That's heartbreaking. That's heartbreaking, Cousins and king folks.

13:58 I've experienced bullying in my own youth. I faced my bullies, I overcame my bullies, and that's why I have the mentality and the attitude now that I have toward bullying. But it breaks my heart that we care so little nowadays, or we're so afraid nowadays of consequences, that we will not hold the bully is responsible, and we won't do everything that we can to help our kids, and that these children nowadays feel there to the point that they have no recourse when they're bullying, but to take their own minds, that they don't want to be here anymore. I've seen, oh I've read about and this probably was not even nowhere near the numbers that it happens, but I've seen and I've heard and I've read more about more teenagers taking their lives because of bullying in the past ten twelve years. Than I've seen in my entire life. True, we have better access to information now with the

15:41 Internet and social media, but I was even shortly even better than that. I've seen more of it in the past ten to twelve years than I have in the past twenty five. That it's hurtful cousins and king folks. That is a scary and astounding number. That You have the school sweet trying to sweep it under the rug. You have the principles doing the same thing.

16:22 You have schools putting policies in place to protect predators like this. You have the police not wanting to do anything about it, basically saying that, oh well, if we start an investigation now that it gives them time to uh get the tapes and erase it. You're not even in trying to investigate. We are failing our children on a level unlike any other. It's unprecedented. It's unprecedented. No parent should have to be burying their children, especially to the point of to bulliant and like this. We need to get to our police. We need to have our community, We need to get better involved.

17:25 We need to be able to hold these schools, these principles, these system principles, these school board members, these superintendents, and all of these that are involved, who will not step up and do what it's right to protect our children. We're not gonna have a future if this continues. Our babies should be able to the only thing at at fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years old that you're supposed to be worried about at that particular time is what I'm gonna do. From homework, getting ready for college, SATs, acts, dumb stuff that kids do, It's the only thing they're supposed to be worried about at that point in their lives. It's the only thing that y'all that the kids that A should be worrying about, not getting bullied, not worrying if they're going to have to deal with that the next day and day and in the day out. And nobody's helping me, not to the point where I'm tired of this, nobody's helping me, nobody's listening to me.

18:49 I'm going to take my life. It should never ever ever get to that point. No child should ever have to be worried about that. I've said this before, I say it now, and I continue to say it. You let the child's supposed to be able to be a child as long as possible. So we need to be trying to We need to get with the school boards, the superintendents, the teachers, whatever we have to do to get something set in placed to be able to deal with this. The police department's involved, if we have to go to your local councilmen, Alderman's whoever, whatever we have to do to get something set in place to where we can hold these bullets responsible for this. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of seeing our children taking their lives. I'm sick of her cousins and king folks. I hurt for this family so bad, and for all the other

20:22 families that are out there who've experienced the same thing of their child taking their life or feeling they we pushed so far to they have no choice but to take their own lives behind bullying. This baby was assaulted, assaulted at school own camera with a weapon, and they did not follow police. Reporter called the police. They did not take this baby to the hospital to be seen about. And kids baby as was blacked out and had who's this out over there? Beat this big? They beat this baby with a weapon. This baby problem. I had a good cussion because she blacked out. That's bad, that's bad. I'm pissed the hell off cousins a king, folks.

21:23 Something that we we we we we need to do better. Our children should be protected at all cause I don't kill what color, black, white, blue, kids? I said. I I read some comments under there and it it it blew my mind that someone even had the audacity or the unmitigated goal to say, this isn't a black problem, this is their problem. We have enough problems in our own community. I could care less what color, what race, what creed this child is. I could kill less. That doesn't matter to me. All of our children should be protected. All of our children should be protected. All of our children should be protected at all times. We have to do better. Whatever I can do to get a voice to out there about that, I'm gonna do it, and I pray that this family can get some type of justice done about this. Again.

22:56 We send our most heartfelt prayer us in condolences to the Kusch family from us here are currently under construction. We love you, We're praying with you, and we prayed that the most high cover and comfort you right now and your time of bereavement. All right, cousins of King, Folks, that's tied episode for the day. I actually had a whole completely different episodes set and ready, but I saw this. It it it that that that episode went completely out of the window, completely out of the window. Be cause you already y'all know how I feel about bullies, how I feel about bullying.

23:48 And I'm so tired of seeing our children taking their lives or feeling that they've been pushed so far that they have no other records than to check out. That's hurtful, that's hurtful. I'm gonna get on out of here, cousin. It's a kid, folks. Remember we do this thing twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. I Remember, you can listen to us wherever you listen to your podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Remember we broadcast on uh, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast Podcast, Pocketcast, Spotify Radio, Public, uh Deezer, iHeart Radio, many many others. Again, wherever you listen to your podcast, be sure to check us out or check us out on under construction dot com. Under construction dot com, where it gives you the opportunity to subscribe and where you'll get new updates. Uh you'll get a chance to be entered into to uh any uh giveaway that we have by subscribing to underconstruction dot com and uh a lot of other things.

25:11 Man, I'm I'm I'm I'll just gotta forgive me cousins of king folks because I'm I'm ah man that that's that's hurtful. That as that's hurtful. Cousins of king folks, that is hurtful. But again, I'm gonna get on out of here. I love y'all, cousins and ken folks. Thank you so much for joining us today. Remember our model. It takes the village to make this thing happen, and you all are my village. And we're gonna continue to build this thing together, you and I step by step, one break at a time, Carl do on the construction. I love y'all, cousins and king folks. I will talk to you all and a couple of days. Have a great weekend. Be safe. I love y'all. Peace Mmm