Two Middle School Girls Set School Fire

By Daniel Taverne

WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA- Two 7th grade female students started a fire in a Riser Middle School 2nd floor bathroom yesterday by igniting paper and a roll of plastic bags in a trash can. After witness statements and several rounds of questioning, the two girls finally confessed to planning it earlier in the day, then carried it out immediately after lunch.

The entire 2nd floor hall was filled with a toxic smoke, forcing the evacuation of the entire school, witnesses say. Although no serious damage occurred, custodial staff said it will take “A long time” to get the smell out of the school.

Two students and one school employee were taken to an area hospital for smoke inhalation and the assistant principal was treated at the school by the school nurse. The two girls were taken into custody by Ouachita Parish deputies, and could be facing arson charges.
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The Commentary:

I am very close to someone who works as a house keeper at this school, and I can tell you that the kids going to school there need better parenting bestowed upon them.

I am regularly informed of how nothing can be done about children who regularly urinate or defecate on bathroom floors, then smear the material all over the walls using their hands. Additionally, I’m informed on a regular basis of girls not throwing away their feminine napkins, but instead stick them to the walls beside the commodes.

Why are we a society of adults who can not control our children? It seems to me that we absolutely have to go back to earlier forms of punishment because the current one that preaches ‘time-outs’ and Rewards’ and ‘finding their currency’ simply does not work on the average kid by average parents.

These days, spanking seems brutal, and old fashioned, and flies in the face of social workers who believe children’s bottoms are too sacred to be smacked. Guess what, though? Regardless of what they believe, or want you to believe, it works. Sometimes I think social workers are largely against spanking because they know the result will be pure misery within non-spanking families hence creating social worker job security.