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Is this an example of bad parenting?

Whose parents do you mean?
The 58 year old guy who shoved the kid?
Because he's the one displaying the poor behavior.
Not the kid.

The kid's parents seem, to me, to be conscientious.
 
tree said:
Whose parents do you mean?
The 58 year old guy who shoved the kid?
Because he's the one displaying the poor behavior.
Not the kid.

The kid's parents seem, to me, to be conscientious.
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The 58 year old was definitely in the wrong, but I feel as though there should have been better safeguards in place.
 
peoplesrjames said:
The 58 year old was definitely in the wrong, but I feel as though there should have been better safeguards in place.
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Better safeguards, how, exactly? The mother already was doing all she could, and had the support of the entire school district. She can't wrap him in bubble wrap and keep him caged his entire life.

Chase did nothing wrong, except maybe standing IN the road (though, the article is vague as to what is meant by in the road; was he simply by the white line, as is legal in a road with no sidewalks? Was he in the middle, what?). Even then, he was disoriented and trying to get his bearings.

No, the only "bad parenting" example here is the man who assaulted the kid for no valid reason. He feared a kid in a track uniform was going to mug his wife, while they were both driving in a car? You know, the ton-plus box of steel with doors and locks and a few hundred horsepower engine? Unless the article forgot to mention that this kid is actually the Flash, all the guy needed to do was go around him and do more than 5 miles per hour.
 
The boy's mother sounds like she was doing all that she could. She can't keep him 'in a bubble' so to say, that doesn't do her son any favors. She did what she could for him, and letting him experience things with a little risk is fine. Its not good for you or the child to try to protect your child from every freak accident or paranoid tv-crime-show type scenario. Its not the mother's fault she let her child run the course without staying at his side. You gotta let the leash give a bit eventually. He should have been safe there. It sounds like this was just a case of a grown man who jumped to conclusions, possibly with a bit of racial profiling mixed into it. He had no right to beat up a boy who hadn't so much as raised a hand to him. If he can manage owning or even just borrowing a cell phone for such occasions perhaps that could help, but even so who knows.
 
Bad parenting for letting their son join the race? Of course not. This sounds like a racial issue the kid had faced. The man had made an assumption based on his skin color.
 
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