A teenager on a field trip to see a Detroit court ended up in jail clothes and handcuffs because a judge said he didn’t like her attitude.

A teenager on a field trip to see a Detroit court ended up in jail clothes and handcuffs because a judge said he didn’t like her attitude.

Judge Kenneth King even asked other kids in the courtroom Tuesday whether the 16-year-old girl should be taken to juvenile detention, WXYZ-TV reported.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Probably could swing the shorter hours by reducing summer vacation.

    Take classes to double blocks with an alternating cycle in case classes get too short.

    This would anger sports coaches that want to use summer for torturing their kids training camp, and farmers that like the cheaper-than-illegal-immigrants that need summer jobs.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      You’re right. I feel like that takes a fundamental part of my childhood away from other kids, but with the child labor laws in some states, that was no longer safe anyway.