Just before eleven o'clock on Friday morning, May 31, 2013, as the attendees of a kindergarten graduation ceremony walked out of the Michael R. White Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio, two teenage girls got into a fistfight over a spilled cup of punch. Instead of pulling the girls apart, family members from both sides, jumped into the fray as the kindergarten graduates looked on in horror.
One of the combatants in the Friday morning gang brawl pulled out a hammer. (A hammer? Who brings a hammer to a graduation ceremony?) Another kindergarten parent weighed-in with some kind of club. Someone called 911. The caller, perhaps hoping for a fast response from the Cleveland Police Department, falsely reported that shots had been fired. (That usually brings the police flying, but not always.)
Not long after the 911 call, police officers rolled up to the Michael R. White school to find a dozen people punching, kicking, and rolling around on the ground. Officers broke up the fight and arrested seven adults and one juvenile. There were scrapes and bruises, and some pulled-out hair, but none of the graduation day brawlers were seriously injured. The unnamed arrestees, most of whom were women, were charged with aggravated rioting.
What would Mr. Rogers say to these kindergarten kids about their brawling parents? Perhaps it would be something like: "You are special, but your folks are jerks."
One of the combatants in the Friday morning gang brawl pulled out a hammer. (A hammer? Who brings a hammer to a graduation ceremony?) Another kindergarten parent weighed-in with some kind of club. Someone called 911. The caller, perhaps hoping for a fast response from the Cleveland Police Department, falsely reported that shots had been fired. (That usually brings the police flying, but not always.)
Not long after the 911 call, police officers rolled up to the Michael R. White school to find a dozen people punching, kicking, and rolling around on the ground. Officers broke up the fight and arrested seven adults and one juvenile. There were scrapes and bruises, and some pulled-out hair, but none of the graduation day brawlers were seriously injured. The unnamed arrestees, most of whom were women, were charged with aggravated rioting.
What would Mr. Rogers say to these kindergarten kids about their brawling parents? Perhaps it would be something like: "You are special, but your folks are jerks."
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