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Edit: Andre is age 16, not 17, at the present time.I had more than a gut feeling, though it wasn’t about a kid that seemed sweet, normal, and well behaved. Starting when one of my kids was age 11, I kept writing to the Madison Metropolitan School District about an out-of-control bully named Andre Brown who was her classmate.I wrote to the principal. I wrote to the school board. I wrote to others in the administration. I wrote to the chief of police. NOTHING effective was done about Andre’s daily classroom disruptions. I asked on a number of occasions that he be referred for delinquency proceedings alleging disorderly conduct as the basis, and of course that was not done.Today Andre Brown is sitting in the Dane County Jail at age 17 facing charges of First Degree Intentional Homicide and Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide. He shot and killed an 11 YO girl while shooting at the driver of the vehicle in which this child was riding.Andre was a cute kid, with a nice smile, and knew how to get laughs out of his classmates. He was also psychopathic, and I described him as psychopathic to Kristin Foreman (former principal at Sherman Elementary), everyone on the school board, Kelly Ruppel (formerly the MMSD Chief of Staff, now the MMSD Chief Financial Officer), and even Michael Koval, the former Madison Chief of Police.All of these people were given clear descriptions of Andre’s disorderly and downright criminal behavior that he was perpetrating starting in 6th grade. He was never referred for prosecution. If our schools, police, and DAs used the tools that the legislature granted them by means of duly enacted laws, Andre could have been adjudicated delinquent at age 11. Legal custody could have been removed from his parents in order to give him medication (antipsychotics and even ritalin are known to improve the cognition and behavior of antisocial children and adolescents). He could have been tightly supervised and *made* to conform, if The System here in Dane County, Wisconsin, had used the tools that exist in our statutes.Now multiple lives are ruined, and an 11YO girl is dead, because Kristin Foreman, the MMSD board, and everyone else stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the behavior of this clearly psychopathic child.

The spousal unit - who spent almost 20 years teaching school after retiring from the Marine Corps - has years of experience dealing with Karens (in the education biz, they’re referred to as “parents.”)One of them had a daughter who became ineligible for volleyball because the girl flunked a test. Mind you, this is fifth grade volleyball in a teeny tiny rural district in the middle of the Illinois upland corn prairie - there were no college scholarships or spots on the Olympic team being jeopardized, here. If she didn’t flunk the next week’s test, she would be back in uniform. It was a one-week suspension.This woman wrote (and then appeared in person) to the school board, demanding that her daughter be put back on the team. When this didn’t work, she wrote letters to every newspaper for a six county radius pointing out the Hunnish behavior of this monster who was ruining her innocent daughter’s life.(Daughter wasn’t particularly upset by it, she was rather a lazy child).On another occasion, a boy was acting up and disrupting the class. He was given a choice - suspension, or a 100 word essay on respecting others. His mother called the principal and informed her that Mr Spouse was supposed to be teaching civics, science and geography. He had no business teaching these children respect.And people wonder why teachers burn out so fast.

**Disclaimer: I write in bold text for medical reasons, Optic Neuritis/Multiple Sclerosis. Comments, if negative, are best not left.**Long past history was defined by the winners, the survivors. The Bible was printed for man but not for every man. Some copies stories left out and hidden, news and book presses added understood languages. And then the book burning began. Libraries and books. The loss of past knowledge might have aided a society today don’t you think? We lost minds and knowledge to a pettiness of control.Did The Catcher in the Rye mess you up? Me either. The question cannot be logically answered by gaps.The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger.Banned & Challenged Books-Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers — in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooksSince its publication, this title has been a favorite target of censors.In 1960, a teacher in Tulsa, OK was fired for assigning the book to an eleventh grade English class. The teacher appealed and was reinstated by the school board, but the book was removed from use in the school.In 1963, a delegation of parents of high school students in Columbus, OH, asked the school board to ban the novel for being "anti-white" and "obscene." The school board refused the request.Removed from the Selinsgrove, PA suggested reading list (1975). Based on parents' objections to the language and content of the book, the school board voted 5-4 to ban the book. The book was later reinstated in the curriculum when the board learned that the vote was illegal because they needed a two-thirds vote for removal of the text.Challenged as an assignment in an American literature class in Pittsgrove, NJ (1977). After months of controversy, the board ruled that the novel could be read in the Advanced Placement class, but they gave parents the right to decide whether or not their children would read it.Removed from the Issaquah, WA optional High School reading list (1978).Removed from the required reading list in Middleville, MI (1979).Removed from the Jackson Milton school libraries in North Jackson, OH (1980).Removed from two Anniston, AL High school libraries (1982), but later reinstated on a restrictive basis.Removed from the school libraries in Morris, Manitoba (1982) along with two other books because they violate the committee's guidelines covering "excess vulgar language, sexual scenes, things concerning moral issues, excessive violence, and anything dealing with the occult."Challenged at the Libby, MT High School (1983) due to the "book's contents."Banned from English classes at the Freeport High School in De Funiak Springs, FL (1985) because it is "unacceptable" and "obscene."Removed from the required reading list of a Medicine Bow, WY Senior High School English class (1986) because of sexual references and profanity in the book.Banned from a required sophomore English reading list at the Napoleon, ND High School (1987) after parents and the local Knights of Columbus chapter complained about its profanity and sexual references.Challenged at the Linton-Stockton, IN High School (1988) because the book is "blasphemous and undermines morality."Banned from the classrooms in Boron, CA High School (1989) because the book contains profanity. Challenged at the Grayslake, IL Community High School (1991).Challenged at the Jamaica High School in Sidell, IL (1992) because the book contains profanities and depicts premarital sex, alcohol abuse, and prostitution.Challenged in the Waterloo, IA schools (1992) and Duval County, FL public school libraries (1992) because of profanity, lurid passages about sex, and statements defamatory to minorities, God, women, and the disabled.Challenged at the Cumberland Valley High School in Carlisle, PA (1992) because of a parent's objections that it contains profanity and is immoral.Challenged, but retained, at the New Richmond, WI High School (1994) for use in some English classes.Challenged as required reading in the Corona Norco, CA Unified School District (1993) because it is "centered around negative activity." The book was retained and teachers selected alternatives if students object to Salinger's novel.Challenged as mandatory reading in the Goffstown, NH schools (1994) because of the vulgar words used and the sexual exploits experienced in the book.Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. Augustine, FL (1995).Challenged at the Oxford Hills High School in Paris, ME (1996). A parent objected to the use of the 'F' word.Challenged, but retained, at the Glynn Academy High School in Brunswick, GA (1997). A student objected to the novel's profanity and sexual references.Removed because of profanity and sexual situations from the required reading curriculum of the Marysville, CA Joint Unified School District (1997). The school superintendent removed it to get it "out of the way so that we didn't have that polarization over a book."Challenged, but retained on the shelves of Limestone County, AL school district (2000) despite objections about the book's foul language.Banned, but later reinstated after community protests at the Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, GA (2000). The controversy began in early 1999 when a parent complained about sex, violence, and profanity in the book that was part of an Advanced Placement English class.Removed by a Dorchester District 2 school board member in Summerville, SC (2001) because it "is a filthy, filthy book."Challenged by a Glynn County, GA (2001) school board member because of profanity. The novel was retained.Challenged in the Big Sky High School in Missoula, MT (2009).