Latesha: "shut up wicho nasty cockAroach lookin ass, lookin like the chewed up inside of a tootsie pop lookin ass"

Jaquan: "Shut up wicho dried up snake lookin ass."

In other news: 

The boy ("Mario") who wrote this moving poem to me once (I don't have him in my class, I just see him in the hallways sometimes):

was requested in the Youth Action (aka, trouble) office.  Through what his teacher told me, I have pieced together what transpired last week.  Mario has a long record of infractions, but little is done because his mother is completely submissive to him.  He's about 5'0" and he's the only male in their house.  When the mother is called to the school to intervene regarding his behavior, she sort of cowers and tells the teachers to talk to him, not her, since he makes the decisions.  Right.  Moving on.

When Mario came to class, the teacher needed to send him to youth action.  But Mario would simply walk away if she directed him to go there.  So she waited until our campus police officer walked by the room; she discretely got his attention and motioned to Mario.

When Mario saw the cop, he immediately tried to run out of the room, but the cop cornered him.  Now I need to digress and say that this cop is really good with our kids, he never flaunts his authority or intimidates them.  So Mario and the cop are now in the middle of the room with the other students backed up against the wall.  Mario reaches into his pockets as he frantically asks, "Are you going to arrest me?"  The cop, probably thinking that Mario was reaching for a weapon, got out his handcuffs.  

Mario said, "You don't want to do that.  I'm a wrestler.  Leave me alone."

Then, in a brief blur of action, the next thing anyone knew was that Mario was running out of the room.

The cop had his own handcuffs around his wrists and a broken finger.

How Mario did this is unknown.  I would not be surprised to find out that he has a history in gangs and might have possibly had prior experience with handcuffs.  But still... a tiny mexican boy against a pretty big cop... craziness.

Mario was found around 30 minutes later hiding in a vent in the ceiling of our hallway.

I later learned that Mario has no "papers", which is why he was probably terrified and felt that he had nothing to lose.  The officer is pressing charges.  Mario will be deported to Mexico, where he has no family.  

There is no doubt that Mario made a very bad move.  But I can't help but think that he is just a stupid teenager with an idiot for a mom.  What chance did he have?  Who could teach him how to act?  By the time these kids get to high school, it's too late.  Then again, the cop is completely right to press charges, that's pretty blatant assault and the kid meant to do harm.

Well, I don't know.  That's that.