Prayer Request That Needs Attention Now
Ξ December 5th, 2008 | → Comments Off | ∇ Prayer Requests |
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It has come to my attention that there is a family in desperate need of prayer. The mom is a single mother, handicapped, with two teenage sons. These sons are very helpful to her, NOT rebellious teens like most their ages. She recently has had surgery that completely immobilizes her neck. This is a permanent situation. But this prayer request is about something else at the moment.
Her sons go to a school that is full of race problems. The principal is turning her eyes away from the problem. Recently, the brothers went into the cafeteria to get their lunch. They happen to be on the federally funded free and reduced lunch program. Soon, quite a number, some 25 black and hispanic young people came into the cafeteria and cut into line. There was name calling and shoving. Now please remember that the boys were not the cause of this. The teacher who was in charge came over the see what was the matter. She is hispanic. She decided that the two white boys were at fault and took them to the end of the line. When one of them came to the head of the line to get his food, she told those handing the food out that he was not allowed to have his hot lunch but instead was to receive what they call a “sub lunch” because he was a trouble maker. This is a frozen turkey sandwich, a close to rotten apple and three day old milk.
The mom has called the school. They were unresponsive until yesterday long after the lunch was over. The principal claims that she had no knowledge of this incident. She instructed the mom to have the teens come to her when this happens again. This is not an isolated incident. It apparently happens quite often. Many of the students no longer get their hot lunches because of the harassment from the other, much bigger teens who often carry weapons to school. There is much fear. What the mom is finding out is that the principal is probably not going to do much about this even though this school, like so many others, has a zero tolerance policy concerning bullies. She is insisting that the teens come to her when this happens. Unfortunately, if they do, they will be branded as tattletales and beat up, probably often.
Please pray for the safety of these teens and the other teens in that school. Please pray that this comes to light whether by the school itself, the local media or some way in which the safety of all is insured. Please pray for the family to get to know the Lord as well. And thank you so much for this. They need all the help they can get with this dire situation.
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