Posted by XXXXXXXX, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Mar 8, 2012 at 1:42 am
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Thank You for all the good comments and support everyone.
I am mxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx i just want to say that this article makes me look like a criminal and i am not even close to one.
But i want to speak the truth hidden behind this article and i am not accusing of Ms. Sue Dremann of hiding it because she just wrote what she was told i am assuming.
The truth is that before the fight i was doing the right thing. I was asking for help from the teacher and he did help by calling the main office once. around 15 minutes pass by and no one shows up and so he calls a couple more times. And so the teacher and I wait for the campus supervisor to come and help me. And more than 35 minutes pass and still no one shows up. I know the teacher got connected to the main office because i heard him talking to them. so the end of the period arrives and i go out side with the teacher. i tell him i am very upset and he says that he is too. So at the time i was waiting for some one to help me i was printing out an essay and thats where the stapler comes in. But what the article didnt say is that i was being pushed and had been thrown a backpack at my chest and face by the main other student. So i felt frightened and my first reaction was swings with what i had in my hand and it happened to be a stapler. I am sorry for my actions and i am very sorry for the other kid getting hurt.
Ok but that was only the fight i was really disappointed with Gunn Staff
throughout 45-50 minutes of asking for help no one came to help me and the teacher. Now i am thinking what about if it was a life and death situation would they respond??
But thats only one of the problems. the second problem i have is that when i was in the office i over heard assit. princ, the dean, and front desk secretary blaming the teacher for not grabbing the phone and for not having an urgent voice and that why didnt he use the panic button every class has. In my head i am like wow how can you blame this on him?? When he was doing his best in class because he cant lay a hand on a student. I didnt say anything about what they were talking about. then when it was me and assit. princ i asked her why didnt you guys send another person. And she gave me an excuse that her little radio thing wasnt working that she can only speak through it but not hear anything. And that was a big shock to me. As well with the Campus supervisor i asked him where were you i really needed you he told me i couldnt hear anything from the radio.
So in a way thanks to the Gunn Staff My family Mom, Sister, Dad, Even my Baby Brother saw me get arrested for something that could have been avoided by at least one out of all higher authority personnel that could have came and help me. Now ihave to go through all the reqiurements of a $25000 bail that if i dont make one court date i willhave to pay all $25000 and do week ends and anger classes on top of that i have work and 9 classes to graduate high school and try to pursue college.
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(my gut reaction is that this is a crock and that it should not be reported by name in the media nor should the young man / boy be in the system over this.
That two or more people wrote in in his defense makes me think I am right. I am tempted — because I volunteered briefly at Shromila Gupta’s fifth grade class at Barron overlapping with this kids time there — to call around and try to get traction.
I think PAPD has a history of profiling kids by class, by their neighborhood especially Venture –and ironically the Weekly had a section on Ventura last week. (And I tend to defend PAPD unions).
The title references something I saw in Michael Moore “Capitalism: a Love Story” about Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania where they first privatized the juvie hall then let corrupt judges game the system to the tune of a million dollars or more in bribes before being caught. Not to mention the thousands of kids locked up beyond reason.
I was gonna jokingly write that Palo Alto should grab the post office and turn it into a juvie hall for money. People would not know I was joking.
I hope there are some quality defense lawyers out there who can help this from getting out of hand. (no pun intended — did he throw the stapler or strike with it?)
Sadly but way off topic, I saw there was a recent CCS wrestling champion by the same name who died suddenly. thank you search-injuns.
off to read and argue “tortilla curtain”
(this has been kinda bugging me for a week, and i was gonna let it pass but then my Archers of Loaf “Greatest” video posted above gave way to “throwing things” by superchunk and I could not resist:
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Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
AXYHEXO is frmsht
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:21 pm
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This morning I made a new friend, a fellow lover of words, named Joe Becker, or Joseph D. Becker. He lives in South Palo Alto, behind Cubberley and has been involved with computers and languages for a long time. He is one of the founders, for example, of Unicode.
I met him on Charleston, heading west. I rolled down the window of my new Chevy 4-cylinder and said:
“Excuse me, what is “AXYHEXO”?”
Joe laughed and said, “[search-injun] it.”
He actually used as a verb the name of the leading search engine, but since I generally do not promote individual corporate names or service marks I tend to refer to search engines genericly in my writings. Actually “search-injuns” is a term I have coined, honoring our forerunners (not the Toyota I used to own, but the people like the Ohlone who used to live here. Come to think of it, I texted briefly with a Navajo jeweler yesterday, and noticed that today’s Times had a story about New York fashion bigwigs stealing ideas from Native Cultures, but I digress).
Becker turned left at El Camino — I think he was heading towards Hobees. Note the distinction between my refusal to name corporations by name and my willingness to even gratuitously mention family-owned businesses.
I took his advice and went by the College Terrace library, hoping to take Joseph D. Becker’s advice about AXYHEXO, but the library I found out is closed Thursday — it is actually only open about 57 percent of the days. I was wishfully hoping the odds were even better than that since the door was open and an ADS truck was loading books, but I was wrong. The city employee, Steve I think was his name, chatted me up a bit, let a lady into the bathroom to wash her hands, and gave me a laundry list of campaign platform talking points if I ever apply to Library Commisison or run for City Council again.
I had to go back to girlfriend’s house to learn that AXYHEXO is a rough translation phonetically of a Russian phrase A khuja nje khochesh.
I think it means “Although the universe is redshitfing nothing beats sitting around a fire and schmoozing like bubbe and her bubbe used to do”.
Pondering AXYHEXO reminded me of my old neighbor whose yellow Mercedes Benz had a vanity plate FRMSHT that means “mixed up” in Yiddish but always made me think that Ms. S (I will spare using her name) ate a lot of bran cereal. She told me once that people often asked if her plate had something to do with the agricultural roots of our great country.
Becker drives a convertible Lexus. I shot this photo of his car before we parted ways.
Anyhoo, A khuja nje khochesh to all my comrades in South Palo Alto and a special shout out to my favorite other “beyond the pale” types like Lera Boroditsky, Nyree Rabushka, Michael McFaul and Elif Batuman, who are all Farm-affiliates come to think of it although that is a horse of a different cardinality.
In not entirely unrelated matters, The New York Times reports that artist Ai Weiwei was questioned after throwing stones at some Uniview (as opposed to Unicode — I believe they are unrelated projects) surveillance cameras near his home in China; Andrew Jacobs’ p1 story was about Romney’s ties to the fledgling but potentially hugely lucrative if anti-Democratic Big Brother infrastructure there; also, I noted four columns over William Yardley’s coverage of the American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghanis. I know Bill Yardley slightly better than I do Becker although last time I saw him was 1981 at Escondido Village basketball courts.
i met bill yardley while his mother rosemary was a knight fellow at stanford. jim was my classmate and bill the kid brother tagging along. jim joined our Oracle staff and earned his first byline –meanwhile his father Jonathan won the Pulitzer that year, back in DC/Baltimore.