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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoy in the Hoodie was going to aviation school part time.
After taking an airplane ride two years ago, Trayvon decided he wanted to learn to fly, his uncle Ronald Fulton said. The teen attended a Miami aviation school part time and was studying to be an engineer, a path to realizing his ambition, Fulton said.
Math was Trayvons favorite subject.
Something else you may not know about Trayvon Martin:
He was extremely creative, said Michelle Kypriss, Trayvons English teacher at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami. He just loved building things. He really was intrigued by how things worked.
She described Trayvon, a junior, as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.
Something you may have heard about Trayvon Martin:
Trayvon was under a five-day suspension when he was shot that Sunday night, but Kypriss said it was due to tardiness and not misbehavior.
Trayvon was not a violent or dangerous child. He was not known for misbehaving, the teacher said. He was suspended because he was late too many times.
http://www.stinque.com/2012/03/22/boy-in-the-hoodie/
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)So what is going on with this? Are they shoving it under the rug? I thought there was a big protest. Seems like a wall of silence is coming down.
FarPoint
(12,466 posts)Is Govenor Scott ordering a media blackout? Where I live, it's on all the local news stations and cable news as well...I have Sirius Radio too...so I get even more options...Oh, then there's the Huffington Post, DU links, TPM, Kos....So,I see no evidence of a wall of silence. You may need to be more attentive.
CAPHAVOC
(1,138 posts)Seems to me the story is getting the big Kibosh. Maybe bad poll. Million Hoodie March? Who cares about real justice? I will stay tuned as they say.
FarPoint
(12,466 posts)Keith Olbermann is wearing a hoodie....
appleannie1
(5,073 posts)Booster
(10,021 posts)Trayvon's mother and express their condolences? Mr. Obama called that white girl who was called a slut and this is far more serious than that. A male black friend of mine (I'm white) said that would make Mr. Obama seem like he was giving preferential treatment because the family is black. In my mind, it's still discrimination if you're not calling because they are black. The Black community can't win for losing. I think the mother deserves a call.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)qanda
(10,422 posts)What a waste!!!!!!
A waste of a life. Awful. Sad. How can this happen? Uggghhh!
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)That doesn't even make sense to me.
appleannie1
(5,073 posts)couple minutes late too many times.
Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)So he was probably not attending the school when he lived in Sanford, which is a long trip from Miami.
qanda
(10,422 posts)appleannie1
(5,073 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,027 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 22, 2012, 10:00 PM - Edit history (1)
a burning house when he was nine year old. The kid is -was- a really good soul it sounds like.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)R.I.P. Trayvon.
OPOS
(73 posts)Insulting racially for the "Boy" connotations and the author should have understood that.