Was Trayvon Martin an Honor student? I know some experts here will know...

[LaydeeBug]

Like a moth to a flame, and even though I haven't watched this trial. I *still* managed to get in it.

smh

[Azathoth]

1. His GPA is *rumored* to have been 3.7

Don't know if there has ever been actual confirmation.

[backwoodsbob]

2. what the hell difference does it make?

I don't get the relevence

[Hoyt]

16. Zman killed a kid who was going somewhere. Is that hard for you to believe?

Counter to how most of the right wing gun nuts label him as a thug.

[backwoodsbob]

19. but what relevance does it have to the trial?

[LaydeeBug]

20. things that are relevant to the situation are not the same as admissible to the trial, but MY OP

said NOTHING about the trial.

I got into it with someone calling him a thug. I said he was an honor student.

[Hoyt]

22. Bob, after the thread you started the other day, you'll never get it.

[backwoodsbob]

23. hoyt..have you ever bothered to ask what i think?

[NightWatcher]

3. So his GPA has bearing on the guilt of the man who shot him?

I don't care if he was in Mensa or had a learning disability. He was not doing anything that validated a grown ass man shooting him that night.

[LaydeeBug]

21. No, it has bearing on people referring to him as "thug", so maybe stop conflating?

Ok, thanks.

[WinkyDink]

25. Actually, a high G.P.A. and thuggishness are not mutually exclusive. In THIS case,

the GPA is irrelevant and the thuggishness completely unproven.

[countingbluecars]

7. Nobody said he was perfect.

But he was doing nothing wrong that evening and you know it.

[DevonRex]

9. WTF? You're sarcastically implying he was not a nice kid and was responsible

in some way for Zimmerman killing him as he walked home from buying candy?

[JustAnotherGen]

5. I haven't considered it

Sorry - can't be of help. But - to me, it doesn't matter. 2.7 or 3.7 it doesn't matter.

George Zimmerman - if we are to believe him - never asked Trayvon if he was an honor student. Based upon the videos shown in court - that wasn't part of his decision making process when he decided to follow Trayvon and confront him.

When he was doing the walk through with the police - and in the police station interview he never said, "Then I asked my suspect if he was an honor student."

[Nevernose]

6. On a related note

Putting his parents on the stand hopefully helped to dispel the notion that he was some kind of hood rat or ghetto gangster (the Internets assure me is is true). I know that was the assumption a lot of people made about a black kid in a hoodie, most notably George Zimmerman.

Instead we saw two parents, college educated professionals, well spoken, and divorced but both still involved in the lives of their son. Hardly the expected parental profile presented by the many racists who think George Zimmerman is a hero.

[NOLALady]

10. But,

if his parents were not educated, articulate, professionals, that child still did not deserve to be murdered.

[Nevernose]

13. Oh, God no!

I hope that's not what I was implying.

I was just pointing out that a lot of the assumptions and narrative that's being put out on the Internet is racist bullshit

[left is right]

8. I do’t know or care whether he was an honor student

but I remember that one of his teachers very early in this whole debate described him in terms of being a student who majored in smiles. I took that to mean that he was a very easy-going kid. That was one of the reasons that I am so unwilling to believe that Trayvon was the aggressor. Any physical fight that he and GZ got into must have been instigated by GZ and TM was only protecting himself. Strike that he was only fighting for his life.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. +1

And Zimmerman never took either of those scenarios into consideration.

[DevonRex]

12. The family attorneys said he was an honor student.

It's easily checked locally so there's no way they'd lie about it. Schools keep track.

[Tx4obama]

15. Math was his favorite subject. He planned on going to college and wanted a career in aviation.

See DU OP here: http://election.democraticunderground.com/10023236211

and this one here too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002457977

[JustAnotherGen]

17. Why

Couldn't Zimmermann consider Trayvon's humanity and take those both into consideration?

Somewhat rhetorical Tx. But I figure you know that.

[Igel]

18. Doubt anybody will know.

A Google search came up with lots of hits for 3.7 or 3.75, but that goes back to an unreliable source.

Along with "accepted to college with a full ride" and "600 hours of community service."

The college part seems unlikely. He was a junior in high school. Early acceptance, if I remember correctly is possible but later. I did know a kid who was promised a free ride at college during his junior year but it was funny combo football/engineering sort of thing to a lesser known engineering school. Great grades and a great season.

Sounds like somebody's engaging in hagiography.

[SoCalDem]

24. I gave birth to a "bad boy" who was in trouble a LOT.

He managed to grow up, turn his life around, get a good job, get married and have a beautiful little baby girl we just got back from visiting.. He had the privilege of growing up.

No one gunned him down , even though he did a LOT more than buy Arizona Iced Tea & Skittles.

just sayin'


I do not recall ANYONE saying that TM was an ":honor student" or that he had not been suspended from school (not that difficult to accomplish these days)..

My "bad boy and his little girl"



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