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2004-06-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

Judge: School Officials Abused Discretion in Zero Tolerance Case

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-18 4:15:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just to tweak school officials, this kid should carry around the school grounds a photograph of a pistol.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-18 10:58:38 AM|| 2004-06-18 10:58:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 True stories from the Heartland- little Clinton Iowa. About 4 years ago we had a kindergartener given a 3 day suspension for packing a clear red plastic water pistol. Two years ago, my 2nd grade son was denied showing a magazine in class because it had a picture of a gun on the cover.

I won't put it past the PC crowd to outlaw the letters g,u and n, because of what they can be used to spell.

Posted by Craig 2004-06-18 12:11:32 PM|| 2004-06-18 12:11:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 and get expelled for it bomb..

hell my school tried to have me expelled because I had the ability to send e-mail
(they made it difficult to achieve, but I never signed no paper saying 'I will not send e-mail while at school')
public school is worthless

Posted by dcreeper 2004-06-18 12:44:26 PM|| 2004-06-18 12:44:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Just wondering, don't public education officials have enough problems with the fact that they're proven failures? Isn't it a well-known, hell - world renowned, fact that US schoolchildren are poorly educated and falling behind? I believe that would indicate failure.

I suggest that they stop making policy and playing lawyer long enough to correct some of the flaws in our public education system. First they could cut Admin by half (the top half) and use that money to lure better qualified and motivated people to become teachers. Second, most school boards should have a Jonestown-styled Kool-Aid party. I think these two actions would be a fair start. Then we can see if there is any reason to believe the LLL lunacy can be moderated without the wholesale 're-education*' of the agencies, institutes, think-tanks, universities, and theorists who direct the education material publishers to revise everything that doesn't suit their lunatic hate-America agenda.

IMHO, this is easily the most dangerous and egregious misuse of power and usurption of rights (to the simple unadorned / unmodified truth) in America today. Faith-based groups infringing upon the Constitution? Pfeh. Patriot Act undermining rights? Bullshit. This is it: our future. Even the Wahhabists get it - this is literally the most important aspect of any society - those who prevail and wield power in Education today, determine who rules, and how, tomorrow.

* Define 're-educate' any way you like.

Posted by .com 2004-06-18 1:29:01 PM|| [http://www.amble.com/images/Rummy_Civil_Defense.jpg] 2004-06-18 1:29:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "[D]on't public education officials have enough problems..."

It's the Standard Bureaucratic Responseâ¢: When you don't want to do the work that you're supposed to do, make a big noise doing something else-- and hope nobody notices. Nothing new here.

Posted by Old Grouch 2004-06-18 2:56:53 PM|| 2004-06-18 2:56:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Would there even be a 'zero' tolerence program if we could all be reasonable? However, the first reaction of many parents, no matter what the behavior of their offspring may be, is to threaten to sue the school system. So in defense, the administrators hid behind a simple 'zero' no wiggle room dictate. However, that too has its pitfalls as herein demonstated.

Posted by Don 2004-06-18 11:48:14 PM|| 2004-06-18 11:48:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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