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Ammonut
12 March 2008, 09:43
I can't imagine that this is the most pressing issue anyone had to deal with in this school. Why is it that administrators and teachers feel the need to hang kids for this kind of petty crap?:confused:
http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=8002717
Chubs
12 March 2008, 10:10
Haha wow. I could've been that kid. I used to sell candy and gum to all the students.
Pickpocket
12 March 2008, 10:29
Unfortunately, it hasn't been kept up... but it's still an ok site.
http://zerointelligence.net
As a dad with kids in the public school system, this crap gets under my skin.
Longrifle
12 March 2008, 11:20
As a dad with kids in the public school system, this crap gets under my skin.
Mine, too. But, for the sake of discussion, what do you do when the rule has been on the books for five years and consequences for violating the rules are clearly set out and have been enforced prior to this incident? Has no one griped before now?
If the original rule is now deemed stupid, man up and change it. If it's valid, enforce it.
I think this is yet another example of how much we've been dumbed down by lawyers.
"The first thing we do, is kill all the lawyers." ~ Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Shakespeare)
You'd think schools could figure out some NJP for kids that have the occasional fuckup -- rather than convincing them at an early age that the system is fucked up and so are the assclown bureaucrats that work in it....
Haha wow. I could've been that kid. I used to sell candy and gum to all the students.
Hell yeah. I was lucky enough to live next door to a guy who had his license and drove to school. In 9th grade we'd stop by the store and I'd buy an entire box of Charms Blow Pops and another of Atomic Fireballs. The Blow Pops I'd buy for 10 cents and sell for .25 cents. The Fireballs I'd buy for a nickel and sell for 15 cents.
Louis
12 March 2008, 11:50
Wow what a bad kid :confused: :rolleyes: Rules are rules but at the same time kids will be kids and whats the harm in a bit of candy. At least he didn't have drugs on him.
Louis
12 March 2008, 11:51
SOTB
+ 1
My 16 year old daughter has be late to school (by a minute or two) several times in the past month. She was ten feet from her homeroom this morning when the bell rang. The dean saw her, told her that she'd been warned to not be late and she told her to go home. :confused: :confused:
Yes, she broke the rules and she should be punished (cleaning the teachers lounge after school, making copies for the office) but when since is being sent home a punishment? She shouldn't miss all her classes because she was a minute late. I just don't understand the administration's logic. :mad:
Longrifle
12 March 2008, 12:21
In 9th grade we'd stop by the store and I'd buy an entire box of Charms Blow Pops and another of Atomic Fireballs. The Blow Pops I'd buy for 10 cents and sell for .25 cents. The Fireballs I'd buy for a nickel and sell for 15 cents.
When I was in 9th grade we'd pour carbide into the toilets and set fire to the acetylene gas that was given off.
I was a good kid . . .
Too many administrators get their panties in a wad over trivial things these days. Our kids are pussified.
grog18b
12 March 2008, 13:13
Our school had a store in it that sold candy. That's a darn good reason to ruin an 8th grade honor student. *insert sarcasm here* Numbnuts rule!
rgrjoe175
12 March 2008, 13:30
My 16 year old daughter has be late to school (by a minute or two) several times in the past month. She was ten feet from her homeroom this morning when the bell rang. The dean saw her, told her that she'd been warned to not be late and she told her to go home. :confused: :confused:
It is time for you to hire an exorsist for that demon child of yours.
LRS Guy
12 March 2008, 13:59
Damm! I guess I would have been in real hot water for pouring "doe-in-heat-scent" in the heaters in my high school in Dec.
Good thing they never figured out who it was.
Remember the little glass vial stinkbombs that you could crush and foul up an entire auditorium?
I mean I don't, I just heard of them...
Chubs
12 March 2008, 14:03
Hell yeah. I was lucky enough to live next door to a guy who had his license and drove to school. In 9th grade we'd stop by the store and I'd buy an entire box of Charms Blow Pops and another of Atomic Fireballs. The Blow Pops I'd buy for 10 cents and sell for .25 cents. The Fireballs I'd buy for a nickel and sell for 15 cents.
Haha shit those were the good days. I used to pick up those .25 cent packs of Winterfresh and sell a stick for .25 cents. Ended up making a dollar for every pack I brought to schoo. Talk about ROI.
rwdavisjr
12 March 2008, 19:00
We'd drop M-80s down the toilets just to see the big splash.
School today is too concerned with being PC than in providing a good education
It is time for you to hire an exorsist for that demon child of yours.
Oh, we had a 'come to Jesus' meeting! She's still shakin'. ;)
Boats
12 March 2008, 20:04
We'd drop M-80s down the toilets just to see the big splash.
School today is too concerned with being PC than in providing a good education
Cherry Bombs (circa 1959) lit and flushed down a third floor toilet makes a hellofa hole in the wall plaster of the second floor English classroom...or so I've heard...
So (I a m just guessin here) this district doesn't have candy sales fundraisers?
You'd think schools could figure out some NJP for kids that have the occasional fuckup -- rather than convincing them at an early age that the system is fucked up and so are the assclown bureaucrats that work in it....
Agreed. I understand rules are rules, but give me a freakin' break. This school admininstration's priorities are obviously set to "Head Up Ass." This kid should have been praised for his good capitalist instincts, and used as a poster child to show the rest of the school why communism failed.
C-M-R
13 March 2008, 06:57
Yes, she broke the rules and she should be punished (cleaning the teachers lounge after school, making copies for the office) but when since is being sent home a punishment? She shouldn't miss all her classes because she was a minute late. I just don't understand the administration's logic. :mad:
I don't understand it either but it's happening in other schools too.
Zac was late to PE class so the teacher said he couldn't suit up for the rest of the week. They only do actual PE every other week as it. Off weeks they do health classes.
Denying him a class as punishment seemed totally wrong to me. I thought he was lying to me when he first told me what happened. I went to the school and asked what the logic was behind that and if it was a school wide thing.
He hates his science class so if he's late he doesn't have to go. Would that work for anybody? Nonsense was my opinion.
grappler
13 March 2008, 07:32
"My intention throughout was - and still is - to maintain a safe and orderly building" Eleanor Turner, Principal of Sheridan
Since when is candy in schools dangerous? My high school had soda machines and candy machines gallore.
So we have a good kid(VP of his Government class, Honor Student) that messed up and bought a bag of skittles. Wow...
Longrifle
13 March 2008, 10:58
Wisdom has prevailed. Link here. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/skittles.suspension.ap/index.html)
SheJAG
13 March 2008, 18:59
So (I a m just guessin here) this district doesn't have candy sales fundraisers?
I'm sure they have those fundraisers...just not to each other at school. You, dear parent, are supposed to take that junk to work and sell it to all your colleagues...
in violation of the JER and several other provisions of title 5 .....
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