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09-22-2008, 10:35 AM
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More Zero-Tolerance Insanity
More Zero-Tolerance Insanity
by RS Davis The Freedom Files  Hello Freedomphiles! You know how I feel about zero tolerance policies - they are completely counter-productive and the easiest way to ruin a good kid for one honest mistake. Well, it appears we have yet another example of this horrible 100% intolerance policy messing with an otherwise good kid. Blaine High School senior Tony Richard was in line as the school security guard was checking parking passes. Said Richard: "They asked if I had anything in my car, and I said no. And then they asked me if I'm sure and I said yes." Richard was understandably nervous - they knew something they weren't telling him. You see, as part of his part time job at Cub Foods, Tony used a box cutter every day. One day at the end of his shift, he threw it in his car and forgot about it. "I didn't realize that, I didn't think about it. I just threw it in there after work one day so I wouldn't rip my car seat or something." That is, until nosy school administrators found it while snooping around cars in the school parking lot. Now, Tony is suspended for at least 11 days while the school board decides whether to expel him for the entire year for bringing a "weapon" into the school. Of course, it never actually made it into the school, but the punishment is the same. His mother, Michelle Richard mentioned, "That's exactly what they would do in those cases too, they recommend expulsion." The school board will decide tonight at the meeting whether to keep their heads up their asses or behave like rational adults. More here.
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09-22-2008, 11:01 AM
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And liberals insist that all this trust in the government is a good thing!
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09-22-2008, 11:04 AM
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Fifty says that they keep their heads up there asses. I agree with you 100% on this. Some people just love idiotic policies.
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09-22-2008, 11:09 AM
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Yes, it's ridiculous, RS. And I mentioned in another thread how my then-eighth grader was suspended for three days because she and a friend each spit once in a stairwell in play. While I argued with her principal, I kept watching for the Hazmat team to burst into the school.
Cindy
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09-22-2008, 01:32 PM
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Dumb, dumb, dumb. RS, will you post a follow-up on this, to let us know what happened to this poor kid?
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09-22-2008, 01:41 PM
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Quote:
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09-22-2008, 01:42 PM
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I carried my pocket knife to school all the time in High School, nobody cared. This was in the late 1990's though, when teachers and administrators were still allowed to think for themselves.
Wannabe-gangster carrying a knife? Confiscate it, suspend or expel on subsequent offenses. Normal kid wearing a nice shirt and jeans who's graduating magna cum laude? What knife? I really hate the nanny-state, feel-good crap.
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09-22-2008, 01:49 PM
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Tiresome blanket "nanny-state" rhetoric aside, there just doesn't seem to be any common sense. Kids getting suspended/expelled for bringing Midol or aspirin to school? Come on.
Then again, I am not sure what to make of the people arguing for the ability for kids to bring guns to school, either. Apparently a lot has changed in the public schools in the last 20 years.......
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09-22-2008, 02:49 PM
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I'll keep my eyes open for updates!
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