Posted on 05/21/2004 7:24:58 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
A zero tolerance policy is keeping one A&M Consolidated student from participating in graduation. But many of his classmates say he did the right thing when he told a teacher he had forgotten about hunting rifles left in his vehicle.
College Station administrators were faced with a tough decision this week when a student accidentially forgot two hunting rifles were in his vehicle at school. But a state law calling for zero tolerance pratically made the decision for them.
"State law was pretty clear. If a student brings a fire arm to school, the student shall be expelled from school," says Eddie Coulson, Deputy Superintendent of College Station's school district.
But the incident is not as clear-cut as the policy.
Because the student is a gradating senior, the school says expulsion bars him from graduation ceremonies.
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Zero tolerance for the zero-IQ crowd.
Too bad the author didn't GRADUATE from English class.
Zero tollerance? Only for left wing based causes. Is there zero tollerance for failing to keep parents notified of teachers sex ed curriculum? no.
Zero tollerance is a tool of the stupid to control the sheep.
The only lesson hear is DO NOT TRUST ANY SCHOOL, keep your mouth shut. A lesson which will not be lost on these students. Nice going school board.
{In my Boris Karloff voice} "Gunnn,,,,Baadd"
My high school had a shooting class. Not on premises, of course.
Rule one: volunteering information to any government employee is likely to turn out badly
I want reparations.
Madness ...
Used to be you had to actually do something wrong before you were punished.
He was an idiot for telling.
Is this story about zero tolerance or intelligence?
Hey, while I am no fan of zero tolerance and find the indiscriminate enforcing of it to be ridiculous in most situations lets acknowledge that the student is an idiot twicefold forboth admitting to it and for leaving rifles in his car and forgetting about them in the first place. Don't know exactly where this happened , appears to be texas, but you don't leave rifles in a car here in the northeast, in fact you don't leave anything that you want to see again for that matter. I would never "forget" firearms in my car and its a crime over here to to do so. I can understand if you leave them in while you run into the drugstore on your way back from hunting /shooting but to leave them in there and forget about them while anyone can just come and take them is idiocy. Maybe its okay in montana or nebraska where you can reasonably expect to see your car still intact when you return to it but in a highly populated area its unacceptable. My heart skips a beat when I rememeber I left my wallet in the front seat of my car, can only imagine what would happen if I thought I left my guns there. Kid should have ditched and headed home upon his realization. Chalk it up to experience and a lesson in the truth will never set you free category.
He just got smashed in the face with Realworld Civics 101.
Texas?
While we ask the Iraqis nicely to not fire their AK-47s into the air while celebrating.
College Station, TX is about as un-Northeast as you can get. He's in an environment where only pissant school administrators would be concerned about guns in the kid's vehicle.
zero tolerance(?)
we don't have the time, energy or intellectual powers to be discretionary.
smacks of Robespierre.
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