Just damn.
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Posted on 09/23/2004 2:20:45 PM PDT by mhking
DUNLAP, Ind. (AP) A northern Indiana father says he's outraged that school officials duct-taped his 12-year-old son's pants, then sent him back to class.
Scott Allison's son, Spencer, told him that an assistant principal wrapped duct tape around the boy's waist because his pants were sagging, in violation of the school's dress code.
Spencer attends Concord Junior High school in Dunlap, about 20 miles east of South Bend.
Scott Allison told the Concord School Board he's worried that his son would be mocked by his classmates.
Board President Randall Myers says the board won't discuss personnel issues in public. Junior high Principal Kevin Caird says student discipline is confidential.
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If student discipline is confidential, then what's with the duct tape? Did the principal think it was invisible or what?
Who knows. I've already told my sixteen year-old that any kid that shows up in my house with pants too low will be met at the door by me with duck tape and a staple gun.
Oh no, not mocked by his classmates. This is horrible. I hope this family gets millions out of a lawsuit. Imagine school kids mocking someone. This is outrageous.
Although, I wonder if the father considered that some, like myself, would have been making fun of his son for having saggy pants in the first place.
Good. Let him be mocked. Next time he'll wear a belt.
I assume that the boy had the pants that are supposed to hang around the knees and display the wearer's underwear.
If so the other parents and students have much better grounds for being offended.
I AGREE. Discipline is getting thier attention.
This is a duplicate to a thread posted yesterday. I have seen it before.
Good for you and good for this school
The father needs an attitude adjustment - which is probably why the kid thought nothing of breaking the rules.
As long as he didn't tape it to his skin... I've used duct tape before for cracks but , what a good idea. I'm going to try that the next time I see my grown son in those baggy a$$ pants. I bet I could even make him some suspenders. :')
There's a quick and easy solution to this sort of problem--the pants, the teasing, all of it. Abolish government schrools. The last people I will defend are authoritarian government employees.
What's wrong with a duct tape belt?
BRAVO!!!!!
Sounds like the father has a problem too. If my son came home with a similar complaint, I'd probably mock him too and then duct tape his mouth.
The guy should buy his son a belt and teach him how it works.
[First, a funky a#@ beat .... bring on da bass ... scratchin, seen?.....]
"Straight outta Dunlap ..... "
But the problem is that some kids violate the dress code with the intention of being sent home.
The surprising part is how young they are and that their parents are complicit. That way they can say .... "well I sent him to school".
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