Posted on 05/08/2005 7:04:09 AM PDT by Nachum
Just exactly who was waiting to use the snow mound? Nitwit.
Every time they pay for something in MA they pay sales tax which goes into the state coffers. Much of that is paid out to the cities and towns in subsidies for such projects as school buildings and maintenance. So yes, they pay taxes.
You said: So, if me and four buddies, as taxpayers, decided to go down to the local high school and start playing basketball in the gym, then school authorities would have to tell the basketball team to wait until we were done?
If school authorities, and not the police, had asked the teens to leave school grounds (which is not likely, since school was closed), it would be a different story. Do the police have the authority to decide who may and who may not be on public property? Did anyone from the school, charged with running the school, tell them, or tell the police to tell them, to leave? No school meeting or function was being disrupted, as far as I can tell.
I support the job police have to do, but I am not sure that this was anything the police should have been involved in.
Check out the actual news site. Apparently, the assistant principal did call the cops.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=97716
That s'plains everything.
What are you, lady, the grammer police?
After all the rules are the rules are the rules, don't forget to genuflect before the almighty lawbook. /sarc
Stupid rules are stupid. Stupid applications of well meaning rules are also stupid. If the rules are not written to take into account instances in which the rules should not apply, as many petty rules are, then the rules should be tossed.
Increasingly, we see cases where people in authority are incapable of administering the rules with any sense of prosecutorial discretion.
Inner city kids are supposed to use school facilities after hours to play on outside basketball courts, but a few kids cannot use a snow pile to play on a snow day?
When authority is ludicrous, we rebel, in one way or another. Ever go faster than the posted speed limit?
As for homeschooling, at home the rules make sense.
With the incredible number of rules and regulations being promulgated daily, virtually anyone is in violation of some rule, somewhere, sometime. And the situation is getting worse, not better. Before long, every whiner who thinks "there ought to be a law" will have their way and we can all be in thrall to the state.
This article is about someone sticking their nose where it really doesn't belong, over stepping their authority, and here you are doing the same thing to someone for bad grammar.
Some people should be looking in the mirror.
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School grounds outside of the building should be treated essentially the same as park grounds. Park grounds are open to the public during the day. Comparing being outside in a parklike setting to being inside a secured building is just silly.
A school is public property. Last I heard, 18 year old kids were part of the public.
Where am I going wrong?
I assume the assistant principal has the authority to order students off school property when the school is closed- probably even when it's open.
Is that all they did? Maybe there are more facts. The kids would have fared better having sex somewhere warm. Then everybody would have been happy.
A neighbor gave my kid and me one of our happiest memories. They didn't object when he built, for him, and elaborate ski jump on their property. He was so proud of it, and I walked down the alley to see it and watch him perform. Another neighbor used to loan my kids their toboggan.
Thinking back, I should have asked the first neighbor if it was all right (he could have found me if he didn't like it) and made sure my son cleaned up the boards after he was done. I was a little negligent in the good neighbor department there, was really thoughtless of me, but I was younger and struggling to survive. If I see him out in his beautiful garden, I'll ask him if he remembers. Maybe somebody else owns the property now.
Another neighbor on one of the nicest streets in town, let the kids use their pool. When the flag was up, the kids could go swimming. I was a little leery about that because I didn't know how much supervision they were getting, but it was generous of them to think of the kids. The flag is long gone now. So are the kids. There are much fewer around here, and it has one of the best elementary schools in town.
Now everybody, including me, is so afraid of lawsuits, things are different. I even worry about it when I catch the neighbor kids in my trees. Sometimes I give permission, but watch them like a hawk and then tell them time to come down. Watching one girl go so high up and the gyrations to reach an apple was really something. I just had to ask her to come down, saying I didn't mind them taking the apples, but didn't want them to get hurt. I used to love to climb trees, but one mad parent and lawsuit my less friendly insurance company could try to weasle out of could finish me off. I doubt a release form, making the parents sign, blah blah would hold up in court anyway.
"...order from Assistant Superintendent Ed Torti to leave the school grounds..." Well is it an "assistant principal" or an "Assistant Superintendent"? One thing is clear this Ed Torti is bucking to be an "Assistant Warden", the truly sad thing is that he is on the public payroll.
Actually, the entire article isn't posted here. I went to the link and searched on what kankor posted, and it was there.
The school superintendent asked them to leave, and when they refused, he called the cops.
I still believe this is a rediculous escalation for playing in the snow.
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