Posted on 12/16/2007 3:38:58 PM PST by achilles2000
GIG HARBOR, Wash. -- A Pierce County High School student is back in school after a three-day suspension for warning classmates about a sex offender on campus.
Last week, Raydon Gilmore found a 16-year-old fellow student at Gig Harbor High School at the Washington State Sex Offender Information Center, a Web site that lists the state's level 2 and level 3 sex offenders.
"Then it hit me that I was in P.E. freshman year, and this kid was there for a while and he was my neighbor at my locker," Gilmore told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.
The 16-year-old was convicted of indecent liberties and using force.
Gilmore made copies of the announcement and started handing them out to classmates "to let them know that we're going to school with dangerous people and to be more aware." Three other students helped create and distribute fliers. He said minutes later, the school's principal caught up with him.
Gilmore was suspended for three days. School officials said the fliers amounted to harassment and he was interfering with other students' education, according to school documents....
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Let’s play protect the pervert.
Unfortunately, the government school is institutionally “a pervert”.
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Of course, the school administration has definitely overreacted ... but I'm saying the law may have done so as well.
Looks like when it comes time to protect the kids with a warning...
then the administration ain’t for “free speech”.
No, its protect the principal.
“He said the students misused school property and they violated a rule that state officials must approve any materials that students post on campus walls.”
Oh my !!!
I guess somebody has egg on their face that they didn’t warn the other students. WOW.
What was the principal thinking? ——It’s only on the internet, so it must not be public information.——
This comes under the heading “Educators are some of the stupidest people in America”.
It was harrasement. He should have stuck to plain old word of mouth.
The principal thought that he could protect the kid’s privacy. My question is: was the kid being monitored? If not, the the rights of the other kids to a secure environment were not being protected. One of them ought to press charges.
The state is at odds with itself. The court or the sheriff is posting the info to protect the public and the principal is trying to protect the offender.
My wife is a high school teacher and agrees it’s about power.
The kid shouldn’t be expelled or suspended. On the other hand, that probably explains how a classmate got on the sexual offender list: Over reaching, over reacting “zero tolerance that doesn’t even take the age of a child or the circumstances of the event into account.
A 16 year old has no business on a “sex offender” list that’s published on line.
It’s doubtful that he or she is actually guilty of a sexual offense at that age. A 16 year old - or someone younger, since it was (hopefully) prior act - is not legally competent to give consent in most states, how can he or she be labeled for the rest of his life?
This is a liberal arts cultural center. He probably winked at a girl and offered to take her for pizza and a movie.
Many 16-year-old are almost fully grown, and in other times and places such people would not be allowed in scholl, or would be placed in “homes.” This kid may be such a person.
Exactly. And while "indecent liberties" isn't rape, how common is it now to plea down charges? It's entirely possible the indecent liberties was actually something more serious.
And here’s another one...
When I was in education we used to be required to attend a political correctness seminar once a year which went under the rubric of diversity awareness. There was always a pretest, which I always “aced.” Somebody asked me how I did that. I told the truth. You just pick the answer that is the dumbest choice and you’ll nail every question every time.
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