Austin and Teresa Fisher
Posted on 04/16/2012 2:11:27 PM PDT by Velveeta
Petition http://www.change.org/petitions/allow-austin-fisher-to-walk-and-graduate-with-his-2012-class-after-caring-for-his-sick-mom
“Let Fish Walk” Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/281683671915631/
Sounds pretty legitimate to me.
This is a further anecdotal indication that the average public school administrator is a blithering idiot.
Another case of zero-tolerance = Lack of common sense.
Rules are Rules. Sorry pal. You knew the drill when you first signed into the vast lunacy of the edjamacashional system.
Perhaps they’ll mail your diploma to you.
/sarc
One indicator it is past time to hit the reset button is when the letter of the law out weighs the spirit of the law.
Our culture is rapidly becoming something that should not be salvaged.
Reset.
He should have told them she was dieing of AIDS. Free pass and a tutor would have been minimum.
Punish him for caring for his family ... that should be the job of the state.
If his mom had medical issues he should have let the state assume custody of him. No child should ever be allowed to care for a parent.
Bad boy, punishment due.
/sarcasm
My suggestion, if Austin Fisher is not allowed to walk, then all Seniors should sit down and refuse to walk in support of Austin.
Hoping all good FReepers will sign the petition and pass the word.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if all his classmates boycotted the graduation exercise in sympathy?
I’m choking back tears at the thought of it.
My suggestion is that if he's not allowed to walk, they all should stand up, turn around, lift their gowns, and display a bright shining mooooon to the pigs who call themselves "educators."
I understand rule, but they must be tempered with common sense.
Twitter #letfishwalk
I totally agree.
School phone number 330.627.2134
Why doesn’t his mom call in and excuse his absences?
Every year about this time we get treated to a plethora of sob stories about poor graduates who won’t be able to “walk,” because of some horrible injustice. Situations transpire.
“This is a further anecdotal indication that the average public school administrator is a blithering idiot.”
And the others are raving lunatics...
As someone who used to have an office down the hall from the Arkansas Education Association I got a real education!
The ones who could speak English (not Ebonics) were arrogant jackasses and the others just followed orders to keep their high paying ‘jobs’. They all came to work when they damned well pleased and much of the time they brought their dozens of loud brats with them.
They closed this office THANK GOD!
Austin and Teresa Fisher
If this was downtown Cleveland, they could probably fit the entire “graduating” class into a small elevator.
“Our culture is rapidly becoming something that should not be salvaged.
Reset.”
Post of the decade!!!
If I were a student there that wouldbe my answer. When they called my name I would sit there and not move.
That’s just absolute crap. He took two jobs, cared for his ailing mother, and he still got enough of his schoolwork done that he was eligible to graduate.
The kid deserves a standing ovation.
So this is a law, a rule if you will THEY choose to enforce.
Seems to me one of the biggest problems we have had leading up to the “H” of a mess we have in our society today includes the lack of laws, rules enforcement at the hands of Leftists no less.
THEY take a stand on something like this!?
INCREDIBLE!
Well......Up is down, and down is up with the Left in charge of anything. What a mess!
Actually, it seems according to the article that it is his sick mother who wants to see him walk. I guess the school system’s message to her is that she should not have been so sick.
Do not know about Ohio, but in California absences are only excused if the student is sick - no exceptions.
“I understand rule, but they must be tempered with common sense.”
Please...this IS a school system we are talking about.
Invoking common sense to them is like explaining virtue to a crack whore.
Because he didn’t get the absences excused on a daily basis or because the school allows only so many before they stop dxcusing them, likely.
In some schools that’s not good enough. My son missed two days of school this year. Each time,I phoned pupil accounting before 9 a.m. as the policy calls for. Both days were “unexcused” because he didn’t have a doctor’s note!
Why doesn't the senior class take 14 unexcused days off; then no one can walk the line.
It’s just possible she wasn’t feeling up to it.
The school administrators in this case are clearly dangerously sociopathic. They should not be allowed near children or small animals.
My children would be up a creek then. We only go to the doctor when there might be a broken bone or when we think antibiotics might be needed. Otherwise, we would waste the doctor’s time A LOT. Our pediatrician would gladly provide a signed note any time we asked, but I consider that a waste of her time and her nurse’s time as well. It should be enough for a parent to call or write a note of excuse for whatever reason. If the student has the grades to meet graduation requirements, then he/she should be able to walk.
Everyone is missing the elephant in the room.
He’s male. Strike One.
He’s white. Strike Two.
He’s self-reliant. Strike Three.
If he is heterosexual, then he is really sunk.
that was my thought, too .. but I think the school district will cave to the (appropriate) pressure.
How much suffering can people actually endure? Auschwitz was a day trip to the beach compared to this.
It’s not an excuse if the parent sends it in. It has to be signed by a doctor.
I managed to get a blanket excuse for my son’s migraines - a letter from his doctor that says he has them and their rough frequency.
Some districts would want my son to see the doctor every time he had a migraine. Why? It’s completely subjective unless you put him in a CT scanner, and the doctor can’t fix it any better than the medication already prescribed.
Same thing with viruses and fevers - some districts you’re supposed to drag your child to the doctor, infect the other patients in the waiting room, make your child miserable, and get told,”It’s a virus, he’ll be better in a few days. Here’s an absence note.”
Same with some jobs.
If the school administration had any common sense, any compassion, any decency, any honor, they’d waive the requirement in an instant - what does the word “guideline” mean, anyway?
It’s not an excuse if the parent sends it in. It has to be signed by a doctor.
I managed to get a blanket excuse for my son’s migraines - a letter from his doctor that says he has them and their rough frequency.
Some districts would want my son to see the doctor every time he had a migraine. Why? It’s completely subjective unless you put him in a CT scanner, and the doctor can’t fix it any better than the medication already prescribed.
Same thing with viruses and fevers - some districts you’re supposed to drag your child to the doctor, infect the other patients in the waiting room, make your child miserable, and get told,”It’s a virus, he’ll be better in a few days. Here’s an absence note.”
Same with some jobs.
If the school administration had any common sense, any compassion, any decency, any honor, they’d waive the requirement in an instant - what does the word “guideline” mean, anyway?
And virtually all of them hold advanced degrees.
Might be a Christian to boot.
Strike Four.
I even believe if he were black, the school would trumpet him around like a hero. They can suspend zero tolerance if it’s a certain group that makes them look even better. If there’s no upside for them personally, then zero tolerance stays.
"You never know how much time you have left and that was one of her big [goals] — to see me walk and get my diploma and go off to college. I wouldn't change it, everything I did. Family first."
Did he never try to get those absences excused?
Bingo.
...and when Obamacare kicks in bribes & extortion will be the name of the game to get excuses for jobs or school. Then they’ll start asking really personal questions.
Once again, the public schools show their true colors.
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