Posted on 06/09/2016 8:11:34 AM PDT by DFG
MONTGOMERY, N.J. – New Jersey education officials say a school was allowed to give detention to a sixth-grader who told a student who doesn't eat meat that "vegetarians are idiots" and that "he should eat meat because he'd be smarter and have bigger brains."
The Courier News of Bridgewater reports the state education commissioner's office ruled the Montgomery school district was allowed to discipline the student.
It happened in the Lower Middle School in 2014. School officials found the comments were harassment, intimidation and bullying because they targeted a "distinguishing characteristic" under state law. The student received five detentions.
The child's parent in 2015 challenged whether being a vegetarian met the legal definition of a distinguishing characteristic. A judge says yes.
The parent's attorney, Adam Wilson, says he doesn't plan to appeal.
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I have a son who is a vegetarian on moral grounds. He is not an idiot. He doesn’t preach or make a nuisance of himself. He is also a political and social conservative.
Oddly enough, an organization he belongs to has promulgated a non-discrimination statement that he can’t bring himself to sign, because of the vagueness and usually PC connotations of “discrimination.”
I didn't mean that we evolved to eat only meat. Certainly, we are omnivores. But meat is the preferred food.
He should have received a gold star.
Vegetarians are idiots. I knew a so called vegetarian who would order pepperoni pizza and throw the pepperoni in the garbage as if the meat fat hadn’t melted into the pizza. For someone who was supposed to love animals too much to eat them, she wasn’t opposed to killing them and tossing them into the garbage. She also ate pork and beans never realizing the “pork” on the label or the white cubes really is pork.
Years ago, I made the birthday boy a crawfish boil for his party. An idiot vegetarian knew ahead of time and I made a special meal for them but they refused to eat. They never came back. Good.
That is exactly my experiences with the few that I knew. It is as if they are always waiting for that point in a party to say “I can’t eat that, I am a vegetarian.”
My brother in law married a vegetarian who ate fish. She ate the fish that I made for her. Then she became a vegan, so I quit trying to please her.
My cousin is a strict vegan. Won’t even wear a leather belt or shoes. The whole clan went to his wedding about 20 years ago and it was a vegetarian reception. Some of my other cousins were ordering pizza. My wife, siblings and kids at least had the common courtesy to wait until the ride back to the hotel before pulling into a decent restaurant for some fried chicken.
School admin idiots took it personally.
Therefore, God eats meat.
they are idiots, I’ve been saying that for years. I guess I would be expelled from school for saying it so many times. BTW, “republican” Christie voted for the anti-bullying law..
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