Posted on 03/22/2007 2:49:21 AM PDT by Calpernia
Is Big Brother coming to a school near you?
Last month the Pequannock school board made national headlines when it began to randomly administer a new high-tech test - that determines whether a student consumed any alcohol in the previous 4 days.
A few days ago, the Moorestown school board approved a tough new drug and alcohol policy that regulates student behavior 24-7 - even on weekends and over the summer.
Some parents are voicing outrage at what's happening, but Mike Yaple, a spokesman with the New Jersey School Boards Association says there is a State regulation that addresses this very issue- that indicates "schools do have the right to impose a consequence on a student for conduct away from school grounds - it goes on to say that it has to be reasonably necessary for the physical or emotional safety of the student, or other students or staff."
He says "you're seeing a change in attitudes- the absolute realization that drugs ruin lives- and school officials aren't going to turn the other way if kids are doing drugs."
After being contacted by Millennium Radio News for comment, Deborah Jacobs, the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey issued a written statement saying "The desire to protect young people from the dangers of drug abuse is understandable, but what kids do over the weekend is their parents' business. The school district is overstepping its authority with a punitive policy that disregards family privacy and parental authority."
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Good morning...in Brick we have a policy too now for a a few years. If your child got into a fight at the park etc after school they could suspend him/her. They would drug test any child who fell asleep during class too. I don't really remember them using it but it was there to deter children from getting in trouble. We were having many problems at the mall & movies so they did this to stop it IMO. I know that none of my boys were subject to it. The youngest son, now 20 got hit from behind at the movies, he turned told the kid to get out of his area. The boy went at him again & Jon hit him so hard he knocked him out. After picking him up at the police station they told me to get him into boxing. The school didn't say a word & had they I would have got a lawyer. I think its getting to the point where they need to mind their own business. I just want them to TEACH! Not teach my child about anything related to gays or global warming. I should be doing that.
This law was during summer too?
I really don't know. I thought it was silly....My boys were NO saints but had anyone tried to infringe on their out of school life I would have fought it. The school is going too far....IMHO.
This new policy Morristown is imposing includes summers.
Watch the schools jump to add the food policy to it.
Watch, since they will be 'responsible' for the children's behavior off school hours, we will have to register their where abouts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
It's not a law. It's merely words on paper from the dept. of education or the local school. If the school board members think about enforcing it, the parents will see they're voted out. With all this, I'm hoping the SC will shoot down that Bong Hits for Jesus. The lower courts have ruled in favor of the kid and I'm sure the SC will as well.
GO BONG KID!!! GO BONG KID!!! GO BONG KID!!!
Fair enough, they want to test the kids, then line up the teachers and board members for the same tests.
That will end all this nonsense.
Forget about the drug testing. That is the red herring.
This policy is making the schools responsible for the chldren's behavior on and off hours.
That makes the parents the 'stakeholders' just like in the wording of Healthy People 2010.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
I have already foreseen my death. Telling someone to be quiet in a movie theatre and then getting shot in return.
I wont go to them. I see no point. I would rather wait & get movies on dvd. Those kids are horrors, they toss stuff all around. I just figure why get abused & pay for it.
My biggest problem is old folks like me who have to explain the movie to each other, someone who wants to provide a running commentary, or some couple that thinks they're at home and can gab it up all the way through.
I usually sit center and will be there a few minutes early. Just before the lights go down. some idiots will come in and sit near me. I'm a magnet.
I hear you...I am one too. If theres a nut or strange person they find me & tell me all their problems. Drives my husband nuts. He says walk away but I feel bad. I am forever talking to elderly ladies in the supermarket. I think they're just lonely & it doesn't hurt to be nice to them. I get good food tips too. Plus they are nice to my daughter who has no grandma's so she likes to talk with them. ~P~
So do they do the same for the teachers and other school administrators?
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Schools often have insufficient resources to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted continuum of interventions. By having direct contact with families and key informants in the community, schools are better able to identify barriers to student success and well-being and better equipped to develop solutions that overcome these barriers. Schools can enhance home-school links by sharing concerns with families and developing solutions that address students' unique needs. |
I thought parents were responsible for student's behaviors between and even during school hours.
Parents have now been declared 'stakeholders' via this National Education Policy.
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