Cute kid. Obviously a trouble-making gang member.
Posted on 07/08/2007 7:37:55 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
(7/07/07 - KATY, TX) - Writing "I love Alex" on a gymnasium wall dealt a suburban Houston sixth-grader four months at an alternative campus for an infraction school officials lump in the same severity as making terroristic threats.
Written with a baby blue marker, the graffiti by Shelby Sendelbach, 12, was considered by the Katy Independent School District as a Level 4 infraction -- also the same level for drug possession and assault.
Only murder, gun possession, sexual assault and arson are considered more severe by the district.
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Please see my post at #40
Only if she didn't go off the side of the mountain on her motorsicle and land on a cop car.
But what about the pickle?
We need to sue the suers as well.
Cute kid. Obviously a trouble-making gang member.
She didn’t get “suspended” she got sent to reform school. That said this was prolly an overreaction based in zero tolerance policies. Graffiti = You might be a gangster = Reform school.
As a public school employee for a Northern California School District I agree that the zero tolerence BS as exemplified in this case is outrageous. What happened to letting the punishment fit the crime/offense? The persons responsible for this travesty should be removed from their positions and lose all there benefits.
“Writing “I love Alex” on a gymnasium wall dealt a suburban Houston sixth-grader four months”
Schools love this stuff. They can brand her “at risk” and get a bigger chunk of change from the state.
The proper response is to have her clean up her mess, and clean the entire gym with a toothbrush.
problem solved, no taxpayer money wasted.
You just brought up an uncomfortable high school memory.
There was a kid that I had to sit next to in a couple of my classes because at the time, we were seated alphabetically throughout the school. He was the swishiest guy I had ever met, and he wasn't shy about it either. He would frequently wear a 1" diameter button that said "I Love Sex." It gets worse -- on his folders, where some kids would draw Hello Kitty or the logo of their favorite band, he would sketch -- wait for it -- phalluses.
Ridiculous overreaction. Make her clean the wall. Simple.
Correct. Conversely, kids don't get kicked out for stuff that would have gotten them expelled 20 years ago.
And for the same reason...
But the real question is left unanswered, does Alex love Shelby??
Funny thing is Seung-Hui Cho never got expelled for stalkling girls, taking upskirt photos with his cameraphone, and setting fire in his dorm room. Those are all real crimes and can get you kicked out and even jailed. I remember in college days, some dude lit a bag of s*** on fire on my floor and he was kicked out for from the dorm. Later on, he set fire to another dorm and died.
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