Not yet, but with Dad industriously teaching her how to flaunt authority, she might grow up to be Che Guevara.
It is a stupid rule, but this girl needs to learn there are proper procedures for civilized people to address their grievences - Civil disobedience, glorified by the communist M.L.King - is to reserved a s last resort after all other options have been approached.
That is how we do things in what is supposed to be our representative republic - we are NOT a democracy for mob rule or anarchy.
She needs suspension the next time and her father can go to jail for encouraging truancy .
That arguement won't fly - several states use the EXACT same assumption in their game & fish regulations and enforcement. Such laws in that case have been upheld...
Furthermore - even though I don't agree with the rule (unless there is far more to this story - and an ongoing discipline problem that we have not heard about), the rule sounds pretty simple to follow. I wonder if she made an effort to request a change in seats. Also - is there any possibility she was one who caused trouble and resulted in the seating arrangement?
She also violated the policy not once, but three times.
If this lawsuit goes anywhere - it's a travesty of justice.
"I think the school thinks the students are going to cause trouble at lunch. It's wrong to punish the kids who do nothing. We need to talk to our friends during lunch," Gianna LoPresti said.
You need to shut up and learn you little witch. School is for learning not whatever you want it to be.
sheesh, no wonder the kid's a brat.
The way this should have been handled by the father would be to tell the daughter that she broke the rule and therefore must pay the consequences. However, also explain to her that she went about trying to change this rule in the incorrect fashion and offer to try to talk to the school administration about getting her seating arrangement and/or the rule changed.
Lunch wa sthe only time that we didn't have assigned seating. It was nice to actually be able to sit with your frineds.
While in school, also during the middle of the 70's for elementary school, we had to sit with our class. The teacher sat at the head of the table. We could sit with anone we wanted too, as long as it was at our assigned tables. The only time we had assigned seats was if we were bad during class time and the teacher would give us the dreaded boy girl boy girl asssigned seats. (In kindergarten this was horrible).
Even in the 7th grade, we still had to sit with our class. I believe just one of the many problems with public school is the presence of real discipline. In every day life, I am sure everyone of us has a rule, or group of rules that really sucks. We have to follow them anyway, or suffer the consequences. This man, should quite honestly, use this instance to teach his daughter there are going to be many rules she is not going to like that are going to require her to follow them any way. No one gets to pick and choose which rules we will follow, and which ones we won't follow.
I would be very interested in seeing how this turns out.
This guy is going to create an out of control teenager.
Laws and rules are for little people.
Obviously this girl has never been told no in her life.
She is heading for disaster butwhen it happens it will be someone else's fault not hers.
Don't believe it? Ask her father.
He probably will blame President Bush.
The rules aren't in place for the kids. Its there for the teachers so they can sit on their fat lazy asses. They want to be babysitters, not teachers. Why, a kid might do something wrong and then the "teachers" would have to DO something about it, like correction.
Hell just shackle them and go have a cig.
Sorry Mr. LoPresti, but you are wrong. It is a prison.
While I happen to agree with LoPresti on principle, I'm against getting the ACLU involved.
What he should do is get a solid school board slate going and change the rules that way. That would be more constructive, and more painful to the ninnies.
Don't bother calling the other reverend, Al Sharpton! I hear he's working overtime at Denny's to pay back the U.S. Taxpayers that $100,000 in matching funds he fraudulently acquired!
Will the father sue the school again when his poor baby is burdened with too much homework?
"Loser pays" sounds more and more palatable right about now...
Just this morning on the news, there was a report that the city of Seattle has to put up a fence along a railroad track to keep people walking on the tracks because the fools are actually GETTING RUN OVER BY TRAINS!!!! Wow!!! Go figure.
$75,000 tax payer money. The city says it decided to do the fence because the LAW SUITS were costing more. People walk on the tracks, get killed by a train and the family SUES the city for not putting a fence up to keep these STUPID DEMOCRATIC VOTERS from walking on the damned train tracks!!! And these fools actually win and get money for their stupid family members hit by a train. Like a train can GO AROUND THEM OR SOMETHING!!!
One interview was with a girl crying, yelling, screaming how her best friend was killed by that mean old train while WALKING ON THE TRACKS!!! What a wonderful, great, smart, going places she was going to be. Now her life is cut short by this horrible train. Mean ole train. What this girl forgot to add was that her friend, along with all these smarts, was incredibly stupid for walking on a train tracks. Like, couldn't you hear the damned train coming or did you simply expect the train to stop for you?
This country has lost it. It has actually lost all perspective on being anything, closely related, to being normal.
So this whiner doesn't like the idea of controlling chaos. Any bets who HE will be voting for in November?
The prison part is debatable.
Excuse me for bucking the police-state mentality -- but assigned seating at lunch? Uh, no.