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Posted on 09/29/2004 5:28:16 AM PDT by closet freeper
A Rockdale County father is fuming over his daughter’s in-school suspension. He said the teen’s only crime was simply smelling like smoke. Salem High School said it was standing by its strict no-smoking policy.
Carlton Bates said his 17-year-old daughter, Amanda, went to the office at Salem and told an assistant principal she had an upset stomach.
The administrator there “grabbed her shirt, smelled it, started smelling her hair and said, ‘You’ve been smoking,’ and my daughter replied, ‘I haven’t been smoking, I don’t smoke,’” Bates said.
“She was not caught smoking, she was accused of smelling like smoke and put on five days’ suspension for that reason,” he added.
Salem’s principal Robert Cresswell stood by the school’s policy.
“Basically the girl smelled very strongly of smoke and we handled it as consistently and fair as we normally handle things,” he said.
Cresswell said the rules were no smoking or possession of smoking paraphernalia on campus. Smelling like smoke is not a violation but “we assume if you smell strongly of smoke, you’ve been smoking,” he said.
The girl’s father said he does not condone kids’ smoking, but he believes Amanda may have just been around friends who smoked off campus before school.
“She’s never been in trouble with that school system. We’ve talked to her teachers, they love the kid. She’s been a good daughter to us and I believe her,” Bates said. “If she says she’s not smoking, she’s not smoking.”
Bates has written the Rockdale County School Board asking for an apology and his daughter’s record to be cleared.
Amanda’s suspension is effective immediately. Principal Cresswell said the in-school suspension will not be a permanent entry on Amanda’s school transcripts.
This is a BIG assumption.
She was smoking.
5 posted on 09/29/2004 5:31:30 AM PDT by Lonely NY Conservative
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My woodshop teacher/Lacrosse coach had the coolest water bong in the woodshop building. He didn't mind if students used it as long as they shared their weed. We could smoke right in the woodshop. This was a prep school, and I graduated in '84.
“Basically the girl smelled very strongly of smoke and we handled it as consistently and fair as we normally handle things,” he said.
"innocent until proven guilty' is a standard applicable ONLY in criminal court. In civil court you may indeed have to prove your innocence. In the court of public opinion 'you're damned just because I say so'!!
My gut tells me the girl was probably smoking and the father's first instinct was to defend her - understandable, but you're sending the wrong message. If she's telling the truth and got suspended it still sends a reasonable message about choosing one's friends. I don't see the upside, from a parenting point of view, of running to the news media about this. Watch for the lawyers crawling out of their wormholes next, and eventually the girl will fess up and tell everyone that she actually was smoking. All she learned was that she could snap her fingers and have the world revolve around her.
I hope this dad sues the district, the school, and the principal; wins a ton of dough; and that the principal gets reassigned to teaching remedial social studies.
That's a thought. It's so dangerous to send kids to public schools that have these policies. Too many kids' academic careers and futures have been destroyed by asinine zero-brains policies and the idiots who enforce them. There are too many stupid school administrators today.
That only applies in US courts of law, and then only theoretically. Schools are dictatorships, so different rules apply.
It does seem that way. And its usually liberals damning everyone else while simultaneously handwringing all over MSM about the lack of "civility". WAAAH!
No wonder you're lonely.
I smell a LAWSUIT..........
Wow...we were able to smoke across the street from my high school, as long as it wasn't on school grounds...it was OK. Convienent store morning coffee and a cig...those were the days.
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My gut tells me the girl was probably smoking
Two very, very different statements.
If she was probably smoking, you take her to the woodshed at home, not allow some nazi administrator do it for you. That's called abdicating your parental responsibilities.
"Equal outcome is the desired result: ethnic majority kids should be punished at least as often as ethnic minority kids."
Ayn Rand wrote of this type of dictatorial control: Make so many laws that anyone might be guilty of something. Since no one can know exactly what is legal because of so many laws, there is a pervasive guilt and fear in each person. It becomes safer to rat out a neighbor or family member in order to shield oneself from accusation and prosecution. Every person becomes mutually enslaved to every other person - not just through socialist/communist economics - but through basic social/leagal interaction. This is Slavery, plain and simple. Zero tolerance will be used to brutalize you and your family.
Here is a classic case of zero tolerence. I don't know if the principle is liberal or conservative but he has been influenced by a religious doctrine called liberal fundamentalism.
I use the "smell" test on people all the time.
If they smell like Dimocrats, I immediately leave the area.
And they are all looking at me!
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