[mark502inf]

Its one week suspension for carwheels, two weeks for playing dodgeball, and the whole semester for reading the Bible.

[holymoly]

Anal-retentive morons who won't let kids be kids alert.

[Angry Enough]

Home school,home school, home school!

[gaijin]

Good thing she didn't have a nail-clipper keychain! This one sounds like a real loose cannon!

[gaijin]

Pattycake = dangerous slapping ritual?

[bannie]

Aw, comeon y'all...you know that if the girl fell, we'd be paying her parents $$$$$MMMMM.

[xJones]

eirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime.

This isn't clear. Was the girl doing backflips between lunchroom tables? She was performing during lunch instead of eating?

[Peace will be here soon]

"Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime."

Hopefully not on the lunch tables !! Nowadays, you never know.

[GnuHere]

Good gravy. As someone who could never do a cartwheel, I can see that this would damage other children's self-esteem, therefore it should be forbidden. Just like a good debater should not be allowed to speak during free class time 'cause that also is an unfair advantage.

PC crap like this will be the ruination of us all...

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime."

That's why she was suspended. Maybe folks around here will cry foul but she was apparently told to stop "repeatedly". It doesn't seem like an unreasonable request. Actions have consequences. Perhaps the punishment is too harsh, perhaps not. Then there's the father's response, "Deirdre's father, Leland Faegre, said it was absurd to suspend his daughter for doing gymnastics when students were allowed to play basketball and other sports. "Contact sports, apparently, are fine. But this one is so dangerous it requires the cartwheel cops," Faegre said."

Now I don't know about you folks but my father would have taken me to the wood shed for doing something that I was told "repeatedly" not to do in school. But hey I just a hick from Texas. The father's argument misses the point completely.

[CindyDawg]

The concerns could have be discussed between her and her parents and the staff.. The problem I see is disobedience. She was told to stop and continued.

[Rhetorical pi2]

We must make an example of Diedre. You will note that she is performing "individual" activities.

This must be stopped!

Children cannot be allowed to develop individual skills! They must blend in with the masses, and march lockstep with everyone else in class.

If you allow a child to turn cartwheels alone, next thing you know she will be thinking individual thoughts - on her own - and that is verboten!!

[TChris]

Oh for Pete's sake. Are there any sane voters left in the People's Republic of Kalifornia? How do brainless, reactionary doofs like this get jobs at schools? ...then again, if I got my a$$ sued every time I sneezed, I might become a bit reactionary myself.

[GeronL]

told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime

LOL.

[mlocher]

"Contact sports, apparently, are fine. But this one is so dangerous it requires the cartwheel cops," Faegre said.

LOL!!!...maybe kids should eat lunch and then go right to their straight jackets.(smile)

[TChris]

This is just the latest incarnation of the "everyone must be equal" insanity. A girl has abilities above those of her peers, therefore she must be brought back in line. This is pure socialist engineering with a very bad excuse stapled on top.

[Uncle Miltie]

Are they all wearing their protective rubber suits?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It has nothing to do with "safety". It has everything to do with dominating the children and breaking their spirit.

[claudiustg]

And San Jose-Edison Academy Principal Denise Patton is this weeks winner of the Remarkably Anal-retentive and Shortsighted Award.

[RebelBanker]

OK, did anyone else read that she was suspended for repeatedly disobeying school officials? Without all the facts, I can not say whether or not the girl's gymnastics were inappropriate, but someone in authority at the school obviously thought they were. Therefore, she was told to stop. When she did not, she was punished.

Maybe it's just me, but I thought you were supposed to do gymnastics or whatever during phys ed and eat during lunch time.

[TADSLOS]

Some kids are just built that way.