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Honor student suspended for 'noogie'
New York Daily News ^

Posted on 06/21/2008 6:11:38 PM PDT by WilliamReading

The youth and his lawyer Edward Paltzik say the charges are trumped up.

In fact, Paltzik insists that teacher Sharon Cantante, like Gilda Radner's Lisa Loopner on the old "Saturday Night Live" skit, didn't mind getting a few noogies from the boys.

"She had this very bizarre tendency to invite students to give her noogies," Paltzik claimed. "This teacher has a history of encouraging noogie behavior."

The teen is taking his case to the state Appellate Division. The Mirenberg camp showed a photo of the eighth-grade teacher smiling broadly while absorbing a male student's noogie.

The 39-year-old divorcee seems completely at ease while getting the knuckle rub.


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KEYWORDS: discipline; education; publikskoolz; zerotolerance
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1 posted on 06/21/2008 6:11:39 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: WilliamReading

So who complained? And if it wasn’t the teacher, then why wasn’t the teacher suspended?


2 posted on 06/21/2008 6:16:07 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

The student gave his teacher two “noogies”, and was suspended for 10 months from school. He is taking it to court as a matter of “fairness”. Are two knuckle rubs worth 10 months suspension?

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=116943


3 posted on 06/21/2008 6:21:06 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: WilliamReading

... uh, what’s a “noogie?”


4 posted on 06/21/2008 6:27:28 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: Ken522

Placing a person in a headlock with one arm, then using the other to make a fist (with the middle finger’s knuckle sticking up a bit), and then rubbing the knuckle back and forth several times firmly across the top of the persons head.


5 posted on 06/21/2008 6:35:25 PM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: icwhatudo

What would be a just punishment for this?


6 posted on 06/21/2008 6:36:32 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: WilliamReading

A noogie is a form of humiliation. Watch the video. This kid is as guilty as sin. He claims it was just a pat on the head and his lawyer says the teacher asked for it.


7 posted on 06/21/2008 6:37:30 PM PDT by Krankor (N)
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To: WilliamReading

Forcing the perpetrator’s face into one’s armpit and making farting noises in rapid succession.


8 posted on 06/21/2008 6:38:11 PM PDT by mkjessup (Obama-flakes! = Little suntanned Jimmy Carters with twice the empty rhetoric , from DNC cereals!)
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To: Ken522

When hubby plays with the gk’s, he puts his arm around their neck, bends the crown of their head toward him, then takes his knuckles and rubs briskly back and forth real fast.


9 posted on 06/21/2008 6:38:12 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: WilliamReading
She's guilty:


10 posted on 06/21/2008 6:41:11 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (The road to hell is paved with the stones of pragmatism.)
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To: Krankor
A noogie is a form of humiliation.

You're out of your gourd if that's what you think.

11 posted on 06/21/2008 6:46:06 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: Ken522

We used to call them A Dutch Rub!


12 posted on 06/21/2008 6:47:19 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: Ken522
... uh, what’s a “noogie?”

It's like a swatzee, except on top of the head instead of the nape of the neck.

13 posted on 06/21/2008 7:11:01 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: processing please hold

When a dad does it to his kid, that’s one thing, and maybe between you and you’re male friends it’s considered a sign of affection. If that’s what you’re in to...well...good for you. When I saw it in high school, it was done by stronger kids to weaker kids as a a form of humiliation.


14 posted on 06/21/2008 7:15:48 PM PDT by Krankor (N)
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To: WilliamReading

Is a Noogie like a Wedgee,?


15 posted on 06/21/2008 7:16:39 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (Old Dogs and Children,and Watermelon Wine.)
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To: Krankor
and maybe between you and you’re male friends it’s considered a sign of affection.

fwiw, I'm a she.

When I saw it in high school, it was done by stronger kids to weaker kids as a a form of humiliation.

I didn't see that in school, but I also rode dinosaurs to school. Different, friendlier era I guess.

16 posted on 06/21/2008 7:23:55 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: silentreignofheroes
Noogie on the head, wedgee on in the butt.
17 posted on 06/21/2008 7:25:09 PM PDT by processing please hold ( A gov. big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have)
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To: processing please hold; Krankor
A noogie is a form of humiliation.

You're out of your gourd if that's what you think.

There are probably lots of sadists who give "noogies" for exactly that reason.

Come to think of it, doesn't everyone who gives noogies have to be a little sadistic?

18 posted on 06/21/2008 7:26:11 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: processing please hold

OK,sometimes I want to much info...;.....


19 posted on 06/21/2008 7:27:26 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (Old Dogs and Children,and Watermelon Wine.)
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To: mkjessup
Forcing the perpetrator’s face into one’s armpit and making farting noises in rapid succession.

You wish!

20 posted on 06/21/2008 7:30:30 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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