Posted on 12/02/2008 8:35:18 AM PST by prismsinc
A student at Spectrum Junior-Senior High School was arrested earlier this month after he passed gas and turned off his classmate’s computers...
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Genius. Now, we'd get tasered for it. :-)
I gotta try that when I get home...it hasn't worked at all for me in the past, no matter how hard I tried.
somewhere, there's a freeper testing your hypothesis right now. :-)
“Did you read the article?”
Yep ... nothing the student did rose to a level of arrest IMO. “Disruption of a school function” ? Come on ... these people running the school need to get over themselves, and start handling the problem without benefit of handcuffs.
It was the "school resource officer" that "placed the boy under arrest" until his mother arrived, which means the school official kept the boy in the principal's office until the mother arrived. The kid wasn't taken down to police headquarters and fingerprinted and booked on charges.
WTF?!
"He confessed."
Must have been those "silent" types.
Deadly.
"Charged with disruption of school function."
Gee, under a "three strikes" law, I'd have received a life sentence.
I guess teachers’ farts don’t stink.
If your kid is one of the students trying to do his work in class when some unruly brat is disrupting the class, turning off your kid's computer, and preventing any learning from occurring, you would probably want the kid taken out of the classroom and sent to the principal's office too. From the description of the "school resource officer placing the student under arrest until his mother arrived to pick him up", the "arrest" amounts to taking the brat to the office and making him stay there until his mother came to get him.
Thank you for your service as an educator and not looking the other way when these young criminals test the limits of society.
I wonder if he’ll also be expelled for, er . . . expelling.
“If your kid is one of the students trying to do his work in class when some unruly brat is disrupting the class, turning off your kid’s computer, and preventing any learning from occurring, you would probably want the kid taken out of the classroom and sent to the principal’s office too.”
I have no objection to the school handling the situation with suspension, or other punishment ... but to cause a 13 year old to have a criminal record for a fart and a prank that hurt no one is the state running amok.
There are ways to handle this bad behavior, and tossing this kid’s butt out of school would be a good move. Arresting him is pathetic.
It sounds like your concept of arrest doesn't match up with the description from the story. "Arrest" doesn't mean taken to the local jail. If the kid is taken to the principal's office and held there until his mother arrives to pick him up, he is "under arrest".
Looks like I directed my reply to you by mistake. It should have been directed to another comment.
It sounds like your concept of arrest doesn't match up with the description from the story. "Arrest" doesn't mean taken to the local jail. If the kid is taken to the principal's office and held there until his mother arrives to pick him up, he is "under arrest".
taking the brat to the office for class to give a$$ spanking
Is the "school resource officer" a law enforcement official working at the school?
If so I figure we are far far down the slippery slope.
I would have been more concerned if his passing gas was the proximate cause of the computers turning off.
now that wuld be creepy
The problem is that the school policies nowadays give teachers no way to enforce discipline short of calling the police.
Yeah, disorderly conduct is the 'catchall' crime. /sarc
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