School 'officials' are dumber than the students. This is patently ridiculous!
Two words to the school officials: Molon Labe.
“It just seems unfair,” Zachary said, pausing as he practiced writing lower-case letters with his mother, who is home-schooling him while the family tries to overturn his punishment.”
Why doesn’t she just homeschool him all the time???
I went to the website and signed the petition and wrote an email to Zach and cc’d it to the school officials and board members listed.
There is a survey about Zero Tolerance policies, and I did not like the available answer set of the last question — I am against a Federal law banning them because the Federal government has no legitimate authority in re education under the federal government’s charter to us. But I am against ALL zero tolerance, and that includes mandatory sentences and mandatory co-charges.
..Zachary wears sometimes wears a suit and tie...
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The REAL reason Zachary is gone.
Can’t have him showing up all the other yutes.
Bet he washes every day and does his homework and calls the teachers Mrs/Miss/Ma’am or whatever is appropriate.
Can’t have any of that manners and culture rub off on anybody.
(Some) Teachers probably don’t know what to think of it either.
So, no more pencils, pens, combs, shoe laces, belts, scarfs, balls, or bats. The Admin. needs to police the campus every day for rocks, sticks, etc. before school starts. All school supplies should be inventoried daily to assure no one has pilfered something to be used as a weapon. In the classroom, there can be no rulers, books, plastic bags, purses, or anything else that a “reasonable” person might consider a weapon, which is any hard or sharp object.
All persons entering the school must submit to a full body search including a body cavity search. Everyone will remove & exchange their clothing for prison style garb & flip-flops.
You want zero tolerance? You got it!
Given the current propensity of teachers & school staff to molest students, zero tolerance will apply to school staff as well as students. Any staff member who violates zero tolerance will be immediately fired. Staff can expect their personal property & car to be searched daily. After all, an adult with a jar of paste is far more dangerous than a 6 year old. Staff should be prohibited from bringing ANY type of meds to school, such as aspirin, Rolaids, etc. Searches will be done daily. Zero tolerance MEANS ZERO TOLERANCE!
If parents would INSIST that zero tolerance be applied to EVERYONE & EVERYTHING at school, this BS would stop pronto!
Then we can return to the good old system of favoritism for athletes & ass kissers, & perhaps INTENT can again be considered in finding guilt.
On wonders how much trouble he would have been in had he made a comment about eating a Brownie.
The Superintendent:
http://www.christina.k12.de.us/Superintendent/index.htm
From the NYT article:
“Education experts say that zero-tolerance policies initially allowed authorities more leeway in punishing students, but were applied in a discriminatory fashion. Many studies indicate that African-Americans were several times more likely to be suspended or expelled than other students for the same offenses.”
Conclusion: The scout got busted to make a quota.