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Eagle Scout's penalty stands
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| 5-20-10
| SCOTT WALDMAN
Posted on 05/20/2010 1:05:26 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Update to Noverber 20, 2009 story. This decision is sheer idiocy.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Aren’t most of our schools today?
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:07:44 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: afraidfortherepublic
Liberalism and common sense do not and can not coexist.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:07:50 PM PDT
by
RWGinger
To: afraidfortherepublic
Was his crime having the knife or being an Eagle Scout?
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:07:50 PM PDT
by
Spok
(Free Range Republican)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I feel so much safer knowing this Eagle Scout’s 1-1/2” knife is not on school grounds.
What a bunch of buffoons running that school system.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:08:30 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
To: afraidfortherepublic
ALLES IN ORDNUNG ! ! !
SIEG HEIL ! ! !
AGENDA UBER ALLES ! ! !
OK, I’ll stop channeling an educrat.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:08:43 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: afraidfortherepublic
The purpose of Zero-Tolerance is to pretend that a kid like this is the same as a gang-banger.
Equal-outcome is the name of the game.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:08:50 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Spok
Was his crime having the knife or being an Eagle Scout? Yes.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:08:59 PM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
In my day, any kid fortunate enough to have a pick-up, also had a gun rack with at least one gun in it and they parked right on the school parking lot.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:09:57 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:10:05 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Political Correctness Kills)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Typical brain-dead, one-size-fits-all thinking that pervades our public schools. School administrators are not allowed to use their independent judgment.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:10:41 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: afraidfortherepublic
This is still America right? It’s so hard to tell these days.
To: afraidfortherepublic
the Lansingburgh Central School District board of education rejected Whalen's appeal of the punishment No, a "District board" didn't do anything. People did. Who are they? What are their names? What is their reasoning, or lack thereof? I guess a news article by a group with "Union" in their name isn't really interested in details.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:13:43 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: afraidfortherepublic
What country did this occur in ? New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois or Maryland?
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:14:04 PM PDT
by
ZULU
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Over the years I've been called upon to render life saving assistance to people in serious distress ~ drowning, trapped by debris under water, burning in a fire, choking on cafeteria food, etc. Even stopped one morning to render assistance to a state trooper who'd gotten smashed by a bus (thankfully a Fairfax cop pulled up and I got to leave ~ nothing to do anyway).
The probability is good that this will happen in the future. Because of this particular instance I will change my approach. First, the ID. If they are associated with a school board, public school, or any funding organization for such institutions, they are ON THEIR OWN.
Too much risk in getting sued to help those people.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:14:43 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: fish hawk
If it happened in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Illinois or Massachusetts - no.
It didn’t happen in America. You can relax.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:15:29 PM PDT
by
ZULU
To: afraidfortherepublic
He said he never realized the school considered the keychain knife a weapon. Heck, the school probably considers drawing a mere picture of a knife to be grounds for expulsion.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:15:38 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: afraidfortherepublic
If West Point rejects this kid because of an inch and a half pocket knife, then they are just as big a set of moonbats as the kid’s high school officials. The Eagle Scout is better off without West Point if they reject him because of something so trivial. I’m hoping they have more sense than that at The Point, but then again, look at how the Army handled the Fort Hood shooting.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:17:18 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(I'm voting for Sarah Palin because she pisses off the right people.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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I have that keychain knife, and the school administrators are idiots to think of it as a weapon. In a real fight, I'd rather face someone with that little toy in his hands than someone using his fists.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:17:33 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: Tallguy
We need to ban pencils and pens in skool, those can be weapons as well. Students should only use jumbo crayons.
Just your kakistocracy at work.
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posted on
05/20/2010 1:17:50 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(From this point forward the Democrat Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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