Posted on 05/20/2010 1:05:26 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Matthew Whalen's suspension will stand.
On Wednesday night, the Lansingburgh Central School District board of education rejected Whalen's appeal of the punishment and decided not to expunge the blemish on the record of the Eagle Scout suspended for having a pocketknife in his car while the vehicle was on the grounds of Lansingburgh High School. Whalen received a 20-day suspension in September after he turned over to school administrators a 1 1/2-inch knife that he kept in his glove box as part of a car survival kit. He returned to school in October.
Whalen has said he does not know how school officials learned he had a pocketknife in his car, but suspects another student may have tipped off administrators in an attempt to pull a prank on him.
School officials, who did not respond to requests for comment, have said Whalen violated the school district's zero-tolerance policy because he brought a weapon on to school grounds and that the suspension was an appropriate response. The case raised national furor when Whalen went on two separate national Fox News programs to discuss the penalty. He worried that the action could hurt his chances of getting into West Point.
He said he never realized the school considered the keychain knife a weapon. He said his grandfather Robert Whalen -- who recently retired as police chief of the Hoosic Falls Police Department -- gave him the folding knife to use in his car after they used it to cut wires while installing a car radio.
Whalen was given a Lifesaving Heroism Award by the Boy Scouts of America at age 13 after he performed CPR on his aunt, saving her life. He said he carries water bottles, a sleeping bag and a change of clothes in his 1999 Mercury Sable in case it breaks down. He considered the key-chain knife part of that preparedness kit.
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That school has sure messed with the wrong fella.
It isn't just the schools. Most leadership positions in our Nation are staffed by drooling idiots.
In a foreign language?
Why, that would be grounds for promotion. Diversity and all that cr*p.
“No, a “District board” didn’t do anything. People did...”
100% correct. There is no such thing as “the administration, the Justice Department, the caucus, Homeland Security, the party...” there are PEOPLE doing these things not buildings or inanimate objects. From the evil people in this administration to the “Party officials” who would decree a Scozzafava, this is just a technique of deceit used by the corrupt and subversive to hide. It is depressing to know the shadows are filled to overflowing with these kind of people and it is harder than hell to find and remove such cockroaches because of this technique.
And the principal and asst principal were the most likely people to want to admire said rifle or shotgun. Lots of times they would go to their own truck and let the student admire the rifle that they had. In our little West Texas town, most of the guys rarely even locked their pickups.
Your insight says it all.
Good advice.
A knife is indeed a tool.
Thanks.
Wellllll..... maybe not.
I don’t think the students could afford that one.
A large screwdriver would be far more dangerous as a weapon but they probably wouldn’t object to that. He could have a tire tool in the trunk and that would be okay too even though tire tools used to be a favorite weapon of the really bad boys.
Zero tolerance = Zero intelligence
The decision of the Lansingburgh Central School District board of education, including Mary Sweeney, Susan Farrell, P.J. Higgitt, Karlene Gamble, Edward McDonough, Jason Shover, and Kelley Bristol, has defined its members as having the competency and ethical standards of human excrement.
It seems to me that there is no need for “administrators” or “school officials” with a “zero-tolerance” policy. A thin little policy manual administered by the janitorial staff should relieve all that staff overburden.
Who needs weapons when you can just put them in the freezer, anyway?
I remember those days, also. You could also get on an airplane without going through police state procedures such as showing proper papers, search of person and possessions, and interrogation.
ML/NJ
You've just neatly defined the raison d'etre of compulsory government schooling. Have a Guinness!
Isn’t the car itself far, far more lethal than a pocketknife when used as a weapon?
Yuri Besmenov warned us. Our nation is now utterly and completely “demoralized”! Next step: Destabilization!
Yet...Conservatives consistently fail to have a rational plan to RE-moralize the nation!
Hint: That RE-moralization plan better include shutting down every government K-12 school in the nation. That plan better include getting every child into a conservative private school!
Unless we raise up generations of citizens who can defend their faith and our nation's founding principles our nation is lost! We are facing a centuries long Dark Age. YES! It is that serious!
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