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.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/story.asp?StoryID=868106#ixzz0oVBJ25GX
Yes it is.
Evil in USA
Beautiful and profound IMHO.
Thanks
FMCDH(BITS)
Click on the keyword “zerotolerance” and you’ll get hundreds, if not thousands of similar stories from all parts of the country.
To be a teacher or administrator in just about any public school, one must have education beyond a four-year college degree. With so much education, why are so many teachers and administrators so lacking in common sense?
INSANITY...
Zero tolerance is just an excuse for not thinking. Liberals cannot make moral judgments so every misdemeanor is a felony and every felony a misdemeanor.
Yuri Besmenov warned us. It is called “demoralization”!
The Marxists have so thoroughly infested education ( and every other area of our culture) that our citizens can no longer think rationally even when the facts are in front of them.
Next step: Destabilization!
TRUE But how many of us would think like that.
Fine, whatever.
Then... the cop found my "stash"... of sport boomerangs. He asked me if I knew how to use them, and when I answered that I did, he said (and I am NOT MAKING THIS UP), "Well since you know how to use these, they could be considered weapons that you could use against an Officer of the Law. You should keep these in your trunk as well."
I have very little tolerance for cops now. Actually, make that ZERO TOLERANCE.
Scout Ping
Stupid, one and all! 1 1/2 inch? Not a lick of sense among the whole bunch!
Or, freeze them with a putter...
I think we took all the golf clubs to The Salvation Army before the last move.
And if you happen to draw a picture of an American flag AND a knife, then you’d end up in youth detention and be labeled a criminal. Values are SO topsy-turvy these days!
Yes, they’re straining at gnats while swallowing camels. The REAL damage done in the classroom— freewheeling sex ed, politicized curriculum, expunging of God and related symbols, bullying feral kids raised by idiot parents—is gleefully accepted. But if a limp-wristed bureaucrat can kill two all-American symbols with one stone, e.g., an Eagle Scout AND a pointed object, then by all means, they can’t allow THAT in their precious school.
West Point will issue him a sword.
Being an Eagle Scout means you have character and are an overachiever, both of which are a big no - no in today’s academia. When I made Eagle 40 years ago, my town almost had a parade. How times have changed.
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