Nobody was tased. Calm down.
What if this girl created a facebook page to discuss whether your 12 year old had herpes? What then? You gonna fight that girl?
What if your girl created a facebook page to discuss whether this 12 year old had herpes? What then? You gonna fight your girl?
The whole problem is everybody has rights and guards them fiercely. This is OK, but all too frequently takes the form “My rights, whaaaa! I want my rights!”
Unfortunately, all too common is “Responsibilities? We don’t need no stinkin’ responsibilities.”
Everyone has rights, everyone ELSE has responsibilities.
Now of course, I’m sure your girl wouldn’t do such a thing.
But, if we ask the other parents, niether will their kid. Nobody’s kid will.
Still, it happens.
Now, don’t tase, me, bro. This is not meant to be an indictment of you, it’s an indictment of society.
Myself? I think the principal should be able to paddle kids that do this kind of crap. But then I was raised when principals could have paddled kids for this kind of crap and my parents would have approved of it.
I think that way was better.
Paddling is ok in my book also, but using the police to violate your 4th amendment rights is wrong. Get a warrant first.
BTW: this would not happen on my watch anyway; I am a major supporter of homeschooling and my usual reply to threads such as this is two words "Home school"
Tasers kill people. It is deadly force. I respond to deadly force with appropriate measures.
As far as paddling goes, my attitude was this when I was in "publik skul" and it's one I still share 15-20 years later. I'm not bending over for anyone, especially a flippin' bureaucrat. If you are going to whack me, we're going to handle this like men. I may win, I may lose, but they're going to earn it. Now they didn't have that policy so it wasn't an issue.
I was in the office a few times and had my share of trouble there and sometimes at home depending on whose fault it was. I don't regret it, and a big part of the reason I'm a republican today is because of bureaucrats like the type seen at public schools and their Bill Clinton type of overlords. They are democrats. I didn't respect authority. I respect it even less today with tyrants like Obama and Holder (and Reno and Clinton before that).
Just as children need limits (and 12 year olds don't belong on facebook) and good guidance from parents, so do bureaucrats, especially school officials. They need limits to their power from parents as well.
What was this girls crime to allow the nanny state to punish her. Have you read the article or are you a natural goose stepper?