Posted on 03/19/2018 4:06:14 AM PDT by servo1969
A New Jersey high school came under fire Friday after it allegedly suspended two students over a gun photo taken during a family visit to a shooting range.
News of the unnamed students' suspension circulated through a Lacey Township Facebook group, according to NJ.com.
Amanda Buron, a Lacey resident and family friend of one of the suspended students said one of the photos shared on SnapChat featured four rifles, ammunition clips and a gun duffel with the caption "fun day at the range," NJ.com reported.
Buron said the two students received a five-day in-school suspension after the picture drew the attention of Lacey Township High School officials, who argued that it violated the school’s policy on weapons possession.
The school district shortly faced community backlash for the alleged suspension, with many calling for people to appear at the school board's next meeting on Monday to protest the decision.
The school, however, denied the students were suspended over the picture.
"Information posted on social media is incorrect,” Lacey schools Superintendent Craig Wigley told the publication last week. The officials declined to provide any additional details or point out what exactly was false.
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No we just removed somebody where I live by recall petition.
If you work in private industry, you have made a contract with your employer to follow the company rules.
That is different than your constitutional rights, which this student has re his outside of the school activities if they don’t directly relate to the school-safety, slander of, false accusations against, and prohibited behavior that is either disruptive or dangerous.
A teacher cannot hit a student. That’s a crime. A teacher cannot have illegal sexual activity, if at all, with a student (age is occasionally an issue). The same for religious or racial or ethnic discrimination (Federal law).
Just because these are “government schools”, it does not necessarily mean that THEIR RULES are legal re local, state or Federal law.
Another poster said that courts are reluctant to get into this issue but that has been changing over the past 20 years or so. Just because they are “reluctant” to address a legal issue doesn’t mean that the “issue” isn’t a constitutional right that covers students. It is a very fluid situation and I predict that it will change even more in the near future because of pending cases, mainly from conservative parents/law groups against a growing leftist/neo-Marxist authoritarian trend in how schools are run.
Lots of us cannot afford to put our children into private schools (when my kids were your). If you can, fine. However, how about giving me about $30,000 a year to put my step-grandchild into a private school for children with visual handicaps? His parents are having a difficult time right now and cannot afford it either.
When can I expect your gracious check?
The superintendent is hired, not elected. And, once he gets hired, it takes dynamite to get him out. The superintendent is the dangerous one. School board members are usually well-meaning but ignorant of how things work. That's why they usually vote with and back any decisions by the superintendent. The superintendent is really the one who runs the district.
Tell me on how that is supposed to work!s\
https://www.change.org/p/school-committee-remove-dr-pope-as-superintendent-of-marlborough-schools
https://www.communityadvocate.com/2012/06/27/updated-pope-to-leave-marlborough-school-superintendent-post/
I don't know what state you are in, but it wouldn't work this way in mine. The superintendent is hired with a contract, usually very beneficial to him. The only times I have seen a superintendent removed turned out to be insanely costly to the district, as they had to buy out his contract, and give him a ton of extra money and incentives. What I have successfully seen is the superintendent assigned duties that he doesn't want to do which will force him to leave. But, that was in the old days, and superintendents these days have become wise to that tactic, and word their contracts to keep that from happening.
You're not talking to another swivel-chair computer piker here. I've been a student/parent advocate since the early 1990's, and taken on MANY school districts. No matter how nasty it got, the superintendent was always the last man standing after teachers and other administrators were given the boot, and the district paid out big bucks in damages. Anytime a Texas superintendent comes under fire, the Texas Association of School Administrators steps in with their army of lawyers, and their only objective will be to protect the superintendents job for as long as he wants to stay. And, they are VERY politically connected and VERY powerful.
The people seem more then willing to give their parental rights over to the schools (government) when their babies are only three and four years old in order to rid themselves of the responsibility of rearing there own children... I'm tempted to say, they get what they deserve... But nobody deserves to have their kids taken away from them... Well, maybe some do........
I have seen them turned out by direct petition like this goofball was. Or I have seen it come the other way by driving out a school board member then firing the superintendent. What a shame it is for you folks having such a hard time to remove a bad public servant.
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