Once upon a time, a little bird gave me a business card with the following:
IF YOU ARE ARRESTED OR CONFRONTED BY THE POLICE:
1. FIRST, ask to call your lawyer.
2. Be courteous; do not resist.
3. Do not consent to search or entry.
4. Do not talk about anything; do not admit OR DENY anything.
5. Ask if you are free to go. If you are, GO.
I keep this business card right behind my drivers license in my wallet. This is coming from a guy who, for the spectrum of folks on this board, would be considered a strong LEO-supporter.
I’d encourage Matthew not to take this too personally. The actions of the school administrators say much more about them and their mindless bureaucracy than it does about him.
They are disarming America too!
Now you all pick up your baseball bats and go play outside."
Be certain your godson applies to WPoint as he planned, and states clearly what occurred. I suspect that the admissions board will see this as a positive instead of a negative incident.
Just when you think public schools couldn’t be more absurd, they outdo themselves.
I actually teach at West Point. I forwarded the article to my boss who has friends at admissions. He is going to try to make them aware of the issue and hopefully this incident can be put in context and waivered if necessary. They will still have to make their own determination of course.
These school officals are complete idiots.
Ridiculous...
...and why would the school go into the young mans car without cause? Do they have that much time on their hands? This one size fits all mentality is why I detest the Feds and their useful dupes meddling in my life.
This stretches ANY reasonable sanity about a “zero tolerance” policy in schools and is plainly another absurd example of government (federal, state or local) control getting out of hand.
They allow pencils and pens at school, and I know for a fact they can be used as weapons. I’ve seen it done, and even done it myself. Seen a desk used as a weapon, too, for that matter.
Zero Tolerance policy = Don’t need to use a brain policy.
Here it is.
http://www.lansingburgh.org/lhs/index.php
FReepers, let's keep it polite, but let these folks know the whole country is watching them.
WRM, MSgt, USAF
Your godson has a great future ahead of him. Don’t let this one example of bureaucratic idiocy stand in his way. Just put it behind and tell him to keep doing what he’s doing.
Interesting. I used to trade ammunition with a son of a school committee member, and one of the teachers (a liberal ...very liberal actually...but a Vietnam Cav Veteran) knew of it and thought nothing of it. I’d be interested to know the military backgrounds of the school committee and administrators involved. It almost seems as if the kid were targeted, the way the story is written.
anything “that reasonably can be considered a weapon.”
Absurd criteria....what about: tire irons, baseball bats, screwdrivers, hammers?
Where does this stupidity end?
169 posts, not one replied to by you, RR. Where are ya?
It is obvious to me more and more every day that this is not the planet that I was born on.
Or maybe it is the same planet, but at some point, at least half the people were replaced by duplicates that look human, but are completely bereft of any ordinary human capacity for reason and judgment. That’s the only way to explain this idiotic “zero tolerance” nonsense.
Unfortunately, it appears that the half of the population that are bereft of reason and judgment are all educators or politicians.
I hope they sue the crap out of the school district.
Give him a hug from me.
Mom of two Eagle Scouts...
did you see this?
Next school board meeting ask em all if they have a tire iron or lug wrench in their trunk an then demand they resign for violating their own zero tolerance policy. .
As a former Deputy Sheriff I would shoot the attacker with a tire iron just as I would an attacker with a knife
Ask them where the insanity stops. Tire iron is not an acceptable answer.
Sorry for yer troubles. Respect to Matthew for all his efforts to excel.