Posted on 10/16/2009 10:56:47 AM PDT by broken_arrow1
Call him Mr. Zero Tolerance.
The upstate New York school superintendent who suspended an Eagle Scout for 20 days for keeping a 2-inch utility knife locked in his car is unwilling to speak to the teen's family or bend in his ruling.
Lansingburgh Central School District Superintendent George J. Goodwin, 55, said in a written statement that his district "has an established policy of zero tolerance with respect to the possession of weapons of any kind on school property or in school buildings."
But nowhere in the school district's rule book, which is published online, is there any mention of a "zero tolerance" policy, leading some to question whether Goodwin, in fact, was compelled to suspend the youth.
Seventeen-year-old Matthew Whalen, a senior at Lansingburgh High School in Troy, N.Y., says he got in trouble over a survival kit he keeps in his car that includes a sleeping bag, water, a ready-to-eat meal and the small pocketknife, which was given to him by his grandfather, a police chief in a nearby town.
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Post-Columbine zero tolerance is like gun control. Yes, it makes perfect sense to a Libtard that a rule threatening suspension would have stopped the Columbine massacre. It didn’t do such a great job of stopping the carnage at Virginia Tech. Maybe if there was an Eagle Scout with a 2-inch blade in his pocket, the perpetrator Seung-Hui Cho, could have been stopped from killing 32 people and wounded many others.
Stupid is as stupid does!
I don’t think the monkey would have to be trained to perform as well.
Well put. Good points about the effort that should be undertaken when you have kids in public schools.
RE#113:
Well said. Good Points. The irony of your being a teacher was not missed by this reader.
“My claim was that conservatives in general will be outnumbered at the ballot box 3-to-1, not in the public schools. And that includes your homeschooled kid. The difference is my kids will have experience countering the liberal mindset.”
I did read your post; try reading mine. And I find it rather insulting that you think the only way to “counter the liberal mindset” is to expose oneself or one’s child to it for twelve years. If I have anything to say about it, my (future) kids will get plenty of such experience without drinking in the poison that is public education.
Why don’t you go back to my original post? I said “if I had it to do over ... I would homeschool.” As it is, my kids went thru public school.
I was the most visible front and center person for one high school, one middle school and 6 elementary schools, representing thousands of families, before the school board and our local governing board. I served on the Superintendent’s Advisory Council and countless other boards/committees, etc. in one of the largest public school districts in the country. I don’t have enough time or interest to recount all the changes I effected in our schools, often at enormous personal sacrifice.
So big whoop dee doo that you got your 3rd grade program changed. I am really, really impressed.
A knife is a utensil, not a weapon.
...suspended an Eagle Scout for 20 days for keeping a 2-inch utility knife locked in his car is unwilling to speak to the teen's family or bend in his ruling. Lansingburgh Central School District Superintendent George J. Goodwin, 55, said in a written statement that his district "has an established policy of zero tolerance with respect to the possession of weapons of any kind on school property or in school buildings." But nowhere in the school district's rule book, which is published online, is there any mention of a "zero tolerance" policy...The school needs a zero tolerance policy against goofy liars holding positions of authority.
Yup, he likes his fudge.
Yup, hateful Commie power trip alert.
I’m willing to take bullets but not to use my kid as a human shield. Homeschooling is not cowering in fear; it is stepping up to the plate and facing the question of “what is the best way to raise and educate my kid” face on.
I'd pay to see YouTube of Grandpa teaching the petty dictator a few lessons in "That's not a weapon, this is a weapon."
We must get out of the mindset, endemic since WW2, that the magic formula for success in any endeavour is to sacrifice our rationality to the Gods of Total War.
This nightmare will not end until we have zero tolerance for Zero Tolerance.
I totally agree with your perspective, sthguard. The Dept. of Education is one of the biggest bureaucratic jokes in existence. No matter how much money is thrown at it and the “education” it supposedly fosters, the schools are just absolute concrete jungles that are falling apart. Nothing but little petri dishes full of malleable kids who have to endure the Left’s latest social theories and experiments. I hate to use the word, but so many of them are simply hellholes. If you like the looks of government schools, then you’ll LOVE Obama’s healthcare takeover. Instead of books, supplies, and resources being rationed as they are now, it will be medical care.
Zero Tolerance policies are just an excuse not to have to think. The people who create and enforce them are beyond the pale.
And, you know, if we keep on the track we’re on now it won’t belong before there are gov’t Zero Tolerance policies for fast food, fast cars and fast women.
No, they are meant to create unthinking obedience to authority. It is all about control.
Bozos like this are a walking advertisement for vouchers. If his pay was on the line he might learn to be a little flexible.
Thanks for your support— if only certain public school apologists would see reason as easily!
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