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Horse riding teen suspended from school
MyFoxBoston.com ^ | 10-31-10

Posted on 11/01/2010 10:22:01 AM PDT by rawhide

HAMILTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A teen's spirit week stunt has landed him in hot water.

Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School Senior Dan Depaolis, dressed in medieval garb, rode a horse into the school's parking lot as part of spirit week.

What he, and his parents, thought was a good-natured stunt, the school deemed dangerous. Depaolis was suspended from school for two days.

The vice principal allegedly suspended the 17-year-old even after the boy’s father explained that the horse was brought in on a trailer and that no one was in danger.

The father tells FOX25 the school compared the stunt to bringing a “loaded firearm” to school and that he and his wife were shocked to hear about the suspension, saying that the 1100-pound horse, named Pierre, would never hurt a fly.

The school would not comment, saying that they do not talk about any aspect of a student discipline.

The family says they plan to contest the suspension.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: arth; horse; napl; school; teen
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To: al baby

He was wondering if he could have the remainder in the box back...

61 posted on 11/01/2010 11:05:53 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Heh. I saw this story and thought of D-Day riding the bike in the door and up the staircase at Delta House.


62 posted on 11/01/2010 11:06:18 AM PDT by RichInOC (...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87..."Daniel Simpson Day...Has no grade point average.")
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To: CharlesWayneCT
My daughter got suspended a few weeks ago for giving the wrong answer on a hypothetical psych question about “what would you do if you could get away with it and there would be no consequences?”. Apparently the “right” answer was things like “Rob a Bank” or “hijack a snack truck” or “have sex in school”.

I bet their collective heads would have exploded if she had written "There are ALWAYS consequences since God is always watching."

63 posted on 11/01/2010 11:06:46 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Saltmeat
This is another prime example of how difficult it is to get rational decisions from dumb ass school administrators.

School administrators that in their childhood didn't get a pony, didn't get invited to somebody's birthday party, didn't get any Christmas gifts because of their religion, or got picked on for being gay. This is their time to strike back.

64 posted on 11/01/2010 11:07:05 AM PDT by Reeses (Now is the autumn of our discontent.)
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To: rawhide

Maybe he should have placed a Condom on the Horse’s ear and said he was practicing safe horsing.


65 posted on 11/01/2010 11:09:37 AM PDT by PeteB570 (Islam is the sea in which the terrorist shark swims. It aids & comforts the shark on it's journey.)
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To: Frantzie

All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there’s no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost
Somehow don’t seem to matter very much anymore.


66 posted on 11/01/2010 11:11:57 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Am working on plans for a Knights Templar Community Center next to the Kaaba in Mecca.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hamilton. Home of George Patton(father and son). They must be spinning in their graves.......


67 posted on 11/01/2010 11:12:44 AM PDT by GQuagmire (Hey now!)
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To: rawhide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVm-HwAkVp8

world’s greatest baseball slide :o) (above link)


68 posted on 11/01/2010 11:14:29 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: rawhide

How many students are allowed to drive 2,000 pound automobiles in the school parking lot while blasting the stereo and texting? And they say one kid on a horse is dangerous?

Besides, horseback is a legitimate mode of transportation. There’s nothing illegal about riding a horse to school on the shoulder of the public road (unless it’s an interstate).


69 posted on 11/01/2010 11:16:25 AM PDT by bobjam
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Public schools are gulags. While they are out in the parking lot going apoplectic students are in the hallways beating the crap out of each other and poking people with pencils. Most school administrators are frustrated tyrants.


70 posted on 11/01/2010 11:18:05 AM PDT by Jenny217
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To: rawhide

We just had a parade in our town, with many dozens (perhaps even hundreds) of horses. Thousands of spectators, no barriers between the parade and spectators. Must have been very dangerous.


71 posted on 11/01/2010 11:20:33 AM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
There's a ping for that??!!
72 posted on 11/01/2010 11:27:04 AM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: Westbrook

If he put a condom on the horse do you think the School would have been o.k. with it.


73 posted on 11/01/2010 11:27:52 AM PDT by BBell
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To: achilles2000

> Government schools are a fascist gulag.

Agree completely.

That’s why we homeschool our nine children.


74 posted on 11/01/2010 11:30:00 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook

Nine children? A mighty man indeed ;-)


75 posted on 11/01/2010 11:31:43 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Rebelbase; BBell

> if the horse had been wearing a condom there wouldn’t
> have been any issues.

It might have given the school administration pause. After all, if the horse was the young man’s sex partner, that might have made a difference to the typical Massachusetts government school administration.


76 posted on 11/01/2010 11:32:07 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: fredhead
You sure it was a horse he was riding?

Does he look like Matthew Broderick?

77 posted on 11/01/2010 11:33:48 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
My daughter got suspended a few weeks ago for giving the wrong answer on a hypothetical psych question about “what would you do if you could get away with it and there would be no consequences?”. Apparently the “right” answer was things like “Rob a Bank” or “hijack a snack truck” or “have sex in school”.

The “wrong” answer was “Mass Murder”. Even if you are in teh biotech specialty program and the school sent you to the FBI to learn about serial killers and you are studying to be a forensic scientist and solve mass murders.

What if she had answered "smoke a cigarette?"

The principal would be seeking the death penalty.

78 posted on 11/01/2010 11:35:24 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: rawhide
What he, and his parents, thought was a good-natured stunt, the school deemed dangerous. Depaolis was suspended from school for two days.

Two days? That's a slap on the wrist. Serve your two days and return to a hallway full of high-fives you big wuss.
79 posted on 11/01/2010 11:40:27 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: rawhide

Losers.

Here in Philadelphia a kid rides his horse to and from school everyday.


80 posted on 11/01/2010 11:40:44 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Drizzle, drazzle, dradle, drone. It is time for Obama to go home.)
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