Reinstated Student Still Not In School - (zero tolerance idiocy strikes again)

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[chance33_98]

Reinstated Student Still Not In School
Attorney Appealing Decision To School Board
Posted: 10:21 a.m. CDT September 5, 2002
Updated: 11:41 a.m. CDT September 6, 2002

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. -- A high school wrestler was suspended from the sport and forced into alternative school because two pocket knives were found in the car he was driving.

David Mahan, 18, who wanted to attend college on a wrestling scholarship, has to leave Midwest City High School for one semester, school officials said. The teenager kept good grades and had no previous suspensions.

A school security guard found the folding knives Aug. 21 while searching his mother's vehicle, which Mahan had driven to school.

The school initially suspended the teen. But officials lifted the suspension this week on several conditions, including that he spend the rest of the first semester at West Side School.

Rick Bachman, director of secondary education, ordered Mahan to receive counseling and avoid setting foot on Midwest City High School grounds without approval from the principal.

Mahan also was banned from extracurricular activities, including wrestling.

Mahan's attorney, Mike Gassaway, said the student left the knives in a side pocket of his mother's car after working on the stereo system.

Bachman said that excuse is not a "creditable defense."

Mahan did not return to class Thursday, and Gassaway said he plans to request an open hearing with the school board Monday night.

The attorney said he will argue that there is nothing in the school's handbook that directs school officials to banish his client to the alternative campus.

School district spokesman Josh O'Brien said school officials are standing by their decision.

[chance33_98]

A school security guard found the folding knives Aug. 21 while searching his mother's vehicle, which Mahan had driven to school.

Hmmmmm

[marktwain]

I bet he gave permission to search the car, always a bad idea. So much is illegal, contraband, or thought to be, it is almost never a good idea to give consent to search.

Refusing consent to search costs you little or nothing, and puts you on the side of the angels in upholding our Bill of Rights.

Rights are like muscles: Use them or lose them.

[Mark Felton]

clearly unwarranted search and seizure. My daughter drives one of our family cars to school and I certainly have not cleared it of "weapons". I keep a tool kit in there with all kinds of things that could be labeled dangerous, hammer, wrench, x-acto knife, screwdriver etc etc...and probably a folding knife (I'd have to check).

[Sloth]

Bachman said that excuse is not a "creditable defense."

Sloth says that Bachman is a "mindless whore."

[The Great RJ]

Too bad the kid wasn't in a "special ed" class--the kind for BD-behavioral disabled--he could have walked. Same too if he had been an appropriate minority and could have claimed racism

[Jack Wilson]

I have zero tolerance for zero tolerance.

[toenail]

Like Gatto said, "According to [Alexander] Inglis, the first function of schooling is the Adjustive Function, the establishment of fixed habits of reaction to authority (nothing in here about reading, writing, and arithmetic), the establishment of fixed habits of reaction to authority, in which I learned that stupid orders test this much better than sensible orders. People who follow sensible orders are just sensible, but people who follow stupid orders, those are the people you can trust. This prepares the young to accept whatever managers dictate when they're grown."

[ohioman]

If Sons-of-Bitches like these ever did this to one of my kids........... Well I better leave some things unsaid. :)

[Fpimentel]

Wouldn't a tire iron also be considered a lethal weapon? How about a sharpened
pencil? The car itself is a lethal weapon. What happened to common sense?

[DWSUWF]

We need aggressive attorneys to step forward and litigate civil cases, using whatever legal theories will get these cases before a jury.

Sue the institutions (the 'deep pockets') and sue the individuals involved with the objective of stripping them of their personal assets or forcing them into bankruptcy.

It would be difficult at first, with many dismissals. But a relentless onslaught of lawsuits would eventually bring these bastards to their knees as the occasional case squeaked through and some juries set good precedents.

SUE THE BASTARDS!

[AppyPappy]

It seems oddly they were randomly searching the car. I wonder is he said something to start the searchg (ie I've got a knife in my car and I'm going to cut you).

[DWSUWF]

"...It seems oddly they were randomly searching the car. I wonder is he said something to start the searchg (ie I've got a knife in my car and I'm going to cut you)..."

?

My guess (and my bet) would be no.

[Mr. Lucky]

When did a pocket knife become a weapon in Oklahoma?

[moyden]

Wir musten obeyen the rules!