[Rhodes22-list] Public Education - Yeah, it's POLITICAL

[Steven Alm]

Herb,

We had a high school senior up here just last week that was caught with a
box-cutter in his car in the school parking lot.  The lot was being checked
for parking stickers when it was spotted in plain view in the cup holder.
OK, now the kid had an after-school job at Cub Foods doing, guess what,
cutting boxes but the school has, as most, a zero tolerance for anything
pointy on school grounds and he was suspended and threatened with
expulsion.  The school board said it would be unfair to other students to
NOT expell him.  After a week of wrangling and heated discussion the board
decided to let him stay in school but with a heafty probation.
Administration on steroids.

Slim

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>wrote:

> Watch this:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJfqyzfCPg
>
> They had these kids ARRESTED!!!! Watch the dour faced "educator" hold
> her face squarely serious as she talks about "disrupting an educational
> environment".
>
> I want to one of the asshats look squarely at the camera, and say that
> when they had these students arrested, they were acting in the best
> interests of the kids they teach.
>
> Yeah, right.
>
> Ever wonder what some of us are so dead set against these bureaucratic
> morons?
>
> I once drove my motorcycle through my college's library, LONG before
> D-Day rode his up the stairs on Delta House. Guess I was just lucky that
> 1) It was a private school more interested in people than the importance
> of their jobs and 2) I was smart/desperate enough that I didn't slow
> down until I was 20 miles down I-35.
>
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