Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension
The story: Substitute teacher falls asleep in class, student uses cellphone to snap a picture to show to administrators who promptly bust student for violating school policy against use of cellphones during school. Punish the messenger and, more or less, disregard the message.
Rather than thank the student for bringing to their attention a grossly negligent substitute teacher, the administrators at the Oklahoma school punish the messenger because he broke a school policy of not using telecommunications devices during the school day.
So, if he'd used a digital camera without a cellular connection to take the photo, then taken that camera to the computer lab at the school or home to download it and then email it to the administrators, then everything would be hunky dorey? I doubt it. Seems like these administrators were embarrassed by this teacher's dereliction of duty and sought to diminish the messenger to avoid the message.
The school officials refused to comment on what sort of disciplinary action might befall the sleepy teacher but they were all too happy to discuss the student getting suspended for breaking their stupid rule.
What if the kid had used his cell phone to record a violent crime being committed? Would they still suspend him? Zero-tolerance policies are almost always used in places where people are too friggin' stupid to be able to think for themselves.
I feel bad for people who live in Oklahoma, there's a good reason it's firmly on my fly-over list. I'm sure there are good people in Oklahoma and probably nice things to do but if a state institution is being run by ignorant bureaucratic jackasses then I'd just as soon not visit or contribute my money to their stupidity. And that's money I have a choice over, did you know that most of these backwards ass stupid states take waaay more in Federal aid than they give back? Yeah. And then they have Tea Party rallies to decry entitlements. Dumbasses.
Rule #377 is Punishing the Messenger is Stupid
Showing posts with label zero tolerance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zero tolerance. Show all posts
3.25.2011
#339 Oregano is NOT Marijuana
Virginia Middle School Students Suspended for Oregano Possession
by citing a zero tolerance policy against "imitation controlled substances". That is, they got busted because the teacher thought they had a bag of pot, it wasn't and the teacher felt like a doofus and busted them anyway. With the backing of the school board.
Seriously? So I can presume the school cafeteria was raided shortly after these boys were suspended? I mean, come on, we know there's stuff in there that could be construed as an imitation controlled substance. When I was kid I heard about some other kid that desperately wanted to get high so he smoked some nutmeg. It got him really high, so high he went into convulsions and got to spend the night in the hospital.
Zero tolerance policies are often used as convenient means of removing common sense from any disciplinary proceedings. Its just plain stupid and I'd hope the families of the boys are planning on suing the school and the board for blowing the situation way, way out of proportion to the "crime".
Rule #339 is Oregano is NOT Marijuana
by citing a zero tolerance policy against "imitation controlled substances". That is, they got busted because the teacher thought they had a bag of pot, it wasn't and the teacher felt like a doofus and busted them anyway. With the backing of the school board.
Seriously? So I can presume the school cafeteria was raided shortly after these boys were suspended? I mean, come on, we know there's stuff in there that could be construed as an imitation controlled substance. When I was kid I heard about some other kid that desperately wanted to get high so he smoked some nutmeg. It got him really high, so high he went into convulsions and got to spend the night in the hospital.
Zero tolerance policies are often used as convenient means of removing common sense from any disciplinary proceedings. Its just plain stupid and I'd hope the families of the boys are planning on suing the school and the board for blowing the situation way, way out of proportion to the "crime".
Rule #339 is Oregano is NOT Marijuana
4.06.2010
#304 Don't Forget to Take Your Gun Out of Your Son's Truck
Maypearl Student With Gun Remains Suspended After Hearing
The headline is misleading because the gun in question was his father's, it was unloaded and his dad accidentally left the handgun in his son's truck that he'd borrowed to go hunting.
I get that schools have to be hyper-vigilant and protective against the next Columbine wanna-bes.
But there needs to be some thought applied to the rules and, in this case, the circumstances would lead a mediator to conclude that the kid posed no threat to himself, other students or faculty. His father may be a bit of a forgetful dumbass but that shouldn't be held against the kid.
And there is the likelihood of long term harm to the kid's career if he was being scouted by baseball scouts and can now no longer play. The school system is opening itself up to lawsuits by applying the absolute letter of the rule in this case where it is just unwarranted.
Notwithstanding the tangential way the weapon was found, dogs sniffing for drugs which they did not find but the officers did find the unloaded handgun.
Rule #304 is Don't Forget to Take Your Gun Out of Your Son's Truck
The headline is misleading because the gun in question was his father's, it was unloaded and his dad accidentally left the handgun in his son's truck that he'd borrowed to go hunting.
I get that schools have to be hyper-vigilant and protective against the next Columbine wanna-bes.
But there needs to be some thought applied to the rules and, in this case, the circumstances would lead a mediator to conclude that the kid posed no threat to himself, other students or faculty. His father may be a bit of a forgetful dumbass but that shouldn't be held against the kid.
And there is the likelihood of long term harm to the kid's career if he was being scouted by baseball scouts and can now no longer play. The school system is opening itself up to lawsuits by applying the absolute letter of the rule in this case where it is just unwarranted.
Notwithstanding the tangential way the weapon was found, dogs sniffing for drugs which they did not find but the officers did find the unloaded handgun.
Rule #304 is Don't Forget to Take Your Gun Out of Your Son's Truck
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