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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:18 AM Original message |
8 Year Old Child Still Expelled for Toy Gun - a Year Later |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. If I was him, I would grow up and become a bank robber just to show them. |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. some responsibility must fall on the parents. Zero Tollerance is dumb, but it's a rule |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Adherence to zero policy explains his original explulsion, yes |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. true, they need specific defined punishments |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. Insanity... |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. Inert pieces of plastic are dangerous. |
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davepc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. Dupe |
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uncommon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. They should be fired - everyone who had a hand in making that decision and enforcing it. |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
8. A correctional school for problem students? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
9. Charter school |
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Riftaxe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Not to interrupt your irrational hatred of Charter Schools but |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. In some states it depends on state law. In general p. schools are only allowed 1 year of expulsion. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. +1 |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 09:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. here it is 365 days (ie a calendar year) |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:50 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. And its only from that school. Parents could have applied to another school for admission |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-18-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. not here |
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Saboburns (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
10. Pure Fucking Madness |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
12. We used to bring cap guns to school |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. During deer season a lot of students brought their deer rifles to school, |
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Gaedel (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-18-10 09:02 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Back in high school in the fifties |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
13. Kid needs to be in school learning |
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sandrakae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
14. So he is suppose to grow up stupid with no means to support himself but a life of crime? |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
15. Charter school, eh? Bet they don't want this kid in there for some other reason, and the toy |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Bingo |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 09:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. He is probably Latino and they are afraid he will drag down test scores. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 11:34 AM Original message |
"zero tolerance" is exemplary of a society that values failed ideology more than solutions that work |
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Maat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
18. Homeschool. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. So stupid. |
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midnight armadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-17-10 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
25. Zero tolerance is a sign of utter failure by the administration |
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