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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
There really isn't that much of a difference. What matters really is the school system.
I love how you JUST KEEP telling me that these are thing "I should realize" when what I realize is that these are some things that YOU should realize is simply "out of your control".
This is the media we are talking about. An entity that THRIVES off of bad news if they made things 'simple', they wouldn't stay in business.
And to answer your number 5, I think the picture in the article and this passage:
“Zachary wears a suit and tie some days to school by his own choice because he takes school so seriously,” said Debbie Christie, Zachary’s mother, who started a Web site, helpzachary.com, in hopes of recruiting supporters to pressure the local school board at its next open meeting on Tuesday. “He is not some sort of threat to his classmates.
”Uhhhh...COMMON SENSE to me sounds like the parents (which is what's needed for the news to print that info in the first place) gave PERMISSION for the media TO USE his likeness...but, hey...what do I know?
and to your number 3, I think we have expressed that one already since the beginning of the thread and THAT was simple in case you missed it: LACK OF COMMON SENSE.
That sums this WHOLE ENTIRE thread up nicely.
Oh and I am sorry...but what do you mean by "Those Kinds of Kids"? exactly to whom are you referring to? What is the difference between those kids and "other" kids? How do you quantify such an empirical and wide sweeping statement? How many different school systems in how many years have you taught to know the difference?
I am really hoping you aren't referring to the type of kids I taught.
...hypocrite.
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Seeing as how you and others felt I was wrong for taking offense to the term "you," YOU are the hypocrite if you get upset at my usage of the phrase "those kinds of kids."
And while I notice yu want to put common sense in bold and all caps, the fact remains that YOU aren't using common sense in analysing the situation. Rules are in place to be followed. If they wanted to have a process where the weapon was confiscated first, then that is what they would have put in place. They didn't. I can't blame them.
Also, to reiterate a point I made earlier, there is something WRONG with a parent who is going to act as though her child did nothing wrong. This woman has GOT to be crazy. And I'm pretty sure had her son been at school and gotten cut with another child's knife, she would have been on the other side of the fence.
School systems need to stop being so political and allowing parents to run over them. Many parents are just NOT going to accept or admit that their child is wrong in certain instances...especially when doing so means their child will be suspended or sent to an alternative school. That is when officials have to be firm. That is one thing I will say about my school system (the one I attended and last worked in). The superintendent was very supportive of the principals in these types of situations and the board always backed him. They didn't let the parents try to tell them how to run the schools when it came to things like this. If there was a policy in place, that was it. No allowances were going to be made for one child as opposed to another.
ETA: This does not mean that every policy in place is a good one. In one school system where I worked, water guns were treated the same as real guns. Therefore if a child brought a water gun to school, they would be suspended for 365 days. I do think that is too stringent and should be changed, but luckily that policy only came into play once.
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