Gub'ment skool antics, redux.

[Embar Angylwrath]

Kid tosses a rubberband on teacher's desk, and gets a level 4 disciplinary action from the school.

Other violations that also receive level 4 punishment include arson, assault and battery, bomb threats and explosives, according to the Code of Student Conduct.

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.d ... S/50223002

Your tax dollars at work.

[Partha]

So, in other words, a kid broke the law, and is getting punished according to that law.

So you're in favor of not following the law?

[superwalrus]

ugh, fucking hispanics

Walrus

[Embar Angylwrath]

So, in other words, a kid broke the law, and is getting punished according to that law.

So you're in favor of not following the law?

What law? There a law against possession of a rubber band?

[Burz]

ugh, fucking hispanics

Walrus

x2

[Akhbarali]

You'll shoot your eye out.

Akhbar

[Alannia_Raindancer]

Don't google for deaths involving rubber bands. It's not pretty.... Trust me on this one.

But none of the stories I found regarding either the tossing of, or even the shooting of, a rubber band lead to serious injuries....

My only guess is that this kid shot the rubber band at the teacher, and the school has a "no tolerance" policy. While I'm not a big fan of "No Tolerance Policies (seen too many girls suspended for giving their female-friends in-need some Midol to make it through math class) , I understand the reasons for them.

without more info, it's difficult to judge what happened here.

[Partha]

The district said a Level 4 offense includes the use of any object or instrument used to make a threat or inflict harm, including a rubber band.

So glad they taught you reading at that fine private school, Embar.

[Burz]

In that case I hope those kids don't use sharpened pencils.

[Relbeek Einre]

Personally I think some teachers follow these zero tolerance policies to the letter simply to publicize the absurdity of them, and thereby get them altered or stricken.

[Embar Angylwrath]

The district said a Level 4 offense includes the use of any object or instrument used to make a threat or inflict harm, including a rubber band.

So glad they taught you reading at that fine private school, Embar.

Is that a law Partha?

So glad you took reading comprehension.

[jookkor]

The zero tollerance stuff in American schools is fucking rediculous. Its bad enough to try to fuck up personal rights with conveniance-oriented reactionary politics but yer own kids? wtf. I have heard quite a few retarded stories along similar lines from school-aged people. I thought it was just because they goto school In littleton in the same district as the cranky goth rambo dudes but the whole country is like this??

[Relbeek Einre]

Depends on the area, jookkor. I know of no such retarded zero-tolerance policies in either of the school districts in which my children have gone. Zero-tolerance policies mostly have to do with either A) a severe fear of liability or B) pressure from alarmist parents' groups. And neither public nor private schools are immune from either.

[Relbeek Einre]

Oh, and here's the funny thing. In many cases, kids expelled from public school for zero-tolerance policy reasons will not get admitted to a private school - since of course private schools can pick and choose who they want as students - because the expulsion from public school shows the child is undesirable in the eyes of the private schools.

Zero tolerance redux!

[Aabe]

Actually if there were a LOT of private schools, you might argue a market for children that have difficulty following rules would emerge. They would have a lock on the market and charge more than regular private schools. Perhaps the additional cost would ENCOURAGE the parents to pay more attention to instructing their young. Take the beer money and get dads attention kind of thing.

[Relbeek Einre]

Or it simply might make the parents not send their kids to school.

[Embar Angylwrath]

Or it simply might make the parents not send their kids to school.

Well.. that's a separate issue now, isn't it.

[Relbeek Einre]

No... not really.

[Aabe]

If the law requires it, it becomes a no edcuational matter and one of a legal nature.

[Relbeek Einre]

If the law requires it, then the public schools get saddled with the private schools' refuse, as it is today.