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MADDOG 
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Posted on: May 01 2014,2:20 pm |
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No, this is something the parents of the community have to handle. They need to pull their kids out of school until the school board resigns. At the end of the year, they pull the pull on the super.
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Actually my wife is especially happy when my google check arrives each month. Thanks to douchbags like you, I get paid just for getting you worked up. -Liberal
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Posted on: May 01 2014,6:25 pm |
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(irisheyes @ May 01 2014,10:50 am)
QUOTE I'd agree it was excessive punishment, but "excessive punishment" is pretty subjective, isn't it? What punishment would you impose for bringing a 3-inch knife to school?  The story says she was facing expulsion up to one year, they expelled for the rest of the school year. Well, it's mid-April... Zero tolerance policies are bothersome when they impact good kids, but so are double standards. I can guarantee if it was a poor kid from channel view or Court Street who's family couldn't afford a lawyer, we wouldn't even be talking about this and it wouldn't be in the paper or on national TV. Does that bother anyone else, or just me? 
Subjective? How about we just call it what it is, lack of judgement, plain and simple.
You seem upset with the three inch knife, there are probably more dangerous articles in the schools shop you pillow-biting progressive.
All the happened here is a superintendent that was over zealous manipulating a bunch of milk toast board members for his own amusement at the expense of an innocent little girl.
I hope her parents have the wisdom and the cash to maybe get her some college level classes till next fall.
Zero tolerance does not mean a suspension of brains.
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grassman
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Posted on: May 01 2014,6:28 pm |
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Zero tolerance is an excuse to be lazy and not deal with things on an individual basis. Go to to Walmart, one size does not fit all!
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Glad I Left
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Posted on: May 02 2014,8:23 am |
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(irisheyes @ May 01 2014,10:50 am)
QUOTE I'd agree it was excessive punishment, but "excessive punishment" is pretty subjective, isn't it? What punishment would you impose for bringing a 3-inch knife to school? The story says she was facing expulsion up to one year, they expelled for the rest of the school year. Well, it's mid-April... Zero tolerance policies are bothersome when they impact good kids, but so are double standards. I can guarantee if it was a poor kid from channel view or Court Street who's family couldn't afford a lawyer, we wouldn't even be talking about this and it wouldn't be in the paper or on national TV. Does that bother anyone else, or just me?
As I stated before, you pull her out of school until you find out more details. Err on the side of caution.
It seems that past history only comes into play when it is a bad person. This was a good kid by all accounts, does not that past history count?
As for the rest, I didn't know this girl or family when I posted this story to my Facebook wall. Nor did I know there socioeconomic background but still I was outraged nonetheless. They could have been from the local trailer court or from Park Ave.. doesn't matter to me.
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After we screw up health care reform, let's take on the initiative of unscrewing the education system (gov't education)
Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."
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Posted on: May 03 2014,7:58 am |
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Alyssa is a great girl and there is no way that knife was for anything other than chores. When she lived in Albert Lea she stayed with us quite a bit and in all the time she stayed here she never did anything wrong. And my daughters were just saying that anytime they were doing something wrong it was always Alyssa that was the voice of reason.
Also her family is not well off so I'm sure the lawyer wasn't easy to come by.
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Posted on: May 03 2014,11:56 am |
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Just a thought, would she be able to fine a caring, upstanding citizen in Albert Lea to stay with and finish out her school suspension?
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Liberal
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Posted on: May 03 2014,4:31 pm |
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Of course, she always has a bed here, but I'm sure she wants to stay with her dad and friends even if she has to finish the school year with a tutor. I'm just saying anyone that knows Alyssa knows that she had no ill intentions.
I don't understand this zero tolerance crap. When I was in school I got in quite a bit of trouble and I would have expected to be treated differently than an honor roll student that's never been in trouble. Otherwise what's the point of not getting in trouble?
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Posted on: May 03 2014,6:02 pm |
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^^me too, daily.
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