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Girl's arrest for doodling raises concerns about zero tolerance **facepalm**

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SphinxnihpS said:
LOL I would probably get 20 years for my 4 year run of ABCD Goldfish which was an episodic comic strip I etched on my high school desks with a compass and blacked in with a pencil.
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I just alerted DHS to this post. Expect to be raided shortly. I'm sorry, but we just cant tolerate this kind of activity.
 
this only further confirms my suspicion that 2/3 of all school administrators need to be fired.

NFS4 said:
Oh, almost forgot...
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waffleironhead said:
I just alerted DHS to this post. Expect to be raided shortly. I'm sorry, but we just cant tolerate this kind of activity.
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This has me thinking though. I might go back to school and see if they still have those desks in storage or something. Perhaps I can buy them. 20 or 30 ruined desks shouldn't cost that much.
 
SphinxnihpS said:
This has me thinking though. I might go back to school and see if they still have those desks in storage or something. Perhaps I can buy them. 20 or 30 ruined desks shouldn't cost that much.
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I like old school furniture. I'm talking about the old oak stuff they used years ago, not the newer rubber and steel sets.
 
Seriously, I would have been permanently expelled from school from all the stuff I did if these policies were in place. Something's gotta give on these ridiculous policies.
 
the funny thing is the policy only affects people it shouldn't.

my wife is a elementary school teacher and has a "disturbed" student this year who has been making threats towards the school, his family, and himself and has assaulted an aid. the school can't do anything about it because the kid is labeled "special needs".
 
Wow, I have no idea how this even got into this thread. It was in response to a completely different thread.
 
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lxskllr said:
I like old school furniture. I'm talking about the old oak stuff they used years ago, not the newer rubber and steel sets.
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The school I went to is an antique, but the desks were fairly new at the time, multi-colored plastic seats, roughly L-shaped laminate desk, metal legs, book rack under the seat.

I'm think more along the lines of canvas than furniture. Get the desks, remove tops, hang on walls.
 
JDub02 said:
the funny thing is the policy only affects people it shouldn't.

my wife is a elementary school teacher and has a "disturbed" student this year who has been making threats towards the school, his family, and himself and has assaulted an aid. the school can't do anything about it because the kid is labeled "special needs".
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They'll just wait until he shoots up the school and then play the blame game about what should have been done.
 
She vandalized the desk and deserves to be punished for that. Community service and a few days of detention spent cleaning desks seems reasonable.
 
mugs said:
She vandalized the desk and deserves to be punished for that. Community service and a few days of detention spent cleaning desks seems reasonable.
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... as part of her reacclimation process after serving 20 years in maximum security prison. Agreed
 
Zero tolerance is the same as sentencing those who steal a pencil with the death penalty. It doesn't work and doesn't curb any sort of behavior, but rather influences people to commit crimes which will fit the punishment. Stupid public education system.
 
mugs said:
She vandalized the desk and deserves to be punished for that. Community service and a few days of detention spent cleaning desks seems reasonable.
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And here is the thought process behind all those zero tolerance policies.
 
NFS4 said:
WTF? The MOST this little girl receives is detention.
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Why? Vandalism of desks and lockers is very common in schools. Maybe it wouldn't be so common if there was a deterrent. It's not as if community service and a couple of days of detention is a harsh punishment.

Do you think one day of detention is enough to alter her behavior?
 
mugs said:
Why? Vandalism of desks and lockers is very common in schools. Maybe it wouldn't be so common if there was a deterrent. It's not as if community service and a couple of days of detention is a harsh punishment.

Do you think one day of detention is enough to alter her behavior?
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She's a 12-year-old girl writing about her friends on her desk with a MAGIC MARKER that most likely would come off with a paper towel and some Windex (at the most, paint thinner). I'd say that one day of detention plus the janitor making her clean it up on her own would definitely be enough for her.

It's not like she called in a bomb threat or held a knife to the lunch lady's neck.

Some people just need to use some fucking common sense.
 
lokiju said:
While I think it's overboard, it does set an example to not deface property that's not their own.

I mean really, I never did shit like that when I was in school. Just because the context of what she wrote on the desk wasn't bad doesn't make it OK to write on a desk.

But arresting her is overboard reaction.
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agreed..instead possibly they should make her pay for a craftsman to come in and take the graffitti off the table.....or make her buy a whole new table......then she can take that table home and have a huge keepsake...
 
Zero tolerance rules in schools are by and large ridiculous


The only things that really should be zero tolerance are shooting up the school, burning down the school, slipping heroin in your principals coffee every morning for a few months then stopping, and similar tomfoolery
 
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