OMG: We wonder why kids are so stupid just look at what schools do to them

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Ultima

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Originally posted by: CheapArse
the kid has ADD, stupid officer.....one of those retards that gives out jaywalking tickets i bet.....

Or spitting tickets? I know someone that got one of those.
 

deftron

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This is a small town with a population of 6,000




It's like an episode of Andy Griffith giving the kid a hometown
lesson by taking him in ..


There were probably two other people in the jail.
The deputy and maybe the town drunk


 

Hubris

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Originally posted by: Ronstang
the kid has ADD, stupid officer.....one of those retards that gives out jaywalking tickets i bet.....

Your point? So the kid has ADD and his parents cowardly hide behind a convenient label that they feel exonerates them ffom responsibility. When I was a kid ADD meant Apparantly Devoid of Discipline......seems to me the kid got a good lesson in reality.

rofl. What 'reality' would that be? That you can get arrested for jumping in a mud puddle? Do you honestly think that should be an arrestable offense? He's a friggin kid; jumping in mud puddles is what kids DO.
 

Rogue

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As a cop, I often times evaluate the offense based on my own personal history. I know damn well I've jumped in a puddle or two in my time, so I would never arrest someone for that singular offense, it would be hypocritical. Far too often I find that I read about stupid police officers making stupid decisions about things that they've surely done in their lifetime that didn't really hurt anyone else. Someone playing their music loud and I'm the only one that hears it?

On a side note, I was at a security checkpoint on post conducting vehicle inspections and just as I was leaving, a white Mustang convertible came through just blasting the hell out of some music. I looked over at the guard who was looking back at me like, "Are you gonna make this guy turn his music down?" When I realized the guy in the car was playing Michael Jackson's Thriller album, I motioned to him to turn his music down, then I told him, "At least you're playing something decent, turn it back up!" The gate guard's face was hilarious and the guy turned the music up and pulled out of the checkpoint blaring some MJ.
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: notfred
Public schools in the US are so fvcked now. I will NOT be sending my kids to them, when I have kids.

Me neither. Either home schooling or private schooling, the latter if we can afford it.

Public schools aren't safe for anyone - if you're religious, you get persecuted and repressed, if you're just an ordinary active kid you get punished, if you're a scumbag misfit you get a free pass, if your parents teach you to stay abstinent until marriage you get free condoms, if you get pregnant you get taken to an abortion clinic or shipped to another school, if you're college prep you get picked on, if you're vocational you get picked on, blah blah blah etc. etc.

I hated high school. :|
 

XZeroII

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I agree that the arrest was excessive, but the kid having ADD shouldn't make a difference. We shouldn't start making exceptions for stuff like that and letting them get away with it just because they have a disorder. The kid should have been punished, but being arrested is a bit much.
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: CheapArse
the kid has ADD, stupid officer.....one of those retards that gives out jaywalking tickets i bet.....

The kid doesn't have ADD. He's just a kid. Doctors need to stop drugging childhoods into supression! There's no such thing as ADD!
 

GasX

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Originally posted by: CheapArse
the kid has ADD, stupid officer.....one of those retards that gives out jaywalking tickets i bet.....
Yeah - any kid who doesn't do what he is told should immediately be put on Ritalin...

 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: rgwalt
Zero tolerance policies don't work. There was a really great kid that had a knife in the bed of his pickup that he had used for hunting over the weekend. It was reported, and he was expelled for 1 year due to the zero tolerance weapons policy at my high school. I'm sure things have only become worse since I left.

I'm not going to rule out public schools for my kids, but I won't rule out private school either. However, if I'm going to send my child to private school, shouldn't I get at least some credit for the taxes I've paid in?

Ryan

All public schools should be privatized, but regulated. What makes our country great is competition (capitalism). When the government communizes programs like Public education, Healthcare, Social Security, etc. You end up with a bloated, wasted, worthless social program. Instead of teacher's unions, if you had private schools all competing for students, and school taxes were eliminated, then the total cost of education would dramatically go down and teacher's would wave their power by simply working for a different school rather than striking the school they're in.
 

her209

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Somebody kick his arse already. Behavior like that shouldn't be tolerated... ADD or not.
 

Atlantean

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Isn't that illegal cause hes a minor? And who gives a fsck he was stomping in a puddle and is 12, what more can you really expect from the kid?
 
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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: rgwalt
Zero tolerance policies don't work. There was a really great kid that had a knife in the bed of his pickup that he had used for hunting over the weekend. It was reported, and he was expelled for 1 year due to the zero tolerance weapons policy at my high school. I'm sure things have only become worse since I left.

I'm not going to rule out public schools for my kids, but I won't rule out private school either. However, if I'm going to send my child to private school, shouldn't I get at least some credit for the taxes I've paid in?

Ryan

All public schools should be privatized, but regulated. What makes our country great is competition (capitalism). When the government communizes programs like Public education, Healthcare, Social Security, etc. You end up with a bloated, wasted, worthless social program. Instead of teacher's unions, if you had private schools all competing for students, and school taxes were eliminated, then the total cost of education would dramatically go down and teacher's would wave their power by simply working for a different school rather than striking the school they're in.

The teachers' unions would never go for that of course, because that would mean the teachers would have to compete, and actually do a competent job to retain their positions. There are some good teachers in the system still, but the fscktards outnumber them greatly.
 
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Shorty McGurk: "Hey kid, what're you in for? Me, I strangled my Ma with piano wire, then chopped her up and fed her to my dog. Lefty over there, he don't say much, but he got busted for moiderin' a buncha hookers."

Kyle Fredrikson: "I stomped in a puddle and splashed some kids and a school official with mud."

Shorty McGurk: (Recoiling back against the wall) "Oh geez, that's some fscked up crazy sh!t, y'know!? Guard! Guard! I want a different cell, I don't wants ta be in here wit' dis psycho!"
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: rgwalt
Zero tolerance policies don't work. There was a really great kid that had a knife in the bed of his pickup that he had used for hunting over the weekend. It was reported, and he was expelled for 1 year due to the zero tolerance weapons policy at my high school. I'm sure things have only become worse since I left.

I'm not going to rule out public schools for my kids, but I won't rule out private school either. However, if I'm going to send my child to private school, shouldn't I get at least some credit for the taxes I've paid in?

Ryan

All public schools should be privatized, but regulated. What makes our country great is competition (capitalism). When the government communizes programs like Public education, Healthcare, Social Security, etc. You end up with a bloated, wasted, worthless social program. Instead of teacher's unions, if you had private schools all competing for students, and school taxes were eliminated, then the total cost of education would dramatically go down and teacher's would wave their power by simply working for a different school rather than striking the school they're in.

The teachers' unions would never go for that of course, because that would mean the teachers would have to compete, and actually do a competent job to retain their positions. There are some good teachers in the system still, but the fscktards outnumber them greatly.

Perhaps what we need is a Private school Cooperative. I see private schools all over, both religious and non-religious. But they're all very individualized. Would be cool to have a national Private school corporation that placed schools all over the U.S.... the trick is funding them, most private schools you have to pay out of pocket, waivers would help, but they need a way to pay for their staff, somehow make a profit... maybe an extremely low interest rate school loan, that you pay for 30 years after graduation? :confused:
 

WinkOsmosis

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Originally posted by: deftron
This is a small town with a population of 6,000




It's like an episode of Andy Griffith giving the kid a hometown
lesson by taking him in ..


There were probably two other people in the jail.
The deputy and maybe the town drunk

Hahahahahahahahah!

This is true. I don't see how it's a big deal. Not like they pressed charges.
 

Chadder007

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Originally posted by: rgwalt
Zero tolerance policies don't work. There was a really great kid that had a knife in the bed of his pickup that he had used for hunting over the weekend. It was reported, and he was expelled for 1 year due to the zero tolerance weapons policy at my high school. I'm sure things have only become worse since I left.

I'm not going to rule out public schools for my kids, but I won't rule out private school either. However, if I'm going to send my child to private school, shouldn't I get at least some credit for the taxes I've paid in?

Ryan

No, no credit. Thats like asking poor people back for the money you gave them for their welfare checks. If you live in the city...city taxes go towards the city school, for the welfare of the city basically.
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: Chadder007
Originally posted by: rgwalt
Zero tolerance policies don't work. There was a really great kid that had a knife in the bed of his pickup that he had used for hunting over the weekend. It was reported, and he was expelled for 1 year due to the zero tolerance weapons policy at my high school. I'm sure things have only become worse since I left.

I'm not going to rule out public schools for my kids, but I won't rule out private school either. However, if I'm going to send my child to private school, shouldn't I get at least some credit for the taxes I've paid in?

Ryan

No, no credit. Thats like asking poor people back for the money you gave them for their welfare checks. If you live in the city...city taxes go towards the city school, for the welfare of the city basically.

Pun intended?