Teen expelled for one year over spitwads

[piasabird]

I think one thing we need is that we need to start publishing names of minors over the age of 12 and publishing it in the newspaper and publicly humiliate them as well as kick them out of school for the rest of the year. Dont koddle retards. Shame them and their families.

School Suspension is just a vacation for some of these idiots.

Also make the parents pay to have the punk go to School during the summer, or dont allow the thug back in school in the fall. This punishes the parent and the criminal.

 

[Double Trouble]

This "zero tolerance" bullshit has to go. How many instances of this kind of insanity do we have to see before we start doing something about it and getting rid of the idiots putting in zero thought....errr... tolerance policies?

 

[Brigandier]

This "zero tolerance" bullshit has to go. How many instances of this kind of insanity do we have to see before we start doing something about it and getting rid of the idiots putting in zero thought....errr... tolerance policies?

If you don't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.

 

[nageov3t]

This "zero tolerance" bullshit has to go. How many instances of this kind of insanity do we have to see before we start doing something about it and getting rid of the idiots putting in zero thought....errr... tolerance policies?

if the kid was smart enough to at least pretend to show remorse, the school probably would have shown leniency.

it's a good life lesson!

 

[Lanyap]

Pellets are not spitballs. They're also not harmless if they'll leave a welt as reported by the article. From the article it appears to me that Daddy is the real problem, it's hard for a kid to learn right from wrong when his father doesn't know the difference.

So if he had finger flicked their ears and it left a welt it would still be assault?

 

[PeshakJang]

but Mikel said she had already had his son interrogated by police and her mind was made up.

Pretty sure that's illegal. You can't question a child as a suspect unless his parent's are present.

 

[Ackmed]

Another case that shows America is too pussified now. Its pathetic.

 

[chucky2]

We have ourselves to blame as a society really. The 'zero tolerance' BS was because we a.) did not take care of business at home ourselves when kids misbehaved and b.) allowed whining F tards to actually gain traction instead of telling them to STFU.

When you do that for 20-30+ years, what you end up getting is what we've got, and are becoming. Only the ACLU is happy, and they don't count, and therefore are irrelevent (until they're suing you)...

Chuck

 

[bozack]

If you don't do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.

The Kid is 14...

The sad thing is all the ninnys will get it to the point where you get one shot and if you screw up there is no comming back...

This stuff used to happen all the time in high school, that and pranks, water gun fights on school grounds, fights....the most you got was a few days off unless you did something very severe, but in virtually all cases you got a few chances before they dropped the hammer.

I am all for doing whatever is necessary to stop bullying and what not, but at the same time we can't start treating them like they are adults because with the way our society is they just aren't.

 

[HeXen]

The Kid is 14...

old enough to know not to shoot spitwads. i bet he never does it again either, unlike if he just got scolded or something.

 

[hal2kilo]

To me, now that we have all these massive database that last for eternity, this has really become a big problem.

You know, at least when I was a kid going though school, they used to have that standard expression, "This is going to go on your permanant record" and supposedly it would affect your ability to get into a college. For the most part none of that information ever would be visible to a college when you were making applications.

Now, everthing in your life ends up in some kind of searchable database that even though it's suppose to expire got replicated in some "private" database. Except for a few times when someone would slip threw the cracks, none of this suff really mattered and people would chaulk it up to "youthfull indiscretion". To me this makes the ability to "start over" very difficult. Every friggin minor incident you've had with law enforcement stays there forever even when it's officially off your record in 3 or whatever years.

 

[FaaR]

old enough to know not to shoot spitwads.

Maybe. Not all kids mature at the same rate, physically or mentally. In any case I'm sure you did some dumb shit too when you were fourteen-ish (and most likely older too), as have most adults (assuming you are in fact an adult, which sounds a bit doubtful in your particular case...)

On a scale of 1-10 where 10 is sadistically murdering someone by chopping them to pieces with a machete, shooting plastic beads at some kids by breathing through a pen-like object and causing "stings" and leaving a "welt" (tiny red spot) on one person rates about ZERO POINT ONE.

It doesn't warrant three counts of assault charges for fuck's sake. Nor does it giving this kid a permanent record that'll wreck his future. Holy fucking crap, are you people totally out of your tiny goddamn minds?

i bet he never does it again either, unlike if he just got scolded or something.

I think there's better, less overly excessive ways to handle what he did.

You americans are insane. No sense of proportions whatsoever. But you reap what you sow, your country's fucked and you did it all to yourselves with this zero tolerance garbage, O'Reilly and Glenn Beck and all of that crap. You might now know it yet, but you'll see.

 

[HeXen]

Maybe. Not all kids mature at the same rate, physically or mentally. In any case I'm sure you did some dumb shit too when you were fourteen-ish (and most likely older too), as have most adults (assuming you are in fact an adult, which sounds a bit doubtful in your particular case...)

actually, i never even got sent to the principals office. however regardless of maturity, has nothing to do with whether you know what you should not do.
your assumptions otherwise are just that, but i'm sure your old enough to know that judging people based on a paragraph of text is pretty stupid.

 

[Genx87]

Zero tolerance policies are so fucking stupid.

 

[AreaCode707]

Geez, the teenagers in my youth group do stupid shit like this at least once every time I see them. They don't mean anything by it, they are just young enough to have poor impulse control, even when someone is sitting with them.

The response the school has to this kid is totally out of proportion.

 

[LumbergTech]

old enough to know not to shoot spitwads. i bet he never does it again either, unlike if he just got scolded or something.

are you kidding?

you really think this will teach him a lesson?

if anything it will probably make his behavior even worse and possibly lead to a criminal career..taking someone out of school..for a year?? give me a fucking break