Comments on: It’s come to this

By: Shump

Shump — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:58:01 +0000

The result, he said, was that the student was labeled a “terrorist threat” and suspended for 10 days, Ficker said.

Yes, because if you have a terrorist threat, the best thing to do is to sit them out for 10 days. Because, as everyone knows, terrorists reform on the 11th day. It’s in the rules.

By: Fenris

Fenris — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:50:10 +0000

Parody is dead.

By: hopeful

hopeful — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:25:08 +0000

Absolute absurdity. Too many so-called educators are so indoctrinated themselves, they’ve lost all sense of reality. I hope this lawsuit ends with firing and some charges against those ‘officials’.

INC on January 20, 2013 at 12:54 PM

Public school teachers don’t get fired. They get moved to a different classroom. Public school administrators don’t get fired.
They get promoted.

By: Rebar

Rebar — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:18:25 +0000

You're all a bunch of racist bitter clingers. You HAVE to go to extremes to get a proper brainwashing, wingnuts.

By: The Rogue Tomato

The Rogue Tomato — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:13:53 +0000

The only way to stop a bad 5-year-old girl with a Hello Kitty Bubble Gun is with a good 5-year-old girl with a Hello Kitty Bubble Gun.

By: Christien

Christien — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:03:31 +0000

IMO, they are probably bunker types. Y’know, the type that hunkers inside the school building all day, not even bothering to see what really happens on the playground (not their job, of course). Then, they bravely gang up on a sheepdog kid who was protecting weaker kids from bullies–can’t have anyone showing them up for failing at their cushy jobs.

By: Weight of Glory

Weight of Glory — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:02:56 +0000

I have many many public school teachers in my family. My mother was an English teacher, my wife taught kindergarten, my sister-in-law teaches calculus, my mother and father-in-law are both retired teachers, and many more. But I can’t stress enough how broken the system is, and how impossible it is to untie the Gordian knot. You’d be amazed at the stories I hear. Parents blame teachers; teachers blame parents, school boards, and politicians; politicians blame lack of funding (which is such crap), and so on and so on. Public school is dying, rapidly. If you have the money, find a private school that has proven to be a school that produces a well educated student. If you don’t have the money, then look into home schooling. Get your kids out of a dying system that can’t help but suspend little girls for their bubble blowing toys.

By: Drained Brain

Drained Brain — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:00:25 +0000

“Out of an abundance of caution…”

So-called zero tolerance policies are implemented in part to preclude any rational decision-making and judgment by school employees.

In that they’ve succeeded spectacularly.

By: Christien

Christien — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:59:01 +0000

Sounds like a bunch of bullying and name-calling by the school officials. They need to attend re-education seminars about sensitivity, tolerance, diversity, bullying, etc., because they violated a lot of their own principles.

By: INC

INC — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:57:20 +0000

Hide the water pistols and super-soakers.