School Days
Wow! More than a month since my last post! I’ve been so busy with school that blogging has been side-lined (see "Cobwebs, 6/16/06)!
I heard an interesting news item this morning. Seems a high school kid in Vermont threatened another kid. The threat was taken seriously and the kid was suspended from school for three days after he admitted his guilt. After “serving his time” the kid was allowed to return to school. Nothing newsworthy there until you find out that this all happened three weeks ago and the mother of the kid that was threatened is now raising a big rukus with the school department and has kept her son out of school since the incident. In light of the recent events that included kids killing kids and school invasions, I don’t know if she’s wrong and that’s my question. Is this woman over reacting or is she correct in keeping her son out of school? Was the school department correct in allowing the first kid to return to classes? Whose rights should prevail here? When should the bully’s threats be taken seriously and when should they be addressed with a simple suspension?
Public school has, for a long time, been a morally decadent place, devoid of good, decent values. Now it has become a physically dangerous place, too.
Your comments?
I heard an interesting news item this morning. Seems a high school kid in Vermont threatened another kid. The threat was taken seriously and the kid was suspended from school for three days after he admitted his guilt. After “serving his time” the kid was allowed to return to school. Nothing newsworthy there until you find out that this all happened three weeks ago and the mother of the kid that was threatened is now raising a big rukus with the school department and has kept her son out of school since the incident. In light of the recent events that included kids killing kids and school invasions, I don’t know if she’s wrong and that’s my question. Is this woman over reacting or is she correct in keeping her son out of school? Was the school department correct in allowing the first kid to return to classes? Whose rights should prevail here? When should the bully’s threats be taken seriously and when should they be addressed with a simple suspension?
Public school has, for a long time, been a morally decadent place, devoid of good, decent values. Now it has become a physically dangerous place, too.
Your comments?
posted by Priscilla49 @ 3:41 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:18 AM,
Priscilla49 said…
I would tend to agree. But here comes the ACLU with all its clout and charges that we only have a "he said" situation without real proof. How do you weed out school bullies that pull most of there terrorizing behind closed locker-room doors? I remember being terrorized in high school by a whole clique of girls who thought they were "all that". I was lucky to get off with verbal harrassment but others in my class suffered bruises that were chalked up to klutzy behavior by the administration. I agree that high school kids ought to be held to adult rules when it comes to violent behavior, but I don't know what that would look like if you have to adhere to the same rules of evidence that adult courts require?
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