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Cool story bro
That is what the bully would be doing to your kid - because you told your kid you would disown him and be ashamed of him if he didn't fight a kid twice his size.
Are you aware that schools all over the nation from coast to coast have adopted the policy of zero tolerance on threats and children are ordered by school administration and teaching staff to report any and all possible threats - no matter who they come from.
Are you taking the position that the policy itself is flawed and the people who run our schools are somehow "cretins" for trying to protect children with this policy?
Are you taking the position that children should be told by parents NOT to follow school instructions and to NOT report what they have been told to report?
The little kid punching the big bully in the nose and bully runs away crying is an Andy Griffith Mayberry script, not reality.
Most bullies are cowards, who only pick on victims that they do not expect to fight back.
If a bully picks on someone smaller and weaker than himself, but his victim does fight back, the bully is going to get hurt. Perhaps he won't be hurt as badly as his victim, but he will be hurt. And next time, he'll choose a different victim, and hope that that victim doesn't fight back. The one who fought back, he'll likely leave alone.
In 2013, Devonshire Alternative Elementary School ranked worse than 78.4% of elementary schools in Ohio. It also ranked 19th among 74 ranked elementary schools in the Columbus City School District.
The second sentence added to the first one says the entire school district is a disaster. If Devonshire school is worse than 78% of schools in the state, BUT is better than over 65% of the other schools in the district?
Time to get rid of the school officials who believe school is their personal political and social-left goals and instead have school officials who are educators.
that is because it removes having to use judgment and thinking from the duties of the school administrators. Its a policy tailored to fit people who have shortages of both attributes.
It takes a cretin to see harmless and common child's play as a “threat” worthy of punishment; which is very much what appears to be happening here.
Are you taking the position that children should be told by parents NOT to follow school instructions and to NOT report what they have been told to report?
Are you taking the position that children should be told by parents NOT to follow school instructions and to NOT report what they have been told to report?
If a school directive is totally idiotic (and in this case it is) then the answer is yes. I want my kids to grow up to be independent thinkers with common sense, not dumb little fascists.Is it your position then that parents like yourself should tell their children to NOT follow the school directives and NOT report incidents like this thereby directly violating the rules of the school?
No we are taking the position that the school should use their heads and their brains (it is school after all) to say is this a threat or kids play. No tolerance means no thinking which when it comes to school is a the ultimate irony.
the school that fears thinking all in all not cool
It must have been a problem if it was not just escalated but escalated numerous times. And where were the parents when this policy was first proposed? People keep talking about "zero tolerance", but this has nothing to do with zero tolerance. This was a campus wide problem that had been going on for some time.Devonshire Principal Patricia Price has warned students about pretend gun play numerous times this year, and everyone should know the rules by now.
In 2013, Devonshire Alternative Elementary School ranked worse than 78.4% of elementary schools in Ohio. It also ranked 19th among 74 ranked elementary schools in the Columbus City School District.
The second sentence added to the first one says the entire school district is a disaster. If Devonshire school is worse than 78% of schools in the state, BUT is better than over 65% of the other schools in the district?
Time to get rid of the school officials who believe school is their personal political and social-left goals and instead have school officials who are educators.
Ohio Student Points Finger Like Gun, Is Suspended - ABC News
A central Ohio principal says she suspended a 10-year-old boy from school for three days for pretending his finger was a gun and pointing it at another student's head.The boy's father says it's the adults who are acting childish for suspending the boy from Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Columbus last week.
I'm with the dad on this one.
Common sense is something in very short supply in our society today. Being it something as foolish as this or suspending another child for eating a pop tart into the form of a gun. I have only one question, are we ruled by simple minded idiots? Are simple minded idiots in charge of schools, government, police and other institutions? It sure seems so.
I'm sorry, but what is it exactly that you don't understand?
Do you think the schools just make these rules arbitrarily for no reason? Aren't teachers allowed to teach without children trying to or pretending to kill each other in the classroom, anymore?
I dunno, whats so inappropiate and PC about shooting up a school?
What I don't understand is how you, and apparently these moronic educators, are trying to make the case that a finger pointed at someone is as potentially dangerous as a loaded weapon. I think schools make rules like this because they are lazy and don't trust the teachers and staff to be smart enough to be able to tell the difference between a pop tart or a finger and a real threat. It's the worst kind of knee jerk reactions.
No, but I could probably find quite a few that were shot for pointing their middle finger.I can't find a citation anywhere, so can you provide a link that lists all of the schools that have been shot up by 10 year old boys using their fingers?
It's a behaviour problem. The boy, Nathan was part of a larger group of boys that were playing cops and robbers in the classrooms, in the halls, all over the school, ignoring teachers, upsetting other students, disrupting class and creating an atmosphere of unruliness and chaos. Over the course of a month, the school sent out letters to all the parents warning them of the problem and that there would consequences if the behaviour continued. Nathan was the first boy to get caught and he admits he was warned. So what exactly is your problem? Do the teachers have a right to control the classroom in their care? Are they there to teach or babysit? Do you want them to be responsible for your kids? Then stop undermining and attacking them or your kids won't have any teachers or schools at all. Hard labor and low wages will be the future for your kids. Do you understand now or is your knee still jerking?
The school didn't write the headlines. The father of the boy posted a video on youtube stating that was the reason. The letters sent out by the school said the boys were playing cops and robbers in the classroom. The article misled you, blame them. Now days you have to read more than one source to get the whole story because objective journalism is fast becoming a thing of the past.IMO, based on your post then the child should have been suspended for , "ignoring teachers, upsetting other students, disrupting class and creating an atmosphere of unruliness and chaos. " after being warned.
The pointing of the finger as a gun should have nothing to do with the suspension. I could blame it on the typical hyped reporting.
Of course they should, we need the next generation of nosey little punks.
No we are taking the position that the school should use their heads and their brains (it is school after all) to say is this a threat or kids play. No tolerance means no thinking which when it comes to school is a the ultimate irony.
the school that fears thinking all in all not cool
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