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[somedaybitch]

you have got to be fucking kidding me.

A fifth-grade promotion ceremony in Rancho Palos Verdes turned into a free-speech battleground Thursday, when students were asked to remove weapons from toys that had been placed on mortarboard caps because of the school's zero-tolerance policy for weapons on campus.

[emphasis mine.]

no wonder California's ranked down by the bottom of the country in terms of education. some of its educators are utter morons.

Comments

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

oh, they ain't all:
No Touchy!
h/t to Dr. Helen...

Though the subjects are totally different, it's amazing to me just what rule they will put in place to make sure that NOBODY makes a frelling decision... not a teacher, not administration, not parent, and certainly NOT THE CHILD.

had to laugh about the kid who wrapped the little stumps in gauze and painted blood on them. I'm sure he has no idea just how right he is about what is being wounded here. It isn't free speech per se. It's the ability to think for yourself, IMHO...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i distinctly said 'some', yo.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

and, uhm, that link just seems to support my point. /cornfuzed

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

that would be where I explain by saying... 'oh, they ain't all' was meant to mean they aren't the only ones... but you didn't catch the arched eyebrow, because indeed you cannot see me... and maybe I'm a figment or something... fig-newton, figgy pudding... or hungry. :D

[themonkeycabal.livejournal.com]

man! you beat me to explaining what you meant by explaining what you meant before I could explain it.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

OHHHHHHHHHHH. goht.iht.

[themonkeycabal.livejournal.com]

I think he means the ridiculousness is not confined to California's school administrators.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

mi brainz iz eaten bi teh work!thoopid

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

you work for zombies????

hmmm, maybe your brains are tasty... mmmm, brains... ;)

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::hidez brainz:::

[themonkeycabal.livejournal.com]

I like in the link how they explain the game of bloody knuckles, as if it were some new brutish fad, signs of our social decline, and not something that's been played in school yards for decades. Or else, parents have forgotten what they were like on the playground. I mean, I played bloody knuckles, and I'm a girl, for cryin out loud. I also distinctly remember how we'd go to the far edge of the yard, away from grown up interference, in order to play Red Rover -- and no teacher's dire warnings of broken arms, dislocated shoulders, or concussions ever stopped us. Of course, we weren't doing anything so terrible as hugging or giving each other high-fives -- what are children these days turning into? Hugging? Beasts!

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

i played BOTH of those...AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL ffs!

[gingerwood.livejournal.com]

Me too :)

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::clings:::

[gingerwood.livejournal.com]

Geeze. I hate zero-tolerance rules with a passion, they make no allowances for common sense or emergency situations. Around here a boy got suspended for loaning his friend his inhaler during a potentially deadly athma attack, due to a zero tolerance drug rule.

In the article you cite, I was especially blown away by this justification: "Counselors have heard from girls who are uncomfortable hugging boys but embarrassed to tell anyone". Unwanted physical contact isn't a problem that's going to go away once they leave middle school. It would serve the abovementioned girls far better to teach them to deliver a firm 'No' and that people who don't respect that are people you don't want to associate with. What happens in High School or College when some guy starts forcing far more than a hug on her and she's too embarrassed to tell anyone?

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

that earth logic will just get you nowhere, missy.;)

[itsazoo.livejournal.com]

AFD stole my reply...I love the I'll-show-you attitude of the kid who put bandages and blood on his wounded soldiers. He's my kinda guy. Since I'm not a teacher, he's a little young for me, but still.

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

Since I'm not a teacher, he's a little young for me

... *eyebrow* Umm?

::takes probably-overreacting-or-at-least-most-likely-oversensitive teacher-self out of wg's journal::

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::gets dutch's comment now:::

she was kidding? :::licks your ear:::

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!!!!!! that was so cool.

[itsazoo.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. It was a joke. I meant no offense to teachers, at all. I beg your pardon.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

hope you weren't begging my pardon, sugar. i took it in the vein you meant

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for being cranky; pet peeve, I guess. No worries. :)

[itsazoo.livejournal.com]

No, it was for Stars. See her post just above yours.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

bit slow on my own lj. oy.