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Originally Posted by LEE72,Feb 4 2010, 04:27 PM
When I was in school, we used hunting knives to cut the shiz out of each other. When the teachers took those away from us, we used home-made shanks.
Sorry OP, you had it coming.
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Originally Posted by hammerhead300,Feb 4 2010, 02:12 PM
Normally I hate lawsuits, but in this case, I wouldn't have any resentment toward the kid's mother if she sued the school. If the students are held responsible for making stupid decisions on school premises, shouldn't the administration be too?
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Originally Posted by mxt_77,Feb 4 2010, 11:16 AM
Wow... talk about a "No Tolerance" Policy.
However, they should've confiscated the toy, and given the kid an in-house (maybe they did).
There's a couple of issues going on here:
1. The principal would've been fired for not following the policy to the letter.
2. The principal would've been shown to be lenient about the school policy, which would no doubt ruffle the feathers of some other parent, who would've had them fired. Worse, some teacher, like the theoretical outside parent, would have gotten irritated over this, nature of the facts be damned.
The principal was no doubt following procedure. Deviations from following procedures deny you protections when you get sued, common sense be damned.
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Originally Posted by BearNVa,Feb 4 2010, 02:56 PM
Yes for being stupid... I've never seen so many idiotic people in my life. WTH is going on in this place? Have all the adults gone stupid?
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i remember in elementary school a friend of mine brought a bb gun that looked like a .45 semi and the teacher asked him to give it to her and at the end of the day he got his gun and we got on the bus and went home. this was '92-'93ish
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Originally Posted by mxt_77,Feb 5 2010, 09:38 AM
Oh, and since nobody said it...
WRT to the topic title... "That's what she said."
WRT to the topic title... "That's what she said."
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Originally Posted by hammerhead300,Feb 4 2010, 11:12 AM
Normally I hate lawsuits, but in this case, I wouldn't have any resentment toward the kid's mother if she sued the school. If the students are held responsible for making stupid decisions on school premises, shouldn't the administration be too?
I agree that it's preposterous, but you can't sue someone for following rules. That would only make the mom an idiot.