I mean… What?!
I never understood that concept. Forced apologies are worthless. An apology has value only if the person (child or adult) really feels sorry. It might happen, of course, that the kid feels really sorry after some good talking to, but in most cases, he’s going to feel sorry mostly for having been caught and being punished.
What the hell is a “district reengagement center”?
Oops. Double post.
A place where they’re fitted with electronic personality modifiers. 
It’s be funny if they ever start to make fun of someone again, they sing the same song Cartman sang.
“I love to sing-a, about the something something something in the Spring-a…”
Those kids suck ass, and they were made a HUGE fucking example of with a one-year suspension.
If you can’t do the time…don’t let someone video-record you and then upload it to youtube.
And— I hope— discouraged from playing jokes.
Agreed. Especially your immature peers.
Hey, as soon as someone started filming, the nearest wannbe-cool-as-shit 12 year old jumps into it, just so he can tell other kids, “Wait! Hear that guy? That’s ME, dude!” :rolleyes: Brilliant.
This is why in all these zombie movies we don’t see a lot of zombies heading for middle school braaaaaains. 
Fits in with the general tone of this message board. Conform or die.
Seems a bit over the top but it’s likely a reaction to the exposure.
Upstream you mentioned a Ms. Nash. I have my own anecdote. I went to school on Dublin’s Northside (in Fairview for you Irish Dopers). Very wroking class school We harassed a young trainee teacher to the point that she started crying. I know, lovely kids. She ran next door to the male teacher in the next class. Won’t name names but he was probably in his 30’s then but without doubt one if the scariest people I ever met. Really into Sinn Fein, wore the black armband during the Hunger Strikes. Anyways, he came into the class room and said that we needed to cut it out but that if we didn’t, he’d get us outside of school.
He threatened to batter us after school. As we walked home. He never raised his voice, didn’t use hyperbole, he just stated a fact.
I’m still afraid of him but she never had a problem with us again!
Yeah. It’s a pity there’s never any disagreement here.
I would assume that’s the name they’ve given to the area’s “school for bad kids”. It’s not unusual for a school district to have a special program for kids who got kicked out of their neighborhood schools or are considered to be “at risk” for other reasons (e.g. trouble with the law, drug problems, pregnancy).
Stray from the left of centre orthodoxy and meltdown ensues. You’ve been here long enough to know that.
Pregnancy? Really? They’re sent to a different school? Did not know that.
Sometimes. It depends on the district and the specific situation.
I mentioned this before, but the year-long suspension was rumored during the two days when this was just a local story.
And they won’t graduate a year later. They’ll spend the year in an “alternative school” and move up to 10th grade as scheduled in 2013.
Even so, I still think it’s overkill and brought about more by the publicity than by the actual offense. There’s worse bullying than that every single day of the school year at many schools across the nation that even if reported result in jack being done about it.
Okay, I appologize – I misread your comment. The rest of what I said stands. It was bullying, pure and simple. Even if she was in a petition of authority, those kids ganged up on her and said some pretty hateful things. If not bullying, wouldn’t you at least say it’s harassment?
Of course, I would say it’s harassment. I thought I made that clear. My point is that harassing an authority figure is not “bullying”. She was an authority figure. She lost control of the situation, true, but she is still the authority figure. Yelling at an authority figure, no matter how off the chain and how vicious the insults, is not “bullying”. She was a person in authority.
Why is that so hard for people to understand?
I agree that there’s worse, but schools keep getting shit for not doing anything about bullying. If these kids have to be made an example to deter others from being assholes, I’m all for it.