Cry in school, go to jail

[Mellivora_capensis]

@Greathouse

Actually, he’s not even the one who said it. That was me and I’ve already apologized for the mistake. I don’t know how he got attributed to my quote, but that’s what looks like happened.

No harm, no foul.

If I have miss understood your whole conversation then…never mind I guess, and sorry for trying to jump into a two seater.

Jeez, this plane is spinning out of control. Hopefully I can summarize and prevent the need for a black box recovery operation.

Greathouse, you posted in the wrong thread, got chewed out, came back in, apologised for a mis-post. jjimm then copied your post (FTR, I laughed out loud), saoirse dumped some road rage on him, jjimm apologised, asked for clarification, saoirse responded with a retraction (or sumtin’), and I’m still giggling as I write this.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Just checked Google News, & nothing new on the case.

[Greathouse]

@Mellivora capensis

Jeez, this plane is spinning out of control. Hopefully I can summarize and prevent the need for a black box recovery operation.

Greathouse, you posted in the wrong thread, got chewed out, came back in, apologised for a mis-post. jjimm then copied your post (FTR, I laughed out loud), saoirse dumped some road rage on him, jjimm apologised, asked for clarification, saoirse responded with a retraction (or sumtin’), and I’m still giggling as I write this.

Ok. It would seem that I was a little too cashed the other day and kept scrolling right by jjimm’s post without even noticing it.

[beebee]

i was convicted as an adult of disturbing the peace. (i did it and i’m glad.) and i didn’t spend one second in jail. but i was on probation for 3 1/2 days.

hmm. sure seems strange.

[Inigo_Montoya]

Wow, this could be my kid! IEP and everything. Except when he had the room-clearing tantrums he was sent to the principle’s office to chill out. She then put him to work making posters for aome upcoming event at the school. While he was doing that, the principle chatted with him about this & that. Figured out he was too smart for his own good but not emotionally developed enough to control the resulting frustration. He’s thriving in the gifted program now.

Oh. And tell me I can’t pick him up from school because the cops are coming for him? BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! Step aside Bee-yotch!

[Steve_MB]

@Chotii

As a parent of two almost-7-year-old children, I can only say this: every time I hear a story about something absolutely idiotic and unassailable (pardon me, I mean ‘policy’) in public schools…like the ‘no tolerance’ drug policies that won’t let a kid eat a piece of candy that looks like medicine, much less actually take medicine, even medicine they need (like asthma inhaler)…

(And I’m sure you’ve all read stories like this out of the news…kids expelled over medicine-shaped candy, kids who die because the no tolerance rules won’t let them use their inhalers, or who get suspended over a drawing of a space-man gun…or whatever)

I am so glad I have the chance to homeschool. Yeah, I’ll make some mistakes, but I won’t make them by committee, and I don’t have them down immutable where One-Size-Fits-All Rules Must Be Followed, Or Else.

The purpose of “no tolerance” rules is to relieve the school administration of the necessity of using judgment and accepting responsibility.

IMO, if that’s what they want, they should be treated as employees who are not required to exercise such functions – i.e. they should be paid minimum wage, required to wear “HI MY NAME IS ____” shirts, et cetera.