I just got suspended from school for a week(read why, im ready to explode >:().

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Vesayen
So the highpoint of your life would be telling your friends that you covinced someone who got suspended by an idiot administrator to go to the media heh ?

No, as Asher can tell you, there have been much more notable things that have happened in my life. It would just be something different that can keep me interesting for a few days.

[Flandrien]

I have been reading a lot of these zero tolerance stories lately.
Check out the This is true site.

[Shi Huangdi]

Schools are recently acting really weird. A Southern California school district recently banned running outside for fear someone might hurt themselves by falling on the ground.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Schools are recently acting really weird. A Southern California school district recently banned running outside for fear someone might hurt themselves by falling on the ground.

That's why you kids are so wimpy nowadays. buncha momma's boys.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by GP
You need to use a push/pull strategy.

What you want is to get back in school. You can and should use publicity as a weapon against the school. But if there is a face-saving way to just apologize and slime back into school, you should do that.

So I would hit them hard...with the publicity and political pressure.* but be willing to throw in the outrage if they will let you back in. That is the smart way to play it.

It sounds like the principle is technically right, but you've got some mitigating factors in terms of
-spentness of the round
-Sunday
-going in to HELP A TEACHER
-perfect record before this.

So I think a tough fight them attitude...followed by a negotiated apology will get you back in.


*Parents need to call/fax letters to school board and representatives.

This looks like a good approach. If it begins to effect any scholarships or entrance anywhere then you've gotta pull out the stops.

[Seneca]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Yes... it is insane.

Get your parents to threaten a law suit.

Yeah, take even more money out of education.

[Immortal Wombat]

Shhh, its american education. It can't get worse.

[Immortal Wombat]

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[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, take even more money out of education.

Seeing as the US spends more per-pupil than ANY other country in the world, I think they can afford it.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Maestro
I have been reading a lot of these zero tolerance stories lately.
Check out the This is true site.

Meanwhile we just decided that Sikh children are allowed to wear their ceremonial daggers in class. What was that about America as the land of the free?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by GP


That's why you kids are so wimpy nowadays. buncha momma's boys.

Hah! At my elementary school there were fistfights every day, and the teachers didn't even try to stop them...

[Solly]

At my comprehensive, some of the teachers were involved in the fistfights

[Immortal Wombat]

at my infant school, the teachers tried to break it up, and got their arses kicked...

[KrazyHorse]

At my school we had to walk a mile in the snow just to have a fistfight...

[chequita guevara]

At my school we would have fights just to see who was allowed to have the next fight.