Title: Zero Tolerance For Thought Crimes
Description: Brainwashing the youth into tyranny
Description: Brainwashing the youth into tyranny
mynameis - August 23, 2007 03:38 PM (GMT)
Boy suspended for drawing gun
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Ariz. school suspends boy for sketching gun
Posted 19h 38m ago
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — School officials suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.
The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted.
"The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said the boy's mother, Paula Mosteller.
The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported that the boy said he didn't intend for the picture to be a threat.
Administrators of Payne Junior High in nearby Chandler suspended the boy on Monday for five days but later reduced it to three days.
The boy's father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the school to discuss his son's punishment, school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves in 1999. Mosteller said he was offended by the reference.
Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch was "absolutely considered a threat," and that threatening words or pictures are punishable.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-0...on_N.htm?csp=34
Boy suspended for pointing chicken finger like gun
(person) by RevJim23 (1.4 y) (print) ? 2 C!s Fri Feb 02 2001 at 4:20:58
Eight year-old Christopher Kissinger from Jonesboro, Arkansas was suspended from school last week for pointing a chicken finger from the school's cafeteria at a teacher and saying "Pow, pow, pow." The boy received a three day suspension.
The Jonesboro School District has a zero tolerance policy against weapons, and the chicken finger apparently violated that policy in this incident. According to South Elementary principal Dan Sullivan, the punishment "depends on the tone, the demeanor, and in some manner you judge the intent. It's not the object in the hand, it's the thought in the mind. Is a plastic fork worse than a metal fork? Is a pencil a weapon?"
Unfortunately, Christopher's case isn't unique. Zero tolerance policies against weapons in schools have gone too far since various high-profile incidents of violence in high schools throughout the US. Ben Ratner was expelled from Blue Ridge Middle School in Virginia for violating his school's weapons policy after he took a knife away from a friend who was threatening suicide. A 15-year-old Florida student was suspended because his nail clippers included a file.
I'm all for keeping weapons out of schools, but shouldn't we wait for students to bring the weapon before we suspend them?
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=935001
Boy suspended from school for hair being to short!
Your Two Cents Required: Boy Suspended From School Hair Being Too Short
7th grader Derek Jackson says he is back in his normal classes today following his placement in in-school-suspension for having a haircut that was too short; something the school says was both a violation of the school dress-code and a distraction.
Derek's mother, Amanda, says she met with Bailey Middle School Principal Dr. Julia Fletcher, and Dr. Fletcher told her that the issue was "not worth the fight".
Leaders of Austin's NAACP are convinced the suspension of Derek Jackson is racially motivated. Nelson Linder with the NAACP says there's no other reason he can think of why a 7th grader would get in-school suspension for having hair that's too short.
"We think that Derek is just a metaphor for how people are treated," he said. "For whatever reason, African-Americans are put under very high scrutiny...gang issues, all kind of what I call 'racist projections'. So I think when a black kid has a haircut that they might think is inappropriate, you're seeing phobias from people.
http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=85578
Boy Suspended for Describing Gay Family
Some anti-gay activists would claim that homosexual activists have taken over our public schools and clamp down on any attempts to criticize homosexuality - but is that true? No. In reality, it can be very difficult for kids in public schools to discuss homosexuality in a positive way and treat it as if it were normal. That's what a 7-year-old Louisiana boy discovered when he explained to a friend that his mother is gay and that this means that his mother likes other women.
Planet Out reports:
Later that day, Marcus' mother, Sharon Huff, was concerned after receiving a call from the assistant principal, who informed her that Marcus was in trouble for using a word so bad that it couldn't be repeated over the phone. But her concern, Huff said, "was nothing compared to the shock I felt when my little boy came home and told me that his teacher had told him his family is a dirty word."
[Teacher Terry L.] Bethea said Marcus "told the other child that gay is when a girl likes a girl. This kind of discussion is not acceptable in my room," she continued. "I feel that parents should explain things of this nature to their own children in their own way." Marcus's final humiliation came during a one-hour "behavior clinic," where he was obliged to write repeatedly: "I will never use the word 'gay' in school again," the ACLU reports.
To call this entire situation ridiculous is an understatement. The ACLU wants the boy's record cleared and official to apologize - not only to the boy, but also to his parents. I agree that this should be done - and I also think that the teachers and administrators involved should attend their own "behavior clinic" where they learn how not to be such incredible doofuses. Maybe, with a lot of work and dedication, they'll somehow manage and then deserve to be in school again.
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/047353.htm
Essay leads to disorderly conduct charge
Overton | Illinois | Sunday, April 29th, 2007
As reported in the Northwest Herald, a student has been suspended from school and charged with disorderly conduct for writing an essay with “nonspecific references to violence.”
Last week during a drive to North Carolina I listened to an audiobook version of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” a book I’d always meant to read. The recent death of the author brought it to my attention again. So it goes. I bring it up because I recall some students at my own high school, over twenty years ago, talking about it as assigned reading in an English class. That book has some pretty specific references to violence and some coarse language to boot.
Also mentioned in the article is that the English teacher in this particular case had apparently said it was okay to use foul language in the assignment. That doesn’t suggest that the teacher was expecting, for example, a rosy puff piece about a Beloved Leader.
The part that scares me the most was this quote from the story: “‘You can never be overly cautious with any type of these situations,’ [Cary Police Chief Ron] Delelio said.” Thank goodness I don’t live in his town. I can’t imagine what I’d ever write that wouldn’t raise red flags based on that standard and still be worth reading. If you can’t be overly cautious, perhaps they should simply outlaw writing altogether.
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2007/04/2...a2608338443.txt
http://zerointelligence.net/page/2/
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/230807gun.htm
More available here.
http://www.zerointelligence.net/
Thousands more: http://www.zerointelligence.net/
Ariz. school suspends boy for sketching gun
Posted 19h 38m ago
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — School officials suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching what looked like a gun, saying the action posed a threat to his classmates.
The boy's parents said the drawing was a harmless doodle and school officials overreacted.
"The school made him feel like he committed a crime. They are doing more damage than good," said the boy's mother, Paula Mosteller.
The drawing did not show blood, bullets, injuries or target any human, the parents said. And the East Valley Tribune reported that the boy said he didn't intend for the picture to be a threat.
Administrators of Payne Junior High in nearby Chandler suspended the boy on Monday for five days but later reduced it to three days.
The boy's father, Ben Mosteller, said that when he went to the school to discuss his son's punishment, school officials mentioned the seriousness of the issue and talked about the massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School, where two teenagers shot and killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves in 1999. Mosteller said he was offended by the reference.
Chandler district spokesman Terry Locke said the crude sketch was "absolutely considered a threat," and that threatening words or pictures are punishable.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-0...on_N.htm?csp=34
Boy suspended for pointing chicken finger like gun
(person) by RevJim23 (1.4 y) (print) ? 2 C!s Fri Feb 02 2001 at 4:20:58
Eight year-old Christopher Kissinger from Jonesboro, Arkansas was suspended from school last week for pointing a chicken finger from the school's cafeteria at a teacher and saying "Pow, pow, pow." The boy received a three day suspension.
The Jonesboro School District has a zero tolerance policy against weapons, and the chicken finger apparently violated that policy in this incident. According to South Elementary principal Dan Sullivan, the punishment "depends on the tone, the demeanor, and in some manner you judge the intent. It's not the object in the hand, it's the thought in the mind. Is a plastic fork worse than a metal fork? Is a pencil a weapon?"
Unfortunately, Christopher's case isn't unique. Zero tolerance policies against weapons in schools have gone too far since various high-profile incidents of violence in high schools throughout the US. Ben Ratner was expelled from Blue Ridge Middle School in Virginia for violating his school's weapons policy after he took a knife away from a friend who was threatening suicide. A 15-year-old Florida student was suspended because his nail clippers included a file.
I'm all for keeping weapons out of schools, but shouldn't we wait for students to bring the weapon before we suspend them?
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=935001
Boy suspended from school for hair being to short!
Your Two Cents Required: Boy Suspended From School Hair Being Too Short
7th grader Derek Jackson says he is back in his normal classes today following his placement in in-school-suspension for having a haircut that was too short; something the school says was both a violation of the school dress-code and a distraction.
Derek's mother, Amanda, says she met with Bailey Middle School Principal Dr. Julia Fletcher, and Dr. Fletcher told her that the issue was "not worth the fight".
Leaders of Austin's NAACP are convinced the suspension of Derek Jackson is racially motivated. Nelson Linder with the NAACP says there's no other reason he can think of why a 7th grader would get in-school suspension for having hair that's too short.
"We think that Derek is just a metaphor for how people are treated," he said. "For whatever reason, African-Americans are put under very high scrutiny...gang issues, all kind of what I call 'racist projections'. So I think when a black kid has a haircut that they might think is inappropriate, you're seeing phobias from people.
http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php?t=85578
Boy Suspended for Describing Gay Family
Some anti-gay activists would claim that homosexual activists have taken over our public schools and clamp down on any attempts to criticize homosexuality - but is that true? No. In reality, it can be very difficult for kids in public schools to discuss homosexuality in a positive way and treat it as if it were normal. That's what a 7-year-old Louisiana boy discovered when he explained to a friend that his mother is gay and that this means that his mother likes other women.
Planet Out reports:
Later that day, Marcus' mother, Sharon Huff, was concerned after receiving a call from the assistant principal, who informed her that Marcus was in trouble for using a word so bad that it couldn't be repeated over the phone. But her concern, Huff said, "was nothing compared to the shock I felt when my little boy came home and told me that his teacher had told him his family is a dirty word."
[Teacher Terry L.] Bethea said Marcus "told the other child that gay is when a girl likes a girl. This kind of discussion is not acceptable in my room," she continued. "I feel that parents should explain things of this nature to their own children in their own way." Marcus's final humiliation came during a one-hour "behavior clinic," where he was obliged to write repeatedly: "I will never use the word 'gay' in school again," the ACLU reports.
To call this entire situation ridiculous is an understatement. The ACLU wants the boy's record cleared and official to apologize - not only to the boy, but also to his parents. I agree that this should be done - and I also think that the teachers and administrators involved should attend their own "behavior clinic" where they learn how not to be such incredible doofuses. Maybe, with a lot of work and dedication, they'll somehow manage and then deserve to be in school again.
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/047353.htm
Essay leads to disorderly conduct charge
Overton | Illinois | Sunday, April 29th, 2007
As reported in the Northwest Herald, a student has been suspended from school and charged with disorderly conduct for writing an essay with “nonspecific references to violence.”
Last week during a drive to North Carolina I listened to an audiobook version of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five,” a book I’d always meant to read. The recent death of the author brought it to my attention again. So it goes. I bring it up because I recall some students at my own high school, over twenty years ago, talking about it as assigned reading in an English class. That book has some pretty specific references to violence and some coarse language to boot.
Also mentioned in the article is that the English teacher in this particular case had apparently said it was okay to use foul language in the assignment. That doesn’t suggest that the teacher was expecting, for example, a rosy puff piece about a Beloved Leader.
The part that scares me the most was this quote from the story: “‘You can never be overly cautious with any type of these situations,’ [Cary Police Chief Ron] Delelio said.” Thank goodness I don’t live in his town. I can’t imagine what I’d ever write that wouldn’t raise red flags based on that standard and still be worth reading. If you can’t be overly cautious, perhaps they should simply outlaw writing altogether.
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2007/04/2...a2608338443.txt
http://zerointelligence.net/page/2/
jfk - August 23, 2007 03:51 PM (GMT)
Lin Kuei - August 24, 2007 08:05 AM (GMT)
Here we see societal contradictions in full play. What do kids watch on TV and play on video games? - people with guns and the glory which comes with it. Geez some of the pictures I drew when i was at school would have got me thrown in a goulag today it seems. I feel so sorry for that kid! :blink: