SoundofSilence
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Let's not forget this humdinger...
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Virginia sixth grader suspended for a year and prosecuted for not having marijuana
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Hari Seldon
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The stupidity over drugs is not isolated to the US.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...rn-to-her-school-quebec-judge-rules-1.2997368
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Was it a caprese salad, by chance?
Also noting that he compared it with a picture that he found online. Damn fine work, detective. Damn fine.
Also noting that he compared it with a picture that he found online. Damn fine work, detective. Damn fine.
benjipwns
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It didn't look like one picture, but it did look like another!
the unfortunate confluence of of an overzealous school and prosecutor. The sad thing is, the kid is more likely to become a drug addict now than he ever was before this incident.
C'mon, this sort of thing isn't isloated to Virginia. Virginia isn't more "ass-backwards" than the mean of the country.
C'mon, this sort of thing isn't isloated to Virginia. Virginia isn't more "ass-backwards" than the mean of the country.
n00bsauce87
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BreezyLimbo
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Ronald Reagan still has his legacy over school students intact
Why is that shaped like a gun
Karsticles
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Not for kids...
benjipwns
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I'm not sending my kids to any school with a D.A.R.E. program!
EatinOlives
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I went through a DARE program. Not only was it a complete waste of time, it replaced PE too.
Taking away kids' exercise periods was probably more unhealthy at the end of the day. Yes, people still did whatever drug they wanted when they got to high school.
Taking away kids' exercise periods was probably more unhealthy at the end of the day. Yes, people still did whatever drug they wanted when they got to high school.
It's a modified program. We'll teach kids how to correctly do bong hits so they don't embarrass themselves in front of their friends.
Outside of development countries, there is no place I'd be more scared to raise children in than the USA.
When I was a middle school kid there was a short period when we used to carry powdered sugar in plastic bags that we would snort to look like "drug lords". Horrible to think I'd been expelled for that in th US.
When I was a middle school kid there was a short period when we used to carry powdered sugar in plastic bags that we would snort to look like "drug lords". Horrible to think I'd been expelled for that in th US.
How... how is this possible?
I mean, to be honest, being suspended from that place actually sounds like an improvement.
But seriously. This thread is hurting me. Punishing children for doing harmless things children do that are completely unrelated to school and learning.
I mean, even without the ridiculousness, a whole fucking year suspension for pot? For a kid posessing pot, you're going to potentially ruin his education and his future? How is that logical at all!
Sho_Nuff82
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My damn sides. "This looks sort of like what I think what a marijuana leaf would look like based on a quick google search. Doesn't matter if it's real or not, throw the book at him. If I'm wrong, too fucking bad."
Just lol
The Albatross
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So, uhh, even if it was a marijuana leaf and he had a lighter, what would he intend to do with that leaf...?
spookyfish
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It's more like the War on Common Sense. Zero Tolerance needs to be reexamined.
Sho_Nuff82
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Not just expelled, arrested.
Sho_Nuff82
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"I don't care if that bag tested 100% sucrose. TEST IT AGAIN!"
benjipwns
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Light it in the bathroom and smoke the ganja, clearly, that's how you do it right? Probably while also doing Jenkem and Krokodil.
This is how I'm reading it, these idiots jumped the gun and now they're trying to cover themselves from getting in shit by falling back on the most literal interperetation of their dumb policies.
radioactivez0r
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I took 2 things away from this:
1) The deputy the school has available to them, ostensibly for incidents such as this, has no idea what marijuana looks like.
2) The kid has learned nothing, except perhaps not to trust people in positions of authority.
1) The deputy the school has available to them, ostensibly for incidents such as this, has no idea what marijuana looks like.
2) The kid has learned nothing, except perhaps not to trust people in positions of authority.
benjipwns
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There are none, you wouldn't believe what laws the penguins on Antarctica are passing these days.
Stumpokapow
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dumbass zero tolerance policies are basically the gimme space on the libertarian bingo card, hahaha.
What about other planets? Maybe going to Mars won't be so bad...
GuitarAtomik
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I mean at some point you have to step back, and assess the situation, and realize you're keeping an 11 year old child out of school for 6 months over a leaf that he may or may not of pretended was marijuana. I feel like any sane person would realize that's ridiculous.
Blame the war on drugs and the complete gutting of mental health and public education in the 70s and 80s.
The result is stupidity and lack of common sense and hardlined attitudes as the next generation gains administrative power 25-40 years later.
Derekloffin
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Another victory for zero intelligence policy!
Agent Gibbs
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Sane people do, that is the point, insane people work at that school, police department and local courts
BannedEpisode
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When I was in elementary school I set off baking soda and vinegar packets in the school dumpster, argued with a kid over who could shoot the other with a BB gun, and pretended sugar was cocaine with my friends at lunch. (DARE did a good job of supplying funny material for 10 year olds).
I feel like I would be in prison today if I wasn't in elementary during the nineties.
I feel like I would be in prison today if I wasn't in elementary during the nineties.
Nah, I went to a school that was like 95% white and this kind of thing happened to everyone.
One time, a kid who got beat up -- like, someone jumped him and just started going to town on him while he turtled up and cried -- got suspended/police escorted from school/sent to mandatory behavior councilor (same punishment for both guys).
The justification? In the exact words of the vice principal "It takes two to fight." (Both kids were white.)
Never mind that that shit wasn't a fight -- it was a mugging. Fucking ridiculous. As is this story.
Sho_Nuff82
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This is probably anecdotal, but I've never heard anything positive about public school administration, from either teachers or students. What are they teaching these people in Higher Ed courses? And why is it so toxic to...everything?
This is basically an overblown case of this, right?
I feel like everyone has probably known that kid who bullshits around about having fucked with alcohol and drugs and girls on the playground, but obviously was just talking out his ass. To think that it's been taken so far is crazy though.
I feel like everyone has probably known that kid who bullshits around about having fucked with alcohol and drugs and girls on the playground, but obviously was just talking out his ass. To think that it's been taken so far is crazy though.
CloudyTuba
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I'm imagining how this would have been handled at my elementary school.
After confirming that he doesnt have shit, they would have just taken the lighter away, given him a stern talking to, and told his parents he was being stupid. Maybe a weeks suspension if the kid was an asshole. And this was at a private religious school that my grandma sent me to.
So somehow I'm thinking this reaction is a bit extreme.
On a no-tolerance sidenote, a poor guy in my highschool got suspended for being punched. No, not for fighting back or even for trying to protect himself. For getting punched. He specifically did not react at all because he knew of the no tolerance policy and was trying to respect it as much as physically possible. There were 20+ people there to back him up but the admins didnt care. Half the school was upset about that one.
After confirming that he doesnt have shit, they would have just taken the lighter away, given him a stern talking to, and told his parents he was being stupid. Maybe a weeks suspension if the kid was an asshole. And this was at a private religious school that my grandma sent me to.
So somehow I'm thinking this reaction is a bit extreme.
On a no-tolerance sidenote, a poor guy in my highschool got suspended for being punched. No, not for fighting back or even for trying to protect himself. For getting punched. He specifically did not react at all because he knew of the no tolerance policy and was trying to respect it as much as physically possible. There were 20+ people there to back him up but the admins didnt care. Half the school was upset about that one.
benjipwns
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Are you insinuating that the wonderful public servants of Bedford Middle School are mentally ill?
How best to avoid lawsuits. And gobble up as much education money as possible. Teachers just get in the way, and students really get in the way of running a smooth school operation.
"Mug" the parents in a reciprocal manner. Send a message. Its the Chicago way.
Well if the school suspended a kid for marijuana possession, and the officer cited him with the magistrate for marijuana possession, despite the fact that the field test showed that what he had was not marijuana, or a leaf from a marijuana plant, but a normal leaf... possibly?
Zvonimir Boban
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Sounds about right.
benjipwns
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Yeah, but they haven't lab tested it yet after seven months. Only three field tests. It could still be some kind of secret marijuana that fools field tests.
DiscoJer
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And yet, schools in the 80s weren't nearly as draconian as today. Hell during the ninja weapon craze, almost every boy in school had some sort of martials arts thing - nunchucks, thrrowing stars, etc. Pocket knives were ubiquitous
I remember in elementary school 5th gade, so I guess 1980, we had a revolutionary war re-enactor come in to class complete with his gun.
And I knew at least three drug dealers in high school. None of them ever ran into trouble. One of them got caught after high school, saw him in the news. But there were no searches of lockers or drug sniffing dogs.
And if you got into a fight with another kid, you weren't even suspended. Hell, a lot of times you didn't even go to the principal's office, the teachers just told you to knock it off.
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