18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent To Life In...

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

I didn't see solitary confinement blocks in the list. When are they going to start building those?

[Platapus]

When did kids start getting rights?

When I was a kid the only rights were the ones given to us by my parents.

I could just imagine telling my mother, "you can't do that. I have rights"

She would have given me a right all right, followed up by a left.

Isn't it amazing that so many of those stories are not what they are presented as.
Those that are what they are presented as are mainly result of when parents have insisted on strong measures and zero tolerance, then suddenly getting upset when their poor little angels who really honestly never do anything wrong at all get caught up catching flak from the zero tolerance for their wrongdoing.......apart of course from the graduation story where it is parents acting like selfish idiots over a measure that had to be adopted because parents were getting annoyed by parents acting like selfish idiots.

Though I am shocked that the Florida school with that six year old allowed that crap to go on for so long and only sent her to the mental hospital after she kicked a pregnant woman in the belly.
Is there any way thery could have sent the childs parents to the bin as well?

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Isn't it amazing that so many of those stories are not what they are presented as.
Those that are what they are presented as are mainly result of when parents have insisted on strong measures and zero tolerance, then suddenly getting upset when their poor little angels who really honestly never do anything wrong at all get caught up catching flak from the zero tolerance for their wrongdoing.......apart of course from the graduation story where it is parents acting like selfish idiots over a measure that had to be adopted because parents were getting annoyed by parents acting like selfish idiots.

Though I am shocked that the Florida school with that six year old allowed that crap to go on for so long and only sent her to the mental hospital after she kicked a pregnant woman in the belly.
Is there any way thery could have sent the childs parents to the bin as well?

On the other hand some of those stories are a bit concerning, like the honors student who was suspended, or large fines being levied against kids for stuff like swearing and the like. I also do not agree with forcing kids to eat from the cafeteria.

[Torplexed]

Ahh the surveillance society Who knows? Maybe what we're looking at is the extinction of politicians.

In about 10 or 20 years when these kids try to run for office, there probably won't be an incriminating photo, comment or situation that can't be dredged up by their opponent, recorded years earlier by a surveillance camera, cell phone, or facebook page. And vice versa. The result? No one runs.

On the other hand some of those stories are a bit concerning, like the honors student who was suspended, or large fines being levied against kids for stuff like swearing and the like. I also do not agree with forcing kids to eat from the cafeteria.

On the first two its discipline and safety measures that parents support until their own kids run foul of them, on the third the article has parents in favour and against the policy plus other schools and their approaches to the problem which may be better or worse than the one in question.
Then again I am of the age where you had no choice and no menu options and you had better eat every last scrap of gristle on your plate or the teachers would go medieaval on you for wasting such good food while the poor starving africans would walk a hundred miles for the chance to be blessed with a fine bit of gristle like that. So people complaining about having to use the cateteria or about not being allowed a can of soda in their lunchbox are just moaning little gits.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Then again I am of the age where you had no choice and no menu options and you had better eat every last scrap of gristle on your plate or the teachers would go medieaval on you for wasting such good food while the poor starving africans would walk a hundred miles for the chance to be blessed with a fine bit of gristle like that. So people complaining about having to use the cateteria or about not being allowed a can of soda in their lunchbox are just moaning little gits.

When I was in grades 1 to 6 at lunch time we formed a line. Cook rationed food and headmistress rationed salads. It was quite clear that you were expected to eat them...

If you were sixth grader and headmistress was in good mood you even had chance to say how much salad you want. She was unfortunately deaf to words 'no salad, please'...