Ravenwood - 05/18/05 07:15 AM
Two girls in Dekalb County Georgia will miss their baccalaureate, but will be allowed to attend graduation ceremonies with their classmates. Their crime was using a butter knife to cut a cake. The school's zero-intelligence policy mandated that they each receive a 10-day suspension. One of the girls, Ashley Pickens, said that the teacher who busted them threatened her with arrest, WSB reports.
"He said it really didn't matter [that it was used for a cake]," Pickens said. "[He said] it's a knife on school grounds, and you have to be written up for it--you ought to be glad we didn't have you arrested."These so-called "zero tolerance" policies trigger the RCOB. I can only hope that these kids grow up realizing that "zero tolerance" policies are a product of moronic school administrators and teachers and that the real world doesn't work this way.
Category: Left-wing Conspiracy
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And these morons flatter themselves they can teach our children judgement?
Posted by: Brett at May 18, 2005 8:48 AMHow can they teach something that they so obviously lack?
Posted by: Yosemite Sam at May 18, 2005 9:35 AMMy wife and I keep talking about moving to Georgia cause in almost all other aspects it seems like a great place to live (we spend a considerable amount of time there already anyway). However, Atlanta and the Atlanta area seems to always have more of these moronic-zero-tolerance-policy-lets-appease-the-soccer-moms-without-thinking type ordinances than anywhere else.
I'm in England, sad to say, and this brings up one of my bug bears, how do kids today make plastic model kits?
Over here no-one under 16 can buy a knife (too sharp) or glue (nasty solvents)
Keep it simple, prosecute the bad guys don't persecute the good guys
Posted by: Chris at May 18, 2005 11:54 AMI guess I am getting old when I start lamenting "the good old days", but how can I help it when I read stories like this. What has happened to our country? Oh yeah, liberals...
Countertop,
Mostly that's Fulton and Dekalb (Atlanta) and sometimes Gwinett (Northeast). Cobb (Northwest) was a joy to live in. It had some rural elements (some of my neighbors had horses), but the shopping malls and highway were just minutes away. Downtown Atlanta was either 10 minutes or 2 hours away (depending on the time of day).
Of course, I did live just outside Kennesaw (mandatory gun ownership).
Posted by: Ravenwood at May 18, 2005 2:17 PMWhat I would like to know is what College of Idiots gave that teacher a degree that supposedly qualifies him to teach children? What a total jackass!
Posted by: Robert Garrard at May 18, 2005 6:33 PM"Oh yeah, liberals... "
Hey Cashane, this kind of crap comes from both sides of the spectrum, I'm afraid. (Think Drug War). Now, I also miss the good old days, as people were more LIBERTARIAN back then, whether they knew the term or not.
Also, Atlanta does not frickin count as part of Georgia, just as Miami is not part of The South. Atlanta is just an airport you go through on your way to Hell, if you end up there (Atlanta, I mean)
Posted by: Jimmy Antley at May 18, 2005 10:27 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
