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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:34 PM Original message |
College Suspends Four Students Over Obama Display |
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daninthemoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. damn. i sure hope this doesn't start a trend. |
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movonne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Keep an eye on these so called Christian schools...what I have |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Sounds to me like the school did the right thing and doesn't support what happened. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. The Christian Dominionsits call themselves Christian....so we know that one cannot |
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ann_american2004 (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
39. ITA- Hitler was 'Christian' but he was really the devil incarnate |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. I went to one of those. |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. Please when the first thing someone tells you is their religion... back away ASAP |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 12:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
51. What's weird is that George Fox was a QUAKER. This is a Quaker school. |
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wvbygod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
53. If this was a muslim school I suppose you would say watch out for them mulims? |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. a 'Christian' college, huh. I shouldn't be surprised, but somehow it never gets old. |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. What did the college do wrong here? |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
22. If this was an effigy of Bush they would have been jailed... |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. I'm talking about the Christian part. Kids who go to a Christian school are supposedly |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:19 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. Many kids who go to Christian schools do so because it's what their parents want. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. It's a Quaker college. |
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KSDiva (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. I went to a Quaker college and that wouldn't have been |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. It's an "Evangelical Friends" school. |
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ann_american2004 (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:09 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. Evangelicals? Alaska Yearly Meeting? Okay that is scary |
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Ms. Toad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 10:37 AM Response to Reply #28 |
46. Relax, |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #28 |
52. They sound like a RW fundie sect of Quakers and not "normal" Quakers. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 10:18 AM Response to Reply #2 |
43. the Monica Goodling brand of Christian ethics |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. What the fuck? |
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torbird (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. There are stupid kids everywhere |
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torbird (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. There are stupid kids everywhere |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. "and authorities have not disclosed any motivations for last week's incident" |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Apparently they teach them that you get a long term suspension if you |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. How about expulsion? How about printing their names? For all intents and purposes, they |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. That was my thought when I read it in the paper this morning. |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Printing their names? |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. IF these kids were minors, then perhaps I could see hiding their names..but if |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:01 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Student records, even at the college level, are protected by federal law. |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. That is up to journalists and law enforcement, not schools. |
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daninthemoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. That was my first re-action, but they weren't just suspended. They |
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marew (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
12. I just sent the school a letter of complaint! |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I agree with you. They should have been expelled instead of suspended. |
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Minimus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
14. As a Quaker this really saddens me |
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merwin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Could you describe what you think this school is teaching that causes you to say this? |
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Minimus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #19 |
50. As a Quaker I hoped that the principles of the religion |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
24. The students should be expelled. There's nothing Christian about |
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D23MIURG23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
29. They did what? |
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trashcanistanista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. The hatred is being exposed. |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
32. Reasons for suspension vs. expulsion |
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downindixie (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
33. Everyone rails against zero tolerance,but |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. Hmmm. |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
37. "Fox" Univertisy? Really? |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends. |
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ann_american2004 (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-01-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
38. I'd like those 'Christian' student's names please. |
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TaffyMoon (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 03:40 AM Response to Original message |
42. Expulsion should be the least of it. |
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goforit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
44. christian doobies strike again. |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
45. Bigots.. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
47. Never mind that school officials and the majority of students condemned the act |
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Birdiesmom (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 11:23 AM Response to Reply #47 |
48. Lydia's right -- blame the students, not the school. |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-02-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
49. "Burning Bush" = arrest & prison. Lynching Obama = suspension from school |
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