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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 08:11 PM Original message |
Want to hear what happens when you combine a zero tolerance policy and a idiot elementary admin. ? |
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dembotoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. zero tolerence = zero brains |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Amen to that! |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. And it's a direct correlation: the fewer brains, the greater the fondness for "Zero Tolerance".nm |
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The Inquisitive (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. absurd |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. You obviously haven't met the kind of fools they leave running the schools these days... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 07:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Thank you. Not enough people recognize that very point. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 07:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I only graduated from school in 2000, I still remember it pretty vividly. |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 08:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Yup. I work with some fantastic people in public schools. But the amount of work |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 08:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I sure as hell can't recommend the ones here in FL... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. :) I get quite a few kids up from Florida. Their special ed. plans are usually a mess. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-19-07 02:34 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. My high school was SUPPOSEDLY one of the top 200 in the nation... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-19-07 06:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I've had several friends who had kids in the so called gifted classes.. |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-19-07 08:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Yeah, that was me too. |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. Enter Manifestation Determination.... |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. I know someone who got expelled from school because of the zero tolerance policy. |
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SeattleGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. That totally sucks! |
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AwakeAtLast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. Didn't the principal just supercede an IEP? |
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carly denise pt deux (855 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. they did overreact.............but..... |
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Bennyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-15-07 09:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I have to agree..... |
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troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
12. What we are teaching children: |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-18-07 02:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Makes perfect sense to me... |
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PRETZEL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
13. no it won't ever change |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
14. I also blame some parents that will file a lawsuit for anything.. |
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PRETZEL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 09:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. That, unfortunately, is the rub |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-16-07 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
16. That principal suffers from a mental disease I call "punishism." |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-17-07 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. Zero tolerance (orthodoxy) is an excuse to stop thinking. |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-19-07 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
27. Is your principal always such a dufus? |
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spacelady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-19-07 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
28. School "zero tolerance" just like employee "random drug tests" |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-20-07 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
29. I call them "ACAs," ass-covering administrators |
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