Posted on 05/29/2011 8:47:39 PM PDT by cycjec
COURTLAND—A Southampton Middle School student was suspended Thursday for opening an exterior door for a visitor.
“Students are not allowed to open the doors, and if anyone does, they will be suspended,” said Dr. Wayne K. Smith, executive director of administration and personnel.
A districtwide policy prohibiting students and staff from opening doors to the outside was recently adopted after a $10,800 security system was installed at the middle school, Southampton High School, Southampton Technical Career Center and Nottoway, Meherrin and Capron elementary schools. Riverdale Elementary had a similar system installed when it was built three years ago.
All of the schools’ doors are locked during the day. Visitors must ring a buzzer and look into a camera before office personnel can let them in.
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We need to get back to normal where that is considered manners.
Hmmm... so a kid broke a posted rule and is now being punished in accordance with that rule... aside from pupils using this as an easy way to get time off from school, what is the problem here?
It has become so ridiculous that schools are put in lockdown because some kid shows up with a water pistol or a picture of a gun.
Bottom line is, we are not educating anymore. We are teaching kids to be wimps.
I wish we could get back to normal.
In today’s world, especially in schools, nobody should be allowed access by an unauthorized invidual. Sad but true. There are way too many kooks.
The building that I work in is “security” controlled. It is often awkard if I am outside, waiting for a visitor to “ring in” when I could let him/her in myself.
But it is what it is.
I don’t know if the person in question should be suspended or merely reprimanded...but I don’t live in the area.
It might have been a rule that made sense for that area, and that school. If it was a posted rule and the child can read, I don’t see that this is a story, except one reminding everyone that America has changed since most of us were young. If some random shooter, aggrieved divorced parent, or pedophile had gotten in that way, imagine the outrage here directed at the school for not having enough common sense to secure entrances.
I couldn't forget how much school seemed like prison when I attended 25 years before. I don't know how the kids today can even stay sane. It really IS a prison now, even looks like one with all the cameras and security. I guess it's to get them accustomed to the new police states of America.
The problem is that absurd rules and laws breed contempt for the rule of law, whether they are enforced rigorously, which makes those subject to them contemptuous of all legal authority, or ignored, which makes those subject to them perceive rules and laws to be of no consequence.
Random shooters can just pick the kids off as they leave the school. Pedophiles would have better luck trolling facebook. Half the parents are divorced and probably half the teachers. If you are going to lock them up at school, why not just lock kids up from birth until they are adults?
Are you asking me, or telling me?
As far as I could see from the article, the kids weren’t locked in like in a penitentiary, and when I was in school we weren’t allowed to leave the grounds, sometimes not the building either.
The kid broke the rules, however unfortunate it is that this school district thinks it needs to have them. I wouldn’t want to send my kids there either, but that’s the way it is for the people of that district and, like everyone has to, they have to make the best of it, change it, or find some alternative.
What the hell has happened to the spirit of the American kid? 30 yrs ago Anyone imposing some of the rules kids swallow today would have be mocked and derided to his face...t o h i s f a c e! They tried sometimes vis a vis smoking etc but all hell would break loose. Mostly they had the attitude “you’re here to learn. if you do not take advantage of this opportunity you will regret it.” A wise attitude.
Being prepped for prison life. Big Brother life of zero-tolerance policies, pc groupthink and insane laws.
Does this mean they are unlocked at night?
Or locked at all times like all prisons?
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