Posted on 10/11/2004 10:47:14 AM PDT by esryle
WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A North Carolina teenager may have to go to jail for using foul language with a high school teacher.
Glenn Gattis and his parents don't deny that he cursed or has had other disciplinary problems at Ashley High School in Wilmington. But they said the misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct is an overreaction.
The 17-year-old Gattis said he became frustrated and used bad language when he got in trouble for being late to class again. He said he was ultimately stopped by deputies working as school resource officers, who gave him a citation for using language meant to provoke violence. He was also suspended for three days.
Gattis' mother said she could understand if her son had to serve detention at school. But he could get up to 30 days in jail. The family has hired a lawyer to fight the charge.
School officials aren't commenting.
I trust that since foul language is illegal, there won't be any of it used by the officers or guards in the jail where this kid is to be confined??
Probably not. Most juvenile detention facilities (juveniles seldom go to jail) do not condone foul language from the staff.
You're right. I mean, isn't asphalt a medical term?
The way he used the word would have fit right into anatomy class.
jail the punk.
Much of this stuff goes on in the bus & during recess.
(/sarcasm from an undiagnosed, but very medically literate former sufferer of said condition.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF the "medikal (in it fur a buck) cummunity" !!!!!!!!!
A-holes. They should pitch for the Astros!)
(OooooooH...Savage said A$$ again...let's dock her some championship points!!!)
This child has problems that have nothing to do with swearing. The time to find out what they are and try to fix them is now, before it slips away.
Perfect, just perfect.
Jail time for cussing...? What the he!! has happened to this Country.
This, shamefully is an NC news story...
Wait a minute..do we AGREE on something????
I'd bet we agree on plenty.
But it's no fun slapping each other on the back.
I'm sure you will irritate me about something soon.....;)
I'll do my best.
:^}
Hold it right there, Mister. That'll be a citation for you.
I don't curse in front of my children, or even my own mother or siblings! Sometimes I'm out with the kids ( they're 11 and 15 ) somewhere and I'll run into a friend. If they curse I just cringe inside. My kids will give me that look, total disapproval !! It's such a bad example to set, not to mention lack of discipline if you can't even censor your language in front of children, IMO. The only word I ever heard my Dad say was damn, and that's when he accidentally fell off the roof !
Ah,.....U.N. British anti-social laws in effect
in U.S. colonial states.
Freedom of speech?
Instead of the American Bar Association how
about using a American Bar of Soap in the Mouth.
It work on me. It will work on others.
And yes I agree with you about the old
monarchy wanting to rule the colonies again...
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