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| February 11, 2006
Posted on 02/11/2006 4:11:34 PM PST by Revel
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To: SoftballMominVA
Sounds like Momma has made it something other than a "private matter".
The school folks really can't hide behind that kind of argument anymore. In fact, the Momma probably ought to show up at the school tomorrow morning (after writing out a child endangerment complaint at the nearest station house), along with the cops, and haul these yahoos out of there before they get a chance to mess with more children.
It's literally amazing to watch how fast cops will gravitate to the "other side" of a question once somebody has filed a formal complaint.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:41:51 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: Know your rights
That's not a discussion of what events unfolded. The school is bound to only release the bare facts.
To: muawiyah
And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that if her son is clearly in the right she will do just that. If the story is other than what is being reported she will quietly go her way.
Seriously, don't you think there are attorneys calling her all day to try to line them up as clients? Follow the money
To: Know your rights
"Irrelevant ... this one didn't."
Not irrelevant, as it could have been, and needed to be checked out, not ignored. You'd probably be yelling for some heads to roll if it happened at your kid's school, and they'd ignored it the first time, too.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:45:19 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: SoftballMominVA
That's not a discussion of what events unfolded.Wrong; what he said about the sugar is the only legally relevant "event."
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:46:24 PM PST
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Willie Green
Well what kind of 12-year-old kid shows a bag of powdered sugar to his friends in the restroom?
Sounds like something a 12 year old kid very well might do. He did tell them it was a joke.
To: Old Student
it could have been, and needed to be checked outAnd once it was checked and found to be sugar, police/court involvement should have ended.
347
posted on
02/12/2006 6:47:51 PM PST
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: SoftballMominVA
I was able to remove a principal and his girlfriend teacher without checking in with the lawyers first.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:48:39 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: SoftballMominVA
Yours were the most sensible comments I've read on this thread tonight. I'd like to take all these people and condemn them to spend a month with my seventh-graders. I'm not sure describing these kids as stupid is accurate, as some of them are really, really articulate, but they have their heads in a whole different world from the rest of us. Good dose of reality needed here.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:50:04 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: robertpaulsen
"The school handbook states that students can be suspended or expelled for carrying a look-alike drug." I'm surprised I got through school unscathed. Our drinking fountain had something coming out of it that looked exactly like vodka.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:51:44 PM PST
by
Washi
To: Know your rights
The cops were called, and THEY checked it out. The charges result from their testing! The administrator has nothing to do with that! Where do you live, that you think the local school principal can have a kid charged with a felony? Even if he/she swears out a complaint, the local DA has to pass on it. Did you miss that? Or are you just jumping in with both feet, too?
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:54:22 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Old Student
The charges result from their testing!Clearly false, since the testing showed it to be a legal substance (sugar).
352
posted on
02/12/2006 6:56:53 PM PST
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
"A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed."
"Clearly false, since the testing showed it to be a legal substance (sugar)."
Clearly true, since the police confirm that he has been charged with a felony. Perhaps you should read a little more carefully in the future.
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:00:57 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Old Student
Ahh, middle schoolers aren't stupid, they are just creatures of the moment. Tomorrow is a long way off, next week an eternity. The goal of parents and teachers is to try to get them to stop to think before acting, and then to start thinking again. I think some posters here never moved past that stage. But that's okay, I don't have to live in anyone else's skin but mine.
To: Old Student
The charges result from their testing!Clearly false, since the testing showed it to be a legal substance (sugar).
Clearly true, since the police confirm that he has been charged with a felony.
Which had nothing to do with their testing. Perhaps you should read a little more carefully in the future.
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:07:50 PM PST
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: SoftballMominVA
Like I said, I'm not sure how to describe them. Stupid doesn't really fit. Smart certainly doesn't fit. I'm not even sure they live in the "now." I think it must be some parallel dimension, similar to ours, but only occaisionally connected. God help them all; they're going to need it.
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:11:03 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Know your rights
"Which had nothing to do with their testing. Perhaps you should read a little more carefully in the future."
The kid has been charged with possession of a "look-alike drug" which is illegal under the law there. He got charged with the felony version of the crime, rather than the lesser version. If it had nothing to do with their testing, he would not have been charged at all, don't you think? Or do you just like to argue for the sake of argument?
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:15:25 PM PST
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Old Student
If it had nothing to do with their testing, he would not have been charged at all, don't you think?A truly bizarre conclusion; please have your sugar tested. In the meantime, ponder this:
"Aurora police arrested the boy after a custodian at the school reported the boy's comments."
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:21:24 PM PST
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: mysterio
Let's not forget imitation fake cocaine.
To: ICE-FLYER
Re your #49 -
"...If this had happened to my son or daughter I would start a war with these blistering idiots the likes of which they never would have dreamed. I would fight to my last penny and breath ..."
Well, it might.
And I have no doubt that you will raise no uncertain level of hell with the boogers, too.
But the good news is that it may not cost you as much as you might expect it to when it does happen.
Interested?
If so, then call toll free: 1-800-394-6919 for an aprox. 15 min. recorded message about something pretty important for any parents to be aware of, but which is not all that well known about.
It seems that some predatory trial Lawyers may not want us to know about it - but it has saved a lot of people a lot of money and grief over the past 32 years, and opened the American Justice system up to "ordinary" Americans - not just the wealthy and powerful.
And the next time the "system" messes with you or your family, they could be in for a very rude and unexpected awakening.
Is it worth 15 min. of your time to learn more?
That's your call entirely.
Please feel free to drop me a P-mail if interested.
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:38:22 PM PST
by
Uncle Jaque
(Club Freedom; Dues: Vigilance.)
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