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Ithaca Students Will Be Locked In Classrooms (another liberal education success story)
Finger Lakes News Radio ^ | 2007-10-22 6:28 AM

Posted on 10/22/2007 9:06:49 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: metmom
I can’t imagine that that’s not ALREADY a fire code violation, even without locking the doors, unless there’s a door leading directly outside from each classroom (in which case I’m sure they wouldn’t bother locking the hall door in the first place).

OTOH, maybe they didn’t want the doors opening into the hall, blocking other kids who’ve already exited their classrooms, but what I’ve seen done in the past is a little alcove off the hall, so the door can still open out without blocking the hall.

101 posted on 10/22/2007 4:34:02 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: SubmarineNuke

Oh, no, I knew you were lamenting her brainwashing and weren’t speaking for yourself. I was just jumping on the band wagon.


102 posted on 10/22/2007 4:35:36 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: NativeNewYorker
I lived in the city of evil for 5 years in the 70s.

Four years of study, and a year trying to find a place to park?

103 posted on 10/22/2007 4:54:28 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a Lib hanging from every telephone pole, He wouldn't have created so much rope!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

**Four years of study, and a year trying to find a place to park?**

It’s the Other way around


104 posted on 10/22/2007 5:16:37 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (I love my CONSTITUTION more than your Skin Color ... Racist?? I THINK NOT!!)
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To: NativeNewYorker; Behind Liberal Lines
a group came to school dressed in camouflage.

Camo: It's the new black.
>

If they were dressed in THIS camo, I'd lock the doors, too.


105 posted on 10/22/2007 5:20:15 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a Lib hanging from every telephone pole, He wouldn't have created so much rope!)
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To: Slapshot68

After Colombine, the HS where I taught in TX had a policy that the doors were kept locked. They open from the inside, but not from the outside without a key. In case of a fire, you can get out.
Where I teach now (a private elementary) it’s the same. Doors a kept locked. It’s mainly a pain in the neck for the teacher/assistant as we have to unlock the door any time we leave the room for any reason. However, it’s not a bad safety policy. Should someone get into the school, they cannot get into the rooms easily.
susie


106 posted on 10/22/2007 5:32:15 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
From Wikipedia:

"The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial disaster that took place at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, USA on September 3, 1991, after a failure in a faulty modification to a hydraulic line.Twenty-five people were killed and 54 injured in the fire as they were trapped behind locked fire doors."

107 posted on 10/22/2007 5:48:52 PM PDT by Spirochete
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To: ApplegateRanch

Ha! Four years (including summers) and some time thereafter. It’s a pleasant enough town...or was back then.


108 posted on 10/22/2007 6:07:15 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: brytlea
After Colombine, the HS where I taught in TX had a policy that the doors were kept locked. They open from the inside, but not from the outside without a key. In case of a fire, you can get out.

Same at my school.

Perhaps it's the misleading headline, but I can't believe the number of people on this thread who seem to seriously believe that the students would not be able to exit the classroom.

109 posted on 10/22/2007 6:25:58 PM PDT by Amelia
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To: Amelia
I can't believe the number of people on this thread who seem to seriously believe that the students would not be able to exit the classroom.

Careful reading: It's not just a Liberal deficiency any more!

I, too, was dumbfounded by it.

Evelyn Wood should feel proud!

110 posted on 10/22/2007 8:38:50 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a Lib hanging from every telephone pole, He wouldn't have created so much rope!)
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To: Amelia; SoftballMominVA; leda

Come to think of it, we are told once and a while to lock our doors after the tardy bell so the administration can sweep the halls for tardy students.

My door opens just fine from the inside, with no problems.

In fact, we have gone into lockdowns before because of drug sweeps and such, kept on business as usual.


111 posted on 10/23/2007 3:11:02 AM PDT by shag377 (De gustibus non disputandum est)
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To: Amelia; shag377
PSDS = Public School Derangement Syndrome

def: The inability to see anything good about any public school and the quick knee-jerk reaction to see only the very worst about every given situation.

See also the close cousin found in liberals BDS = Bush Derangement Syndrome

112 posted on 10/23/2007 4:28:08 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA (Never wrestle with a pig; he wants to get dirty anyway.)
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To: Slapshot68

I’m assuming the doors are only locked from the inside or easily opened in case of fire..


113 posted on 10/23/2007 6:53:05 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Locking classroom doors at the start of a class will make students more punctual and help identify which students are skipping class outright, Pastel said.

I have a feeling they might already have a clue as to the perpetually absent. Lock down only helps the frightened ones feel safe in roughly 40 min blocks of time. And so they further identify these students? It seems they already can't 'control' them. Do they give them detentions? Will the police need to take precautions for their own safety?

Not mentioned in the article is the reason for the absences: continued rumors of race-related attacks between black students and white students.

Well, mentioning that wouldn't be very PC, would it? The attacks between students - it's a mystery... After all, they are so enlightened in Ithaca, a beacon to us all. They truly are a shining example of socialisms' workings ~ /end sarcasm.

114 posted on 10/23/2007 10:07:54 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Finally catching up with posting...)
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To: Amelia

Me either, but I guess they haven’t been in a school in a long time. I miss the days when doors weren’t locked, but I also miss the days when a 4th grader could walk to the bathroom without an adult escort, or run a note down to the office. But those days are gone.
susie


115 posted on 10/23/2007 3:34:33 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: SoftballMominVA

LOL

:)
susie


116 posted on 10/23/2007 3:35:33 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: Hieronymus; VampireStateNY; governsleastgovernsbest; gaspar; NativeNewYorker; drjimmy; Atticus; ...
Ithaca woman attacked victim with steel grate

Ithaca police say a woman has been arrested for attacking a victim with a steel grate pulled from a stove.

The victim was hospitalized with “multiple contusions” to the head and face and a broken rib.

Amelia Kearney, 44, has been charged with first-degree assault, a felony. The victim was taken to Cayuga Medical Center.

From professional victim to victimizer.
117 posted on 09/14/2014 10:15:09 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
isn't she the fat ugly race bating cow what sued the school a few years back???

oh yeah... a real pillar of society that is

118 posted on 09/14/2014 10:47:19 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode

Yep. That’s the one. Maybe she can use some of the lawsuit money to hire a lawyer...nah, she’ll probably get a free one from the taxpayers.


119 posted on 09/14/2014 11:54:09 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
100%, no doubt the money is looooong gone...
120 posted on 09/14/2014 11:56:17 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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