Posted on 11/18/2007 6:33:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
PHOENIX - The family of a teenage skeet shooter is complaining that school officials overreacted by suspending the girl for inadvertently leaving two unopened boxes of shotgun shells in her car when she drove to school. High school senior Kim Peters said she fears the punishment will cloud her permanent record as she applies to colleges. Her family is fighting the Dysart Unified School District to get the offense, possession of a "dangerous instrument," expunged. Administrators stand by their decision and rejected the family's first appeal. "We can never comment on a specific situation with a student (due to privacy laws), but what I can say is that whenever we are dealing with any infraction . . . our duties involve keeping students in a safe and secure environment," Dysart Superintendent Gail Pletnick said. Peters, 17, called her own actions "careless" but said she doesn't feel the punishment fits the crime. Peters, who has won several skeet-shooting trophies, said her 12-hour-a-week practice schedule got so hectic that she forgot to take the ammunition out of her vehicle as she was running late for school last week. There was no gun. Willow Canyon High School administrators disciplined Peters after a security guard noticed the shells in the back seat of Peters' car. She is scheduled to return to school Tuesday.
ping.
*looks around the room*
*right*
*left*
Nope. I see no mods.
BUMP!!!!!!
Duplicate thread......the MODS are coming. (snicker)
OK. Once more on the hopes this one can stay up.
http://www.dysart.org/index.html
This is the school district we’re talking about here.
And below are a bunch of phone numbers for you to call should you wish to politely express your displeasure with this stupid decision. ;)
District Office Switchboard: 623.876.7000
General questions: CommunityRelations@dysart.org
HR questions: HireMe@dysart.org
Click on the department name below to access the department’s webpage. To contact any Dysart employee by email, use this format: FirstName.LastName@dysart.org. For individual school phone numbers and addresses, please visit our schools page by clicking on the Schools link in the above navigation bar.
Governing Board 623.876.7002
Superintendent 623.876.7002
Communications & Public Affairs 623.876.7169
Volunteer Coordinator 623.594.2618
Educational/Academic Support Services 623.876.7043
Acountability & Research 623.876.7020
Career & Technical Education 623.876.7921
Career Ladder 623.876.7043
Community Education 623.876.7056
Curriculum & Instruction 623.876.7043
Educational Technology 623.876.7901
Fine Arts 623.876.7948
Health Services 623.876.7922
Immunizations 623.876.7944
Language Acquisition/Migrant 623.876.7073
Literacy K-3 623.876.7089
Prevention 623.876.7025
Professional Development 623.876.7068
Special & Gifted Education 623.876.7022
Student Activities & Athletics 623.876.7962
Student Services 623.876.7174
Testing & Assessment 623.876.7020
Title 1 623.876.7970
Business Services 623.876.7018
Food & Nutrition 623.876.7075
(Southwest Food Service Excellence)
Information Technology 623.876.7071
Purchasing 623.876.7010
Transportation 623.876.7030
Human Resources 623.876.7912
Benefits 623.876.7070
When did common sense cease to exist?
Nuh uh! Dare you to find the first one!
Thats ok, don’t you shoot doubles in skeet?
In before the mods? :’)
LOL!!!!
as Isaid before four day vacation.
Muchos gracias!
I’m tellin’ ya, one of them is messing w/me. I went to post SOMETHING......darned if I remember now....and my comment met the blue screen of death, saying the thread was pulled.
And now, here it is back.
I think, maybe, *looking around room again*, *under desk*, Hmmmmmmmmm.............I’ll walk away for a second or so.
:)
This is an OUTRAGE!!!!
OMG, it’s gone! LOL -did you use voodoo?
A security guard patrolling the parking lot looking into cars for things to bust the students on????
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