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Students Suspended For Talking About Nooses
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4982891&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 ^

Posted on 11/24/2007 6:56:55 AM PST by chessplayer

Accusations of racism in a Lee's Summit high school have lead to suspensions, but now the parents say their kids were unfairly punished.

Travis Grigsby loves playing drums, but he and his friend Alex Coday weren't able to play for two weeks after they were suspended. It started after the band's performance at a football game. Some kids on the drum line said they were talking about the best knots to use to tie up the drum equipment.

"Someone asked if anybody knew how to tie a noose and Travis did admit he knew how to tie a noose," Kim Grigsby said.

Travis' mom said her son is almost an Eagle Scout, he knew how to tie it, but told his friends he wouldn't because you could get in trouble for that. Later, a black student on the drum line told the teacher he was offended.

"Travis was accused of using a racial slur for saying the word 'noose.' Then he was suspended for 10 days," Kim said.

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KEYWORDS: discipline; noose; pc; publikskewlz; speechcodes; zerotolerance
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To: P.O.E.

Great question——no one because our side is too busy watching football and basketball. I’ve always said the white man only cares about three things: Can I get in another round of golf on Sunday before the football game and is there enough propane to barbecue. He doesn’t care about his country, his job, his family — just sports. My answer to your question.


81 posted on 11/25/2007 10:16:28 AM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: chessplayer
I live in Lee's Summit. When I first moved here, about 17 years ago, it still had something of a small town feel to it. You could buy a hunting license and shotgun shells at the video rental counter of the Hy Vee grocery store on M291. You could buy guns and ammo at the drug store on 3rd street. And there was a city wide celebration known as "Cole Younger Days."

Now, as one of the fastest growing cities in the state of Missouri, things have really changed. That drug store has closed, you can't buy shotgun shells or hunting licenses at the Hy Vee any more, and Cole Younger Days is now known as "Old Tyme Days." Although they haven't taken that old murderous bank robber's name off of any streets just yet. I guess this is an example of how things have changed...

Mark

82 posted on 11/25/2007 10:34:14 AM PST by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: weef
how does Mark Twain still get away with it?

He doesn't. Every year you can read about school districts and cities that want to ban his books from libraries and required reading lists, replacing them with the works of Maya Angelou.

Mark

83 posted on 11/25/2007 10:36:34 AM PST by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: Cicero
We used to use the noose knot to hang deer up after field dressing them.

I had learned how to tie one by the age of ten.

It is a handy knot, and just a knot, an arrangement of rope, but I can see why the politicians and bureaucrats might want it banned.

I guess once people have pretty much driven the Confederate Battle Flag out of the public venue, they need some other "symbol" to hate.

Frankly, I hope none of these folks ever needs a chain for anything.

84 posted on 11/25/2007 10:45:02 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

bump


85 posted on 11/25/2007 12:54:02 PM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: billorites
Here's a one male to two female adapter.

Back in my high school's audio/visual unit, we referred to female/female and male/male adapters as homo or lesbian connectors. But that was many years ago. I can only imagine what would have happened to us today

86 posted on 11/25/2007 1:00:25 PM PST by PapaBear3625
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To: chessplayer
Travis was accused of using a racial slur for saying the word 'noose.' Then he was suspended for 10 days

Noose is a racial slur?

Kansas City?

87 posted on 11/25/2007 1:03:28 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: chessplayer

This is insane, they act like no white person has ever been on the wrong side of a noose.


88 posted on 11/25/2007 1:05:04 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...




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89 posted on 11/25/2007 5:10:25 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: Plains Drifter

“Ain’t got nothin’, ain’t got nothin’ to lose”

- Bob Dylan


90 posted on 11/25/2007 10:48:02 PM PST by P.O.E.
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To: chessplayer

Ho, ho, ho, Merrrrrryyyyyy Christmas!


91 posted on 11/26/2007 6:01:47 AM PST by CSM ("Dogs and beer. Proof that God loves us.- Al Gator (8/24/2007))
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Great tag line


92 posted on 11/26/2007 8:42:37 AM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: reg45
“Remember, in any population, 50% are less intelligent than the average.”

50% are less intelligent than the median- the average (mean) can be different from the median.

If you have 10,20,20,20,50,80,100,100, the average is 50 and the median is 35, so half are higher than 35 and half lower.

93 posted on 12/14/2007 1:44:38 PM PST by DBrow
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To: DBrow
Ok! Ok! You are technically correct. I should have used proper terminology - after all this is Free Republic, not The Daily Kos (where the population is highly skewed towards the lowest quartile of the bell curve).

However, in a normally distributed population, the mean (average), the median, and the mode are the same value.

BTW, when I think of nooses, I associate them with "Hang 'Em High", "The Oxbow Incident", and "Judgment at Nuremberg".

94 posted on 12/14/2007 10:36:59 PM PST by reg45
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To: Biblebelter

In the final analysis, there is no real difference between the KKK hanging someone they don’t like and those other guys engaging in a “drive-by-shooting”.


95 posted on 12/14/2007 10:44:39 PM PST by reg45
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To: morkfork

Don’t forget Adolf Eichmann and Saddam Hussayn who also had encounters with nooses.


96 posted on 12/14/2007 10:56:47 PM PST by reg45
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To: Old Seadog

That's quite the niggardly noose you have hanging there.

97 posted on 12/14/2007 11:07:23 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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To: reg45

We better get rid of handcuffs as they are far too close to shackles.


98 posted on 12/14/2007 11:08:08 PM PST by LukeL
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To: chessplayer
Travis' mom said her son is almost an Eagle Scout, he knew how to tie it...

The Boy Scouts of America do not teach how to tie a noose.

99 posted on 12/14/2007 11:11:53 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: chessplayer

The boyscouts will now be sued...


100 posted on 12/14/2007 11:13:22 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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