I tend to disagree with schools most of the time. However, I wonder if they have a clear rule against bringing live animals to school. If so, he should have gotten permission.
Of course, he should have gotten permission anyway. And I’m surprised the parents didn’t think to ask the school before allowing him to take the horse there. The only reason not to ask is if you think there is something wrong with it.
But I still don’t think a 2-day suspension makes sense. Ask the kid what he was thinking, and when you find out he THOUGHT it was a good idea, give him a warning and some detention, let him clean up the parking lot or something, and be done with it.
My daughter got suspended a few weeks ago for giving the wrong answer on a hypothetical psych question about “what would you do if you could get away with it and there would be no consequences?”. Apparently the “right” answer was things like “Rob a Bank” or “hijack a snack truck” or “have sex in school”.
The “wrong” answer was “Mass Murder”. Even if you are in teh biotech specialty program and the school sent you to the FBI to learn about serial killers and you are studying to be a forensic scientist and solve mass murders.
You would die if you lived down south. Senior week down here is nuts.....riding a horse to school would be considered tame.
I can't believe you (you!) typed that.
No, I don't agree. The only reason to ~ask~ is if you think there might be something wrong with it. I'm pretty sure it never would have occurred to me to ask permission for something so completely harmless.
It is high time to abolish government schools
Thought crime. Amazing.
“My daughter got suspended a few weeks ago for giving the wrong answer on a hypothetical psych question about “what would you do if you could get away with it and there would be no consequences?”
The school was just plain stupid. There are no “wrong” answers to such questions on any psychological test that I am aware of. The whole point of such questions on such tests is to elicit uninhibited responses. To punish a respondant for their honest answer invalidates the whole exercize.
Viet Vet
B.S. Psych. 1966
“My daughter got suspended a few weeks ago for giving the wrong answer on a hypothetical psych question about “what would you do if you could get away with it and there would be no consequences?”
The school was just plain stupid. There are no “wrong” answers to such questions on any psychological test that I am aware of. The whole point of such questions on such tests is to elicit uninhibited responses. To punish a respondant for their honest answer invalidates the whole exercize.
Viet Vet
B.S. Psych. 1966
I bet their collective heads would have exploded if she had written "There are ALWAYS consequences since God is always watching."
The “wrong” answer was “Mass Murder”. Even if you are in teh biotech specialty program and the school sent you to the FBI to learn about serial killers and you are studying to be a forensic scientist and solve mass murders.
What if she had answered "smoke a cigarette?"
The principal would be seeking the death penalty.
That was a “trick” question, the answer they were looking for was “blow up the school, kill teachers,students etc.”