Posted on 12/15/2018 7:21:56 AM PST by bgill
AUSTIN — Three McNeil High School students are each facing a class C misdemeanor citation for stealing animal crackers and a jar of pretzels from the staff lounge...According to the school district, McMillan's 15-year-old son and his two friends entered the unlocked school building during the school's basketball game and made their way into the staff lounge, which requires a badge. A custodian had left the door propped open. "They were like, 'Let's go in. I think it would be cool if we go in and get it.' Just being dumb teenagers, not doing what they're supposed to do," McMillan said. Inside, surveillance cameras caught the teens taking the crackers and pretzels from the lounge
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“Shame on you and don’t you ever do that again. Now get out of here and go do your homework.”
Your punishment makes sense.
Don’t break the law in Williamson County.
They are serious about crime, and hard on criminals.
“Nothing wrong with nipping it in the bud “
I say this calls for action, and now!
“Make them clean the basketball team’s restroom but don’t put animal crackers on their record and ruin their chances of improving themselves with college and a good job.”
What job would be lost due to a Class C Misdemeanor?
I'm more concerned about what police department would extend any efforts on this case. Is all other crime in the city solved that they've enough time to seek out a cookie monster?
oh, the yuge manatee..
Government schools are evil.
Austin. Where stealing a cookie puts you on trial, but illegal aliens are welcome. Makes nothing but sense.
Surveillance cameras in faculty lounge?
Common sense left the building a long time ago.
When one of my sons was in middle school, he had a classmate who was particularly prone to fight at the drop of a hat. Almost every day my son came home with a story about who Joe got into a fight with, today. I noticed that the fights almost always happened in the locker room during gym class.
It finally dawned on me. The gym teacher was an old coach who had retired, got bored, and gone back to teaching and coaching. He knew exactly what was happening but he was allowing the students to handle things themselves, especially since the rules would’ve dictated that both particpants in the fight would have been suspended.
The parents of the kid who loved to fight finally got him involved in amateur boxing and that curbed his urge to pound on other people.
Stealing snacks from the faculty lounge? “Back in the day” someone on the faculty of my high school would have found some creative ways to punish the miscreants, like baking cookies for the faculty in the home ec classroom and then serving them to the faculty in their classrooms during class. The culprits would have probably preferred facing a judge!
A male senior kid at my son’s school, straight A’s and a 36 ACT, got in trouble after a spat with the school’s female President of Student Council.
The argument was about counting volunteer hours for kids at a non-profit that the President didn’t like (a conservative organization of course).
The young man got up from the table and said something patronizing and patted her on the head as he left the room.
The school administration got involved and made him jump through all kinds of hoops to make amends.
But the worst was he had to send a letter to ALL of the colleges he applied to that he had been adjudicated as to have committed an act of unpermitted touching of another student.
He had expected to go to an Ivy League school but ended up having to take a gap year because he was not accepted at any college he applied to.
The family is now suing the school!
That’s really what it is, the boys got access to the teachers’ top secret clubhouse and somebody got their liberal panties in a wad. They were violated!
Would you hire a convicted thief?
“Surveillance cameras in faculty lounge?”
When I was in what used to be called “Junior High” coach told a friend and I we were supposed to come see him after lunch in the “teacher’s lounge”. It was what we called “the cage” which sat atop the boy’s locker room and consisted of exactly that. A “cage” and it had lounge chairs, a couch, fridge, coffee pot etc.
Apparently he forgot he had told us to come get him and boy, did we get an eyeful! My what strange things were going on up there!
“Would you hire a convicted thief?“
If you do not wish to be a convicted thief, don’t be a thief.
As for the Class C, it is the same level as a traffic ticket or minor with tobacco.
“Austin. Where stealing a cookie puts you on trial, but illegal aliens are welcome. Makes nothing but sense.”
It’s not Austin, or even Travis County.
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