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Necroshea wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:

Necroshea wrote:This seriously makes me want to consider home schooling when the time comes. Stuff like this keeps happening and it's getting worse. These whistle blowing school faculty can go get fekked.

What really ticks me off is it's like they're getting punished for showing affection.

Stuff like this "keeps happening" because faculty and school systems are facing the same issue as law enforcement at this point: society is too triggerhappy when it comes to litigation. By calling in the sheriff, the school avoids being responsible for punishment of the children and avoids any potential responsibility against them by the parents.

I've seen cases where being safe is paramount to controlling the situation, but with something like this? Come on.

It's not about being safe.

It's about being safe from lawsuits.

Apparently I trained them well.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Apparently I trained them well.

The school administrators or the children?

Surprised they weren't tasered. Officers love to use those little torture devices on anything they can get away with.

Well this is ridiculous and I really wonder what this world is coming to and...

Frazzled wrote:A school administrator in Florida called the sheriff after a pair of consenting 12-year-olds shared a kiss on the playground.

Oh, Florida.

It's just another Florida thing. Moving on.

they belong in jail the criminals



holy WTF?

FITZZ wrote:
Seriously?....School officials are now calling in law enforcement when two kids kiss...?....Seriously?
...This is absolutely ridiculous.

It is an 11th level technique from the ancient way of covering one's own ass.

I thought of this.




Poor kid nearly caught cooties.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Poor kid nearly caught cooties.

This is more serious than I'd imagined.

I'm calling the CDC. They'll send a cleanup team.

Ahtman wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Apparently I trained them well.

The school administrators or the children?

I like to think Cannerus is somewhere demonstrating proper snogging technique in front of school children somewhere.

He is not the teacher they need but rather the one they deserve… or something.

MrDwhitey wrote:What happens if they kiss again? Tasers?

They nuke the site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.


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ON what basis do you call the police in the first place? Thats not illegal. Indeed, its kind of required to keep the species going people.

They nuke the site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.

Make me room for future retires in FLA eh....from the collateral damage.

more

to early in the morning

I spend some time at my local school as a volunteer. It is always striking to me how "industrialized" the learning process is.

It feels more like a labor camp to me than a place of learning, like policies are in place simply to groom kids to be obedient wage slaves in the future. It is really creepy.

WARORK93 wrote:Lee county eh? Never been there myself but as a citizen of Florida I can say that this is just one of those things where the cops get called for the stupidest things...

I mean, this in the face of my high school experience where you can't go between classes and not see a couple swapping saliva like it was the last kiss in a Disney movie...

This goes in the books with those people who call 911 when McDonalds runs out of chicken nuggets...

Well I have and let me tell you

It is the backwater of all backwaters

I've seen cases where being safe is paramount to controlling the situation, but with something like this? Come on.

You can say that, but you're not the guy who would have his boss and everyone up his chain of command ripping his ass apart because some soccer mom lost her gak because some little hussy kissed her poor innocent son and the local ambulance chaser is filing a lawsuit.

Surprised they weren't tasered. Officers love to use those little torture devices on anything they can get away with.

Yeah, nightstick to the back of the head is much safer for everyone involved.

Yeah, nightstick to the back of the head is much safer for everyone involved.

Nerf baton

Karon wrote:Surprised they weren't tasered. Officers love to use those little torture devices on anything they can get away with.

Yeah, awesome. We don't have nearly enough threads about police use of force. By all means steer other conversations toward that.

Actually think the little buggers will beat me out on the water cannon.......

Easy E wrote:I spend some time at my local school as a volunteer. It is always striking to me how "industrialized" the learning process is.

It feels more like a labor camp to me than a place of learning, like policies are in place simply to groom kids to be obedient wage slaves in the future. It is really creepy.

I get the same sort of vibe every time I'm at my kids schools...I feel as though I've stepped into some sort of hybrid Orwellian/Barney indoctrination center, where the primary "lesson" being taught is " how to be another faceless,unquestioning, boring cog in the wheel 101".
Now, believe me...I get that being an educator/teacher can be a very thankless job and that we now live in a " What do you mean my kid did something wrong/was a victim/heard or saw somethingI find offensive!!...I'm suing everyone!!" sort of world, thus resulting in many of these CYA policies ...and despite that, I've met a few teachers who are amazingly dedicated people who genuinely seem to care about the actual learning process.
...But, at the same time, I've sat across tables with"Stepford" administration/ teachers who regurgitate "doublespeak" as though they were tape recorders who's " educational mission" was/is to see that my kids become little tape recorders as well.

Times are changing. Remember back in high school when there was an actual "Social Study" class.

Well this is against human nature.

Jihadin wrote:Times are changing. Remember back in high school when there was an actual "Social Study" class.

... Yeah, I remember back in high school when there were fights between students , staff broke it up, detentions/suspensions were given out...and everyone got on with life.
Now...if two kids scrap ...the police have to be involved.

LoL my wife works in a Urban school, she had 3 handguns brought to school in 1 week and didn't see a sheriff.

FITZZ wrote:

Easy E wrote:I spend some time at my local school as a volunteer. It is always striking to me how "industrialized" the learning process is.

It feels more like a labor camp to me than a place of learning, like policies are in place simply to groom kids to be obedient wage slaves in the future. It is really creepy.

I get the same sort of vibe every time I'm at my kids schools...I feel as though I've stepped into some sort of hybrid Orwellian/Barney indoctrination center, where the primary "lesson" being taught is " how to be another faceless,unquestioning, boring cog in the wheel 101".
Now, believe me...I get that being an educator/teacher can be a very thankless job and that we now live in a " What do you mean my kid did something wrong/was a victim/heard or saw somethingI find offensive!!...I'm suing everyone!!" sort of world, thus resulting in many of these CYA policies ...and despite that, I've met a few teachers who are amazingly dedicated people who genuinely seem to care about the actual learning process.
...But, at the same time, I've sat across tables with"Stepford" administration/ teachers who regurgitate "doublespeak" as though they were tape recorders who's " educational mission" was/is to see that my kids become little tape recorders as well.

I have not goten that vibe at the elementarty or Jr. High. The high school - well I've only been in the band hall and auditoriums which just felt "bandy"


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Clthomps wrote:LoL my wife works in a Urban school, she had 3 handguns brought to school in 1 week and didn't see a sheriff.

Did she get to keep the handguns? I would wear them pirate or Mexican bandit style. If like a pirate, then a nice slow burning match under a hat would fashionably set them off perfectly.

LoL my wife works in a Urban school, she had 3 handguns brought to school in 1 week and didn't see a sheriff

Damn we're getting old.

FITZZ wrote:

Easy E wrote:I spend some time at my local school as a volunteer. It is always striking to me how "industrialized" the learning process is.

It feels more like a labor camp to me than a place of learning, like policies are in place simply to groom kids to be obedient wage slaves in the future. It is really creepy.

I get the same sort of vibe every time I'm at my kids schools...I feel as though I've stepped into some sort of hybrid Orwellian/Barney indoctrination center, where the primary "lesson" being taught is " how to be another faceless,unquestioning, boring cog in the wheel 101".
Now, believe me...I get that being an educator/teacher can be a very thankless job and that we now live in a " What do you mean my kid did something wrong/was a victim/heard or saw somethingI find offensive!!...I'm suing everyone!!" sort of world, thus resulting in many of these CYA policies ...and despite that, I've met a few teachers who are amazingly dedicated people who genuinely seem to care about the actual learning process.
...But, at the same time, I've sat across tables with"Stepford" administration/ teachers who regurgitate "doublespeak" as though they were tape recorders who's " educational mission" was/is to see that my kids become little tape recorders as well.

I'm often saddened at my wife's school. After a parent teacher conference wherein a parent when told by my wife that she doesn't argue with children the parent replied, "well, where is someone my daughter can argue with?" like that's a service that the school is supposed to offer. I'm also shocked by the lack of critical thinking and researching skills displayed by students, let alone the students on their way to high school that can barely read. It disgusts me. Teachers are part of the problem, so is the framework they work within; I wish I knew the solution.

AustonT wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Easy E wrote:I spend some time at my local school as a volunteer. It is always striking to me how "industrialized" the learning process is.

It feels more like a labor camp to me than a place of learning, like policies are in place simply to groom kids to be obedient wage slaves in the future. It is really creepy.

I get the same sort of vibe every time I'm at my kids schools...I feel as though I've stepped into some sort of hybrid Orwellian/Barney indoctrination center, where the primary "lesson" being taught is " how to be another faceless,unquestioning, boring cog in the wheel 101".
Now, believe me...I get that being an educator/teacher can be a very thankless job and that we now live in a " What do you mean my kid did something wrong/was a victim/heard or saw somethingI find offensive!!...I'm suing everyone!!" sort of world, thus resulting in many of these CYA policies ...and despite that, I've met a few teachers who are amazingly dedicated people who genuinely seem to care about the actual learning process.
...But, at the same time, I've sat across tables with"Stepford" administration/ teachers who regurgitate "doublespeak" as though they were tape recorders who's " educational mission" was/is to see that my kids become little tape recorders as well.

I'm often saddened at my wife's school. After a parent teacher conference wherein a parent when told by my wife that she doesn't argue with children the parent replied, "well, where is someone my daughter can argue with?" like that's a service that the school is supposed to offer. I'm also shocked by the lack of critical thinking and researching skills displayed by students, let alone the students on their way to high school that can barely read. It disgusts me. Teachers are part of the problem, so is the framework they work within; I wish I knew the solution.

Where there's a will there's a way. Vote Frazzled for Dicta...er President, and I will insure an amazing turnaround in scholastic activity. Everyone just needs the proper motivation.

Frazzled wrote:

Clthomps wrote:LoL my wife works in a Urban school, she had 3 handguns brought to school in 1 week and didn't see a sheriff.

Did she get to keep the handguns?

I doubt it, she probably had to give them back at the end of the day.

@Frazzled
My friends have been subjected to my 2036 campaign for President of North America.
I would opine that Defense spending and Education spending should be equal.

AustonT wrote:@Frazzled
My friends have been subjected to my 2036 campaign for President of North America.
I would opine that Defense spending and Education spending should be equal.

I'm ok with that. UNder the enlightened Frazzled foreign policy of "dick with us and we'll radiate you, otherwise we're cool" we should have plenty of funds freed up for such. Proper funding and proper motivational techniques for all parties will insure Greater Texas er the USA will have the best educational system in the world.