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2014/08/20 19:29:22
Subject: Re:A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
State Statute 59-24-60 law Enforcement Notification: In addition to other provisions required by law or by regulation of the State Board of Education, school administrators must contact law enforcement authorities immediately upon notice that a person engaging or has engaged in activities on school property or at a school sanctioned or sponsored activity which may result or results in injury or serious threat of injury to the person or to another person or his property as defined in local board policy.
Please note that school personnel no longer have discretion regarding calling the police. This statute means just what it says, ―must contact law enforcement authorities immediately.
So the question arises; did the staff member have a credible belief that the student was expressing a desire to harm his neighbor. If so, the state law apparently requires the involvement of law enforcement.
Most states have similar laws, I know that Oklahoma does (where I reside) and it's even legal to park on school property with a loaded firearm in the vehicle as long as it is unattended, locked, the firearm is not visible, and you have proper permits (new law passed in the spring session).
What we don't know as random punters on the internet is any background about the student. Has he had a past history of violent behavior? Is the neighbor a student at the school? Is the neighbor's dog named "Rex" or any other interchangeable form of a dinosaur?
I'm not going to assume at surface level that what the school and local law enforcement did was wrong because I don't have enough information.
Edit:
The school district uses a 3-tier system of identification regarding disorderly conduct. For an arrest, he would have to be a very bad boy (assuming the school followed their procedures).
Spoiler:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT The following listing of offenses and the required or recommended dispositions are submitted for the information of students, parents, and school personnel. Disciplinary actions will include appropriate hearings and review, and the removal of a student from the learning environment will occur only for just cause and in accordance with due process of law. Level I 1. Disorderly conduct is defined as those activities engaged in by student(s) which tend to impede orderly classroom procedures or instructional activities, orderly operation of the school, or the frequency or seriousness of which disturb classroom or school.
2. Acts of disorderly conduct may include, but are not limited to: a. Classroom/school tardiness; b. Cheating on examinations or classroom assignments; c. Lying; d. Acting in a manner so as to interfere with the instructional process; e. Abusive language between or among students; f. Failure to complete assignments or carry out directions; g. Use of forged notes or excuses; h. Cutting classes; i. Stealing; j. Truancy; k. Disturbing the school; l. Vandalism; m. Fraud; n. Leaving campus without authorization o. Other disorderly acts as determined by the Board.
3. The basic enforcement procedures to be followed in instances of disorderly conduct are: a. Upon observation or notification and verification of an offense, the staff member should take immediate action to rectify the misconduct. The staff member should apply an appropriate sanction, with the exception of ―e‖ and should maintain a record of the misconduct and the sanction. b. If certain misconduct is not immediately rectifiable, the problem should be referred to the appropriate administrator for action specified under this policy. c. The administrator should communicate with the reporting staff member and, if necessary, the student and the parent or guardian, and shall take the appropriate disciplinary action. d. Documentation of the procedures should be maintained. 4. Possible sanctions to be applied in cases of disorderly conduct may include, but are not limited to: a. Verbal reprimand; b. Withdrawal of privileges; c. Demerits; d. Detention; e. Corporal punishment; f. On-campus reasonable work detail; g. Other sanctions approved by the Board of Trustees.
Level II 1. Disruptive conduct is defined as those activities engaged in by student(s) which are directed against persons or property, and the consequences of which tend to endanger the health or safety of oneself or others in the school. Some instances of disruptive conduct may overlap certain criminal offenses, justifying both administrative sanctions and legal proceedings. Disorderly conduct (Level I) may be reclassified as disruptive conduct (Level II) if it occurs three or more times.
2. Acts of disruptive conduct may include, but are not limited to: a. Use of an intoxicant; b. Fighting/simple assault; c. Vandalism (minor); d. Stealing; e. Threats against others; f. Trespassing; g. Abusive language to staff; h. Refusal to obey school personnel or agents (such as volunteers, aides or chaperons) whose responsibilities include supervision of students; i. Possession or use of unauthorized substances, as defined by law or local school board policy; j. Illegally occupying or blocking in any way school property with the intent to deprive others of its use; k. Unlawful assembly; l. Disrupting lawful assembly; m. Fireworks; n. Intimidation; o. Liquor violation; p. Fraud; q. Counterfeiting/gambling; r. Pornographic material; s. Leaving campus without authorization; t. Any other acts as determined by the Board of Trustees.
3. The basic enforcement procedures to be followed in instances of disruptive conduct are: a. Upon observation or notification and verification of an offense, the administrator should investigate the circumstances of the misconduct. b. The administrator should notify the parent or guardian of the student’s misconduct and related proceedings. The administrator should meet with the student and, if necessary, the parent or guardian, confer with them about the misconduct, and shall take the appropriate action. c. Documentation of the procedures should be maintained.
4. Possible sanctions to be applied in cases of disruptive conduct may include, but are not limited to: a. Temporary removal from class; b. Out-of-school suspension; c. Transfer within the school or district; d. Referral to outside agency, i.e. law enforcement; e. Expulsion; f. On-campus reasonable work detail; g. Restitution of property and damages, where appropriate, should be sought by local school authorities; h. School level probation; i. Board level probation; j. Other sanctions as approved by the Board of Trustees.
Level III 1. Criminal conduct is defined as those activities engaged in by student(s) which result in violence to oneself or another person or property or which pose a direct and serious threat to the safety of oneself or others in the school. These activities usually require administrative action, which result in the immediate removal of the student from the school, the intervention of law enforcement authorities, and/or action by the Board of Trustees.
2. Acts of criminal conduct may include, but are not limited to: a. Aggravated assault and battery; b. Extortion; c. Bomb threat; d. Possession, use, or transfer of dangerous weapons or look-a-like weapons or anything which is used as a weapon; e. Sexual offenses; f. Vandalism (major); g. Theft, possession, or sale of stolen property/larceny; h. Arson; i. Furnishing or selling unauthorized substances, as defined by board policy; j. Drug possession (drugs, narcotics, or poisons) or look-a-like substance including prescription and non-prescription; k. Drug distribution including prescription and non-prescription; l. Intimidation; m. Embezzlement; n. Prostitution; o. Pornographic material; p. Leaving campus without authorization; q. Homicide.
3. The basic enforcement procedures to be followed in instances of criminal conduct are: a. Upon observation or notification and verification of an offense, the administrator should confer with the staff involved, shall take the appropriate disciplinary action, and, if appropriate, should meet with the student. b. If warranted, the student should be removed immediately from the school environment. A parent or guardian should be notified as soon as possible. c. If appropriate, school officials should contact law enforcement authorities. d. Established due process procedures shall be followed when applicable. e. Documentation of the procedures should be maintained. 4. Possible sanctions to be applied in cases of criminal conduct may include, but are not limited to: a. Out-of-school suspension; b. Expulsion; c. Restitution of property and damages, where appropriate, should be sought by local school authorities; d. Arrest by law enforcement; e. Other sanctions as approved by the Board of Trustees.
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2014/08/20 19:38:17
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
So the question arises; did the staff member have a credible belief that the student was expressing a desire to harm his neighbor. If so, the state law apparently requires the involvement of law enforcement.
You mean the neighbor's...dinosaur?
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2014/08/20 19:41:58
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
So the question arises; did the staff member have a credible belief that the student was expressing a desire to harm his neighbor. If so, the state law apparently requires the involvement of law enforcement.
You mean the neighbor's...dinosaur?
Neighbor's name is Rex...easy inferrence to catch if you're not a stupid 16 year old; nice of you quote me out of context.
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2014/08/20 19:44:58
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2014/08/20 19:51:46
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die. My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud. What would happen now if I did that?
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2014/08/20 19:51:57
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
Just an example. Rex is a common dog's name and is relatable to dinosaurs. It can also be used as a person's name, mine for example is Rex. It is common for children to call someone named Rex "Trex" or other, similar nicknames.
Look, I know it's easy to jump to conclusions due to the media hyping up a situation; however, you have to question whether we have all of the information. For all that we know, this kid has been feuding with a fellow student and something that is easily attributable to dinosaurs might be involved and he put a veiled threat in his writing.
We don't know the whole story.
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2014/08/20 19:54:07
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
I took a creative writing class in HS and wrote a short story titled "Death of a Santa Claus"; it was submitted and published in a city-wide publication.
Unfortunately, we're not living in the same time just like when I was a kid (8 or 9), I could ride my bike all around the neighborhood and now parents generally don't let their kids go out of sight. Different world, unless you graduated last year; in that case, different city/school district.
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2014/08/20 19:57:17
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
under heavy medication that would turn you just this side of a zombie?
Just an example. Rex is a common dog's name and is relatable to dinosaurs. It can also be used as a person's name, mine for example is Rex. It is common for children to call someone named Rex "Trex" or other, similar nicknames.
Look, I know it's easy to jump to conclusions due to the media hyping up a situation; however, you have to question whether we have all of the information. For all that we know, this kid has been feuding with a fellow student and something that is easily attributable to dinosaurs might be involved and he put a veiled threat in his writing.
We don't know the whole story.
But it didn't say "Rex" it said "dinosaur."
Sure he's stupid, but so is high school.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2014/08/20 20:03:58
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
under heavy medication that would turn you just this side of a zombie?
You forgot the part where they'd also ship him off to a school full of genuinely violent kids.
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
under heavy medication that would turn you just this side of a zombie?
You forgot the part where they'd also ship him off to a school full of genuinely violent kids.
Alternative School! Mmm...memories.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2014/08/20 20:16:35
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
At my high school, they used to ship the trouble-makers to Vo-Tech (maybe this is now an outdated term). Which meant the problem just got transferred from one group of teachers to another group of teachers, and the kids who were there because they were sincerely interested in vocational training got a worse education for it.
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2014/08/20 20:23:13
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
under heavy medication that would turn you just this side of a zombie?
You forgot the part where they'd also ship him off to a school full of genuinely violent kids.
Alternative School! Mmm...memories.
When you talk about weiner dogs parachuting into the school the free classmates from detention, you have to guess that would happen.
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2014/08/20 20:26:09
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
A few years back, the enxt door neighbor had a fat furry wiener dog named Max. Probably the friendliest dog on the planet. About once a week she would get a call, that Max had gotten out and wandered over to the elementary next door and was inside playing with the kids.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2014/08/20 20:39:43
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
I took a creative writing class in HS and wrote a short story titled "Death of a Santa Claus"; it was submitted and published in a city-wide publication.
Unfortunately, we're not living in the same time just like when I was a kid (8 or 9), I could ride my bike all around the neighborhood and now parents generally don't let their kids go out of sight. Different world, unless you graduated last year; in that case, different city/school district.
Yeah, they're jumpy in the schools these days. *shrug* A lot of things have changed like that.
Years ago, you could get away with a lot of stuff in an airport without getting arrested and sent to a labor camp. Like, for instance, smiling or looking a security person in the eye.
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Frazzled wrote: A few years back, the enxt door neighbor had a fat furry wiener dog named Max. Probably the friendliest dog on the planet. About once a week she would get a call, that Max had gotten out and wandered over to the elementary next door and was inside playing with the kids.
Max was obviously an advance scout for the invasion.
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2014/08/20 20:51:32
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
Frazzled wrote: A few years back, the enxt door neighbor had a fat furry wiener dog named Max. Probably the friendliest dog on the planet. About once a week she would get a call, that Max had gotten out and wandered over to the elementary next door and was inside playing with the kids.
Max was obviously an advance scout for the invasion.
He was, he was indeed. His calm "love me rub my belly!" demeanor was a front for his true tinker tailor soldier spy persona!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2014/08/20 22:30:36
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
Desubot wrote: So how long till they remove every G word from history books n stuff or anything remotely L shaped.
Seriously... pretty soon the American War of Independence will have been harshly decided over strong language and louder fireworks... simply because that word or any action directly related to it cannot be used
Either there is more to this story or it is an isolated incident of a teacher overreacting combined with administration that lacks any intestinal fortitude.
My guess would be in line with this... I wrote plenty of stuff that, if I had this teacher, would probably be locked up as well (not to mention, I took to drawing the Linux penguin holding an assortment of weapons on paper, in lieu of my actual name for one of my science classes )
I personally never really had a problem with any teachers, due to being a football player, and most of the teachers who saw THAT kind of writing, were my football coaches. This could ultimately boil down to a teacher just starting out in the school year doesn't really have a full grasp of each of their students' and their personalities, and thus having this overreaction.
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2014/08/20 22:37:51
Subject: Re:A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
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2014/08/21 01:04:17
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
hotsauceman1 wrote: When I was in high school I wrote a poem about how angry I am, how I hate everyone in the school system and how I wish we would all die.
My teacher submitted it to a poetry compilation and had me read it outloud.
What would happen now if I did that?
A long while ago for my year 10 creative writing I wrote a story about a guy who murdered his family (least i think it was his family) when we got the results back she said "that was very well written but will not get you good marks" in response I gave her a long extended death stare ( unfortunately without communicating why I was giving one - that horror writing is just as valuable writing as any other ) . The result next year I was no longer in her class ( after 3 loooooong years of hearing feminist, literary elitist BS -- if I ever publish a novel there will be an acknowledgement to her in the front) and my new teacher said he had no idea why I was moved down to his class.
It seems we have a lot of people on Dakka who would have been gaoled in high school.
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2014/08/21 02:08:20
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
The way the police in the US seem to be going, the kid is lucky a full SWAT team didn't turn up in Apache Gunships to make the arrest.
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2014/08/21 02:13:40
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
Ahtman wrote: That and the whole "16 year old says...after writing about killing about a dinosaur with a gun". Next there will be a story about how he failed math just because his teacher didn't like him. I imagine the police and administration have a different story than the kid and his mom.
Yep. The district officials state that he was suspended for writing about bringing a gun to school.
It's incredible really, any person on this thread who actually spoke to a 16 year old kid would believe maybe a half of what that he says, because we all know teenages lie all the damn time. And if it was about a kid trying to get out of trouble, then we'd all know it's just total bs from beginning to end. And yet if the story involves ludicrous claims about school, we just accept it all.
We want to believe schools are insanely run, and so we just turn off our bs detectors when it comes to crazy stories about schools.
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2014/08/21 03:25:22
Subject: Re:A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
We want to believe schools are insanely run, and so we just turn off our bs detectors when it comes to crazy stories about schools.
I really don't think we WANT to. The problem is that as time progresses, your score in "Real life or The Onion" always decreases to the point in which that it's just too damned hard to tell anymore.
daedalus wrote: I really don't think we WANT to. The problem is that as time progresses, your score in "Real life or The Onion" always decreases to the point in which that it's just too damned hard to tell anymore.
True, my life on the internet has certainly made me incapable of calling bs on anything without looking it up first, because I've had just enough instances of reading about truly ludicrous things and then finding out they actually happened...
But there's more to it than that, I think, because I think generally there's enough cynicism on the internet that while things might not be rejected, they generally aren't also just accepted as truth. And yet in this thread Ahtman suggested it wasn't true, a couple of others said they wanted to know more, but pretty much everyone else just accepted it and used it as proof that schools had gone mad, mad I tells ya.
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2014/08/21 14:53:38
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
Seriously... pretty soon the American War of Independence will have been harshly decided over strong language and louder fireworks... simply because that word or any action directly related to it cannot be used
Never happen. The overwhelming majority of textbooks in the US are written in Texas. You can try telling a Texan to not write about guns. I'll stand over here.
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2014/08/21 15:00:48
Subject: Re:A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
DarkTraveler777 wrote: I graduated high school in 2000. Things were starting to get a little weird my senior year after Colombine's mass shooting, but god damn am I glad I got out when I did. If writing about shooting a dinosaur could get you arrested I can only imagine the rap sheet I would have if I were in school now. At the time I was DMing a long running Vampire: The Masquerade games set in a nearby city. All my notes on Sabbat blood rituals, weapons caches, and attack plans for demolishing a hotel that was owned by the Prince of the city surely would have resulted in my immediate placement on Death Row.
That reminds me of an story I read in a book about the history of Wargaming where a group of people in the UK where playing a game of Diplomacy via Letter and Telegram in the early 70's.
One player in a moment of extreme naivety decided to send a Telegram to his fellow players to whom he was allied, simply stating 'Attack on Liverpool confirmed". Later that day the anti terrorist squad kicked in his front door.
It was all sorted out relatively quickly, the police investigated and confirmed that this man was involved in a game and not a terrorist and he was released without charge.
Funny story, however I can't help but feel that today a similar error today would result in charges under the Communications Act 2003 as opposed to police using their common sense and releasing the man without charge once his story was confirmed.
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2014/08/21 15:11:07
Subject: A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended aft
squidhills wrote: Never happen. The overwhelming majority of textbooks in the US are written in Texas. You can try telling a Texan to not write about guns. I'll stand over here.
I can see this changing over time. The Texas Board of Education have tried to write Thomas Jefferson out of history, presumably because he was not a Christian, they endlessly keep trying to insert science denial into science textbooks. At some point, states have to realize that books designed to satisfy the Texas Board of Education, which quite frankly is a joke (sorry Frazzled), are not a good source of educational material for their children.
A good movie, The Revisionaries, was produced detailing the kind of unabashed shenanigans that go on in the Texas Board of Education. It's not pretty to watch, but its important to behold.
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