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Post by Dragon Zachski on Dec 22, 2011 22:10:45 GMT -5
So should the school put students in detention for using cardboard lightsabers because they "look like real lightsabers"? Because that's the logic you're using here. And it's a stupid policy. For all you know, the kids playing with cardboard lightsabers are fighting each other at home using REAL swords. You didn't actually start to get "pushed to that point" until you actually DID start to defend the school. No blame-shifting for you.
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Post by dasfuchs on Dec 22, 2011 22:28:16 GMT -5
So should the school put students in detention for using cardboard lightsabers because they "look like real lightsabers"? Because that's the logic you're using here. And it's a stupid policy. I never said it was...in fact I believe you'll see I said it wasn't. Possibly. How many incidents occour at school involving a student stabbing multiple people with a sword on a sword rampage? Hell, how many incidents do people use swords that garner outcry beyond the families of the victim and culprit? How many incidents involve swords, period. Frankly it's not something I think anyone worries about as guns are common place, swords are not. [/quote] Not blame shifting. I went somewhere I wasn't willing to go and now find myself there. So I'm trying to do my best to defend a situation I don't really like, but has to do with my overall point.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Dec 22, 2011 22:55:43 GMT -5
Oh please. What was he going to do? Get pepperoni on everyone?
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Post by nickiknack on Dec 23, 2011 0:14:43 GMT -5
Three cheers for another piece of zero-tolerance stupidity
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Post by Haseen on Dec 23, 2011 5:47:19 GMT -5
It never really was about guns. That's far too stupid to make any sense, even for my cynical ass.
He was about to uncover something far bigger than he could comprehend.
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Post by The_L on Dec 23, 2011 13:07:29 GMT -5
It never really was about guns. That's far too stupid to make any sense, even for my cynical ass. He was about to uncover something far bigger than he could comprehend. You win the thread.
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Post by xotan on Dec 23, 2011 14:48:35 GMT -5
Everyone knows a pizza is a weapon of mass digestion. Take the little kid out and hang him, like they do in Iran. /sarcasm
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Dec 23, 2011 14:57:07 GMT -5
In elementary school, my friends and I liked to play Harry Potter make-believe. Obviously we needed wands, so we needed a stick we could wave around. But the teacher said that we weren't allowed to pick up sticks, let alone point them at other people because it "looked threatening." So the next time we went out for recess, we used brown construction paper rolled up into cylinders. The teacher mistook it for a stick at first, but then said it was okay.
But we still couldn't point the paper wands at anyone.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Dec 23, 2011 15:20:11 GMT -5
In elementary school, my friends and I liked to play Harry Potter make-believe. Obviously we needed wands, so we needed a stick we could wave around. But the teacher said that we weren't allowed to pick up sticks, let alone point them at other people because it "looked threatening." So the next time we went out for recess, we used brown construction paper rolled up into cylinders. The teacher mistook it for a stick at first, but then said it was okay. But we still couldn't point the paper wands at anyone. Now see, I can see that causing far more problems than it solves
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Dec 23, 2011 23:16:55 GMT -5
But we still couldn't point the paper wands at anyone. Heh. When I was in elementary school, a kid threw a rock-filled snowball at my friend and nearly blinded her (I mean that literally -- she had to be rushed to the ER, and was told that she would have lost at least partial vision if the damage had been much worse). The kid who did it didn't even get an in-school suspension, he just had to apologize to her. Hell, when we went to tell the principal (who happened to be sitting on the end end of the schoolyard, not noticing that children were undergoing grievous bodily harm 30 feet away from him) about what happened immediately after she'd been hit, he just looked at her eye, said it looked fine, then sent her on her way. A few minutes later she asked me to check it out, since we didn't trust the principal's assessment, which was when we discovered that her normally blue iris was now reddish-brown. In any case, it's hard to imagine them being that lax nowadays. Not that my school's reaction was proper, either, but it's weird to see just how quickly things have changed since then. I'm not even that much older than you. :\
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Dec 24, 2011 1:14:06 GMT -5
Okay... Can someone post an article about a decent school that treats its students well? Is there even such an article? I could use some faith in humanity here, I'm running dangerously low
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Dec 24, 2011 2:19:02 GMT -5
Okay... Can someone post an article about a decent school that treats its students well? Is there even such an article? I could use some faith in humanity here, I'm running dangerously low I don't have any links to articles, but I do have an anecdote relating to the best teacher I had in elementary school. When I was 11, I was bullied incessantly. I always had troubles with the kids at that school, but the situation got particularly bad during the final year, in grade six. This culminated with all but one of my "friends" turning against me after the ringleader recruited them in the harassment. It eventually got to the point where I started faking sick so I didn't have to go to school. My teacher saw that this was going on and, instead of just ignoring like every other teacher, decided to put her foot down. One day, while I was away from school, she sat the entire class down and reamed them out for their behavior, then made them all share incidents when they had been bullied themselves and explain how it made them feel. In essence, she shamed the hell out of them. After that, the bullying wasn't anywhere near as bad. Sure, kids were still assholes at times -- being a jerk is the childhood modus operandi -- but things got much, much better.
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