Arenât there laws against entrapment?
You canât let stuff like that get in the way of keeping our kids off drugs! Plus, everybody knows its the autistic SPED cases who have the hustle and the contacts to move most of the drugs in a given school. They are, like, the pipeline, man.
Fist thought was âagainâ, and then I read the story and asked âagainâ? Only this time instead of a girl begging and pleading itâs a guy taking advantage of a guy that really canât handle social cues and had no friends.
Canât the texts prove that he wouldnât have done this if his âfriendâ had been the instigator? Iâve got a sister with mental problems. I had a⌠unique sort of development. So this? This is monstrous to me.
âZero Tolerance Policyâ = âZero Thinking Policyâ
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Edit: Zero tolerance as an approach against drugs, was originally designed as a part of the War on Drugs under Ronald Reagan
I canât evenâŚ
assholes, the whole lot.
I canât help but think âDeputy Danâ is about to have his whole life hacked for going after a kid with mental issues.
The worst part is all charges were dropped, and the school is still denying him attendance because of âno toleranceâ reasons. Despite a court ruling.
Just another successful âvictoryâ in the never-ending battle on the war on drugs.
âNo Toleranceâ is âNo Common Senseâ. It has been a bad idea from the start, and Iâm glad that people are finally starting to realize that.
Twenty-two students were arrested - the majority of them are reported to be special needs students like the Snodgrassâ son.
Thatâs a hell of a way to try to drive a schoolâs scores up. Canât be an attempt to drive costs down, since the schoolâs still fighting even though heâll have graduated before the court case is over.
21 of the 22 apparently didnât fight the charges however. They probably saved a good chunk of change on the special needs program, the lawsuit is probably more expensive in the long run however.
Reason Magazine? This story is back from 2012. The family even put up a petition in December 2012. It was covered again by Reddit in February. Here is the familyâs online petition from December when it all went down:
This is why government schools are bad. Home Schooling by his parents could have avoided this and the permanent damage this school did to their son. Another data point to opt out of public(government) school.
Actually, this is why some government schools are bad.
There are plenty of government schools which wouldnât approve of this nonsense.
And homeschooling isnât for everyone. All parents should have a dependable, satisfying resource for their kidsâ education.
I say this as a parent whoâs been homeschooling for over ten years, and who is highly critical of the public schooling paradigm. We need public schools. But we have to make it easier to get rid of board members and administrators who would sign off on and defend programs like this.
I didnât know about it until I saw this video, so Iâm glad Reason made it and Mark shared it.
And probably at least a few private schools which would.
I come to BoingBoing for interesting news, but something thatâs been covered by MSN, ABC, Reddit, etc. and hasnât really moved forward seems just strange to me. Honestly,I agree that the war on drugs continues to be a ginormous waste of resources when there is real crime elsewhere.
Of course, I forgot what was news yesterday, so pretty much every day is a new news day for me.
Cheers on Hump Day!
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