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Monday Morning Miscellany: February 11, 2013
“[A website's] privacy policy required by this section shall be no more than 100 words and shall be written in clear and concise language at no greater than an eighth grade reading level” -from a bill being considered by California’s legislature: good idea in theory, but is it practical? This … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged guns, Internet, laws, Michael Bloomberg, Mulims, Muslims, New York City, prayer, privacy, religion, schools, Styrofoam
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Teacher Fired For Calling Her Students ”Future Criminals” on Facebook
Jennifer O’Brien, a New Jersey first grade teacher, has been fired for writing on her Facebook page “I’m not a teacher — I’m a warden for future criminals,” and that her students should take part in a “scared straight” program. She’d intended the posts to be read only by her … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Bickel, Managing Editor, Editorials, Polls
Tagged Bill Bickel, Editorials, Facebook, schools
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Colorado 7-Year-Old Suspended For Throwing an Imaginary Hand Grenade
“I think that when a child is trying to save the world, I don’t think he should be punished for it” -Mandy Watkins, mother of Colorado second-grader Alex Evans During recess, Alex threw an imaginary hand grenade into a box full of “pretend evil forces.” You’d think school officials would … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, News, Polls
Tagged polls, schools, zero-tolerance
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Kindergarten Girl Charged With Making a ”Terroristic Threat” — With a Hello Kitty Bubble Gun
Clarification and update: At the time the girl made the comment about shooting herself with the Hello Kitty bubble gun, she didn’t have the gun with her. She is reportedly back in school as of today. January 22, 2013: The title pretty much tells the story: five-year-old Pennsylvania girl says … Continue reading
Say, it’s only a paper gun…
In Philadelphia last week, a fifth-grader was reprimanded by her teacher, and told she could arrested, after bringing to school a sheet of paper her grandfather had folded into the shape of a gun. She hadn’t threatened anybody with it, hadn’t even said “bang,” and the sheet of paper was … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Bickel, Managing Editor, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Editorials, News
Tagged guns, schools, zero-tolerance
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Texas Legislator Calls for Armed ”School Marshals”
Texas governor Rick Perry wants to make schools safer by allowing all teachers and school administrators to carry concealed weapons — but this is just Ricky Perry being Rick Perry, and I choose not to dignify his idea with further comment (though feel free to do so, if you wish). … Continue reading
Posted in Bill Bickel, Managing Editor, Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Editorials, News, Polls
Tagged guns, school marshals, schools
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Sydney Spies, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Violence on College Campuses, and Teachers and Students Online
The first update is a non-update: Remember Sydney Spies, the Colorado high school senior who was going to sue her school (or the school board, or somebody) because the yearbook wouldn’t run any of her racy photos as her official graduation photo? With just a bit over three weeks remaining … Continue reading
14-Year-Old Girls Commit Anti-Semitic Vandalism, Get Expelled From School and Publicly Exposed by Jon Lovitz
Three 14-year-old girls attending Nobel Middle School in Northridge California, who allegedly had been bullying a Jewish classmate, used maple syrup to write the word “Jew” and draw swastikas in front of her home (a home owned by her grandparents, Holocaust survivors). They also left feces on the doorstep (though … Continue reading
Student Sues Over ”Jesus is Not a Homophobe” T-Shirt
Lambda Legal has filed a lawsuit against Waynesville (Ohio) High School on behalf of Maverick Couch, who was threatened with suspension if he wore his “Jesus is Not a Homophobe” t-shirt (he’d worn it to school months earlier, complied with the principal’s order to turn it inside out, then read … Continue reading
Students Suspended Over Racist Blog
Twin brothers at a Kansas high school have been suspended for 180 days for running what has been described as a racist blog, on their own computers, which they say was only intended to be viewed by friends. They’ve asked a federal judge to force the school district to reinstate … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, News, Polls
Tagged blogs, First Amendment, polls, racism, schools
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