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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

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Originally Posted by Foster View Post
So when you say "QFT == Quoted for Truth", you quoted both paragraphs.

This paragraph, I have a real problem with:



The paragraph starts out with "send it to the administration". Spend a few Google seconds to find the MacArthur High School School Policy. Spend a few minutes reading it. You will find that most things that have to do with "not conforming to the rules" end up with the police. I refer to these policys as "Flow charts to Fail". You should now Google your school policy and see how many things quickly get dumped into the police process.

It wasn't a legit bomb threat. She stuffed the "bomb" into a drawer. She then carted the "bomb" to the administration. The "bomb" set on their desk until the police arrived. The police questioned the student with the "bomb" present. So I'm going to take a wild stab and think that nobody thought it was a "bomb".
First I agree. I think the administration thought it was a hoax bomb. If it was that in reality that then it deserves serious consequences. I have not seen anything that says Ahmed thought or acted as it was that. Once you involve the police you open up a whole different set of rules & rights. The school as a civil authority has a right to question a student in way the police do not. Second as a teacher, you are stuck following the school's policies no matter how poorly thought out. Involving the police on routine school discipline issues is bad policy.

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The last part, "talking to lawyers" is how we got into this mess. Because people sue and school districts had to pay out lots of money, they now dump everything to the police. Days of a Vice Principal yelling at your child for being a cheesehead (*) are long gone. So if you can say "I'd sue" you get the "Flow chart to fail" as your reward.
The school system has gone way overboard on that. We need to advocate change in a reasonable way. Yes talking to lawyers should be the last resort. The school can afford more lawyers than I can anyway. I would hope reasonable people can come to a reasonable conclusion. I never came close to involving lawyers with my children school careers. But having on your school record suspended for making terrorist or bomb threats can effect the college you get into & rather or not you can get a security clearance later in life. That is worth a fight and not accepting it as "policy".
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