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

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Originally Posted by wireties View Post
There is every need to qualify that. You guys are throwing a teacher under the bus, accusing him/her of being racist when he/she may be just following zero tolerance procedures in order to keep his/her job. The same goes for the school administration - they passed the buck up to the police. Why is it so hard for you to imagine that this is mostly just ridiculous bureaucracy?
Because, like I have been saying, I do NOT believe that Zero Tolerance covers "anything that looks electronic" or some similar wording. The teacher HAD to think something was suspicious about the device. They had to suspect him of malicious intent IF (and only if) ZT policy doesn't cover "electronic 7-seg displays" or the like. No bit of Zero Tolerance documentation I have found supports that. I would honestly love for you to prove me wrong.

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I have never said simply "the police questioned him too long". You added "simply" for effect.
I think you misread what I said. I was describing your wording as simple, not saying you used the word "simple".


I think it is important to note that accusing this teacher and administrator of racism in no way accuses other Texans or other adults at the school of racism. I think this goes without saying.