Two Students Expelled For Kissing

[tigrpal]

My thoughts as a school principal:

1. Nice to see the school board supporting/ standing behind the school officials' decision(I would like to know who the officials are. Principal?)

2. I would like to know if there had been previous warnings or previous punishments to this couple. You can't count on the students' lawyers to give you that information and this report is only one lawyer's side of the issue. These kinds of reports like to make it sound like the kids did nothing wrong previously. Sometimes they have, sometimes they haven't.

3. If there there were previous warnings and/or previous lesser punishments and this couple had been "making out" in other places on school grounds not just the bus, then I think the school board could make a case for this being a proper punishment.

4. If this is a first offense, then a suspension from the bus for a short time would be a more appropriate first punishment. You can't deny a person's right to a public education because of kissing on a bus unless he/she has done it before, on school grounds, been warned, been punished, etc., and he/she continue to disobey the rule.

 

[ccs v2.0]

My thoughts exactly tigrpal, although I wasn't certainly anywhere near as eloquent.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

There was recently as story of 5th graders having intimate relations in class when the teacher was out. Were those kids expelled? They were suspended until their court date.

Comparatively, a young couple kissing is innocent.

The silly policy of "standing firmly" behind their decision is appalling! If the board doesn't back down from this nonsensical decision, it would be time to SUE for millions. Sad how school boards only listen to common sense once they are faced with litigation regarding such cold and inhumane decisions.

 

[oilyriser]

Is anyone harmed when two people kiss on a school bus?

 

[MarkC]

But they broke THE RULES!
Blatant defiance of authority.
They must be dealt with!

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: oilyriser
Is anyone harmed when two people kiss on a school bus?


It's traumatizing to withered up old school board members that no one would kiss when they were that age.

 

[oilyriser]

Yeah, that might be it. And they probably can't get any now, either.

I was comparing the two events:

1. two student kissing
2. two students being expelled

Which event is harmful?

 

[rjundi]

Just what the our country needs. Two uneducated young minds outcast by their society (school). The likely path next is drop out.

Another prime example of the failure of education.

 

[MarkC]

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

 

[MarkC]

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. "
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I thought they just wanted us to eat their margarine?

 

[MarkC]

That's what they want us to think!

 

[Win]

Originally Posted By: MarkC
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.



At least give H.L. Mencken credit for the quote.

 

[MarkC]

Oh yeah, forgive me.
I can't remember who said the second one, maybe it was also him.

 

[Win]

Might have been. He was a crusty old guy. Funny, though.

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: MarkC
Oh yeah, forgive me.
I can't remember who said the second one, maybe it was also him.



Yup, it was.

 

[alreadygone]

Have to say that unless there were previous warnings for similar actions, expulsion was a bit draconian.

Bob

 

[GMBoy]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
I draw the line at people watching a recording of teenagers making out.


Yeah, that may be child porn and the school board may all go to jail.

 

[GMBoy]

Originally Posted By: Win
Originally Posted By: ccs v2.0
The punishment does not fit the crime.


If I read the snippet correctly, the local school board did think that the punishment fit the crime. That's what they are there for - so long as proper procedures were followed, it's not mine, Pablo's, your's, or a Judge's place to be second guessing them.




Um, yes they should be second guessed. This is crazy. A little kiss may cost the boy a chance at a military academy! Punishment does not fir the "crime". Kids can't be kids anymore these days.

 

[GMBoy]

Originally Posted By: oilyriser
Yeah, that might be it. And they probably can't get any now, either.

I was comparing the two events:

1. two student kissing
2. two students being expelled

Which event is harmful?



2 kids being expelled.