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Not giving the teacher your phone if they catch you using it can result in suspension.
You can also get suspended for being near people who do drugs.
I'm sure there were other rules that were really bad but I didn't pay much attention at the assembly. Those are the two I can remember right now.
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(08-24-2013 02:59 PM)HeartoftheNorth Wrote: Not giving the teacher your phone if they catch you using it can result in suspension.
You can also get suspended for being near people who do drugs.
I'm sure there were other rules that were really bad but I didn't pay much attention at the assembly. Those are the two I can remember right now.
First one is a simple nuisance but the second is plain stupid. Perhaps that logic should be applied to law enforcement. Next time Im in a bank that gets robbed, I guess theyll toss me in for armed robbery(me and every other hostage).
Yes, but at least those are clearly defined. My school made sure that the rules were broad.
"Not conforming to an authourity's instruction will get you punished." and shit like that.
One time, a kid announced that he was going to get his watch, and headed to the door. The teacher threatened him with a detention for leaving the class, so he went back to his desk. She gave him the detention anyway. He said that he should just go to his locker because he didn't earn that detention, but she threatened him with another one, so he stayed put.
That was perfectly fine, thanks to the rules. In my opinion, a student being punished for a stupid crime is better than a student being punished for a innocent act that could be a crime when the teacher said so.
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(08-25-2013 05:23 PM)HeartoftheNorth Wrote: Oh yeah, I just remembered they also said that fighting wasn't allowed because it's "disruptive".
Not because, you know, people get hurt.
They don't want students to see fights because it's the remotely exciting thing in a rather drab, boring day in an authoritarian prison for youth school.
(08-26-2013 01:19 AM)Hansgrohe Wrote: They don't want students to see fights because it's the remotely exciting thing in a rather drab, boring day in an authoritarian prison for youthschool.
WTF? When you guys learn to call things what they are? LMAO.
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"CONSENSUAL incest is not wrong. (Abuse victims: being abused by a relative does not make it wrong for others to have consensual incest, any more than rape by a stranger makes all sex wrong. Sex and assault/molestation are two different things.) An aversion became common in humans that aided in population growth as one disease couldn't wipe out the human race. That's not a problem anymore.
Consensual incest is very common. You know people who have been involved, whether you know it or not.
There is no rational reason for keeping laws or taboos against consensual
incest that is consistently applied to other relationships. Personal disgust or religion is only a reason why one person would not want to personally engage in what I call consanguinamory, not why someone else shouldn't do it. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Youthful experimentation between close relatives close in age is not uncommon, and there are more people than you'd think out there who are in lifelong healthy, happy relationships with a close relative. It isn't for everyone, but we're not all going to want to have each others' love lives, now are we? If someone thinks YOUR love life is disgusting, should you be thrown in prison?
Some people try to justify their prejudice against consanguineous sex and
marriage by being part-time eugenicists and saying that such relationships inevitably lead to “mutant” or “deformed” babies. This argument can be refuted on several fronts. 1. Some consanguineous relationships involve only people of the same gender. 2. Not all mixed-gender relationships birth biological children. 3. Most births to consanguineous parents do not produce children with significant birth defects or other genetic problems; while births to other parents do sometimes have birth defects. 4. We don’t prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease. It is true that in general, children born to consanguineous parents have an increased chance of these problems than those born to nonconsanguineous parents, but the odds are still minimal. Unless someone is willing to deny reproductive rights and medical privacy to others and force everyone to take genetic tests and bar carriers and the congenitally disabled and women over 35 from having children, then equal protection principles prevent this from being a justification to bar this freedom of association and freedom to marry.
Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their sister is their best friend. Why can’t their sister be a wife, too?
Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.
Some say “There are so many people outside of your family." There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. So, this isn't a good reason either. Let consenting adults love each other the way they want!"-Keith Pullman
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