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Warning: Totalitarianism
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Warning: Totalitarianism

Even my local board of education wont tolerate my totalitarian school.

Recently a fight broke out at my school. Several were suspended, even those who were not involved directly in the fight. A kid (we'll call him Eli) beat up another kid, who we will call Andy. A friend of both and member of an anti bullying group, he broke up the fight. They all went to the office.

On a single piece of evidence from Eli's mom (the group message that lead up to this) and some blaming, at least 5 people were wrongfully suspended. On this claim below the principal said she could suspend for stuff outside of school.

"If something happens outside of school that causes disruption I can suspend for it."

She got the sentencing wrong, whch means she deceived the students purposefully or not. This affects disciplinary action greatly. The sentencing is:

"If a student does something outside of school that could be reasonably expected to cause disruption you could be suspended."

Yesterday somebody appealed unofficially to the Superintendent and all but Eli's suspension was reversed. They did not conduct a proper investigation. As for the sentencing error, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law, and this is good evidence.

It's a wonderful thing to know the law.[/Hidden]

"Thou shalt not be an asshole"
-The one commandment of atheism.

SubCulture said
"If you call xcriteria a shithead, he will write a ten page essay on why he is not a shithead, link you to a tedtalk on bullying and the tvtropes page on insults. After reading and watching all that you would evaluate your life and decide to never call anyone a shithead ever again."
03-27-2014 06:51 AM
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Warning: Totalitarianism

I wouldn't really call it totalitarianism as much as bureaucratic excess.
03-27-2014 07:18 AM
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RE: Warning: Totalitarianism

(03-27-2014 07:18 AM)Dr. Brown Wrote:  I wouldn't really call it totalitarianism as much as bureaucratic excess.
Indeed; that's almost exactly what this is.

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