Eagle Scout's penalty stands

[Hotdoger]

More zero tolerance idiocy!

On Wednesday night, the Lansingburgh Central School District board of education rejected Whalen's appeal of the punishment and decided not to expunge the blemish on the record of the Eagle Scout suspended for having a pocketknife in his car while the vehicle was on the grounds of Lansingburgh High School.
Whalen received a 20-day suspension in September after he turned over to school administrators a 1 1/2-inch knife that he kept in his glove box as part of a car survival kit. He returned to school in October. Whalen has said he does not know how school officials learned he had a pocketknife in his car, but suspects another student may have tipped off administrators in an attempt to pull a prank on him.


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[MrsGungho]

another fine example of zero tolerance, no brain.

 

[UltraRick]

I feel sorry for the scout. Dumbass school board!

 

[SavageEagle]

Whalen has said he does not know how school officials learned he had a pocketknife in his car, but suspects another student may have tipped off administrators in an attempt to pull a prank on him.

AHER AHER AHER! I TOWD ON WOU FER HAVIN A KANEEF IN UR CAR DOOOD! HA HA

*BAM*

The End.

 

[PatriotPride]

20 days!?!?!?!?! That's an entire MONTH of school---pissed away because some idiots have to have "zero tolerance". RIDICULOUS.

 

[Roadie]

Oh NOOEEES, an evil Scout with a knife, everybody RUN!

I was a Scout, and I carried a small knife that was my dad's as a youngster, and a Swiss Army knife from 13 years old on.

The teachers knew it, and nobody thought twice about it.

Edit: A 1 1/2 INCH knife in a survival kit, is a WEAPON??? Lord help us.

 

[PapaScout]

Justice is blind... and mildly retarded <sic>

 

[JBusch8899]

Knife in car=20 day suspension

What does someone receive for the cafeteria food fight?

 

[SavageEagle]

Knife in car=20 day suspension

What does someone receive for the cafeteria food fight?

30 day suspension. If you throw the tray like a Frisbee at the teacher on duty, you'll get an expulsion.

 

[POC]

I'd dare say that the screwdriver in most everyone elses car is more dangerous than an inch and a half long knife.

 

[TheLoneRaider]

What does someone receive for the cafeteria food fight?

I got a week of in school suspension for that in the 90's lol

 

[JBusch8899]

I'd dare say that the screwdriver in most everyone elses car is more dangerous than an inch and a half long knife.

That, or a lug wrench.

 

[Goosepond Monster]

I carried a knife in my pocket every day of high school from 95-99 and I'm pretty sure I carried one the two years I was in junior high as well. This is an absolute joke.

 

[SavageEagle]

I carried a knife in my pocket every day of high school from 95-99 and I'm pretty sure I carried one the two years I was in junior high as well. This is an absolute joke.

You're right, it is. But because we have a bunch of whiny yuppies with kids now in school, PCness and fear has taken the place of common sense and personal responsibility.

We should lobby schools to require self defense martial arts, like Tae Kwon Do, as required curriculum in 5th, 8th, and 9th grades. IMHO of course.

 

[Roadie]

I'd dare say that the screwdriver in most everyone elses car is more dangerous than an inch and a half long knife.

That, or a lug wrench.

Ted Bundy killed most of his victims with either a tire iron or screw driver....

BAN them all!

 

[BE Mike]

I'm not surprised. Aren't these the same people who can't teach Johnny how to read and write, but spread the seeds of lies of the left-wing to our children?

 

[Modhydro]

Changing times I guess

When I was in High School in Hobart in the mid 1980's my keyring was (and still is) a nice little Schrade knife my dad gave me for a birthday. Teachers knew I had it and a few times they even asked if they could borrow it for a minute in class! Things were a lot simpler then though, if you screwed up, there were consequences. We understood that we were responsible for our actions. The teachers and administrators were also allowed to make judgement calls based on circumstances and facts.

Boy do I miss those days......

Steve

 

[EMC0853]

What a joke. This is so typical of a society gone mad. The knife was in a glove compartment and for that "offense" he gets a month suspension? It's nuts. Hope the prankster had a real good laugh.

 

[ATM]

You'd think, after the MANY ridiculous "zero tolerance" debacles of the past several years, policy writers would make a serious effort to create at least 1% tolerance rules. You know... afford themselves an out for things like this?

Why aren't they embarrassed by all these asinine affronts to reasonability?


Unreal.

 

[JBusch8899]

You'd think, after the MANY ridiculous "zero tolerance" debacles of the past several years, policy writers would make a serious effort to create at least 1% tolerance rules. You know... afford themselves an out for things like this?

Why aren't they embarrassed by all these asinine affronts to reasonability?

Unreal.

To expound upon this, why haven't those same policy deciders, ever created a "zero tolerance" rule that would apply to themselves?

Its hubris at it's very height.