Banned from grad for senior prank

[Edwina's Secretary]

As for the swearing, I think it's stupid to get suspended for that to at least at my school it would be because the teachers swear at us too, so honestly what do they expect when they give the kids no respect and are setting that example.[/color][/b]

Wow I wish my mother would understand this..

I must say I do not believe you. I do not believe teachers call students M*&^&*^F)(*()*ers. If they do, they should be fired.

They certainly need to spend more time teaching writing skills.

What prank would you consider sufficient for disciplinary action? Someone physically hurt? An animal hurt? The amount of money it cost to clean up after the prank?

A prank is a prank. Someone has to clean up after the mess. The school has to buy new trays.

[Cataholic]

Interesting in observing what side someone comes down on- too severe, or not too severe. Seems pretty tied into how old (read that experienced, mature, worldly, however you like) the voter is.

Things I found 'prankish' as a younger person; egging cars and TPing someones house. I now look back on those things and think, "Geez, what kind of idiot was I"? How stupid could I (my friends, too) have been? VERY.


To talk to ANY person like that? WOW. Those just aren't the sort of things one wakes up and says, "Today, I am going to start this sort of disrespectfulness".

High School should be viewed as A training ground for the 'real world'. So, better he learn his actions affect his life NOW when he isn't responsible for much besides pocket money and gas money.

[RICHARD]

I just read a story about 5 kids who were denied their diplomas because of the people who were there to watch the ceremony.

_I saw those AHs that disprupted a college ceremony because a GWB crony came to speak-

Now, Y'all have freedom of speech, but why are you going to wreck a gathering where YOU are not the only ones with an opinion, Pro or Con.

I mean some people made a sacrifice to GET thru school and some mouthy punks have to turn it into a clip on the evening news?

Politics has nothing to do with it...I am talking DECORUM.

Oops, Half the graduating class probably don't know what it meant.

----------

back to the original point......

The families of the students SIGNED a contract saying that they would maintain their 'cool' during the ceremony and not yell or scream....so the top kid in the class is denied their diploma because her stupid arse family and four thers can't be quiet for a minute....Now they are suing the district.

I use the term effing morons too much. These are Stupid Effing Morons.

[lizbud]

but it just seems that this kid is being denied a life changing moment and life long memory for something so stupid and petty. I mean, there are kids out there that harass, abuse, and basically torture other students and yet NOTHING is done about it. This kid pulls a stupid prank and he is banned from school property and his grad?

Seems to me the kid did have his "life changing moment" when he
decided to give in to a childish prank. Choices in life have consequences.
It's about time the boy learned that.

[crow_noir]

So why not just make the kid that did it pay for the new trays?

You learn a lot of respect for the things you have to pay for.

Even if i accidentally broke a toy i never got a replacement. That was that.

People in this thread keep talking about "The Real World." In the real world the phrase goes "You broke it, you bought it."

I must say I do not believe you. I do not believe teachers call students M*&^&*^F)(*()*ers. If they do, they should be fired.

They certainly need to spend more time teaching writing skills.

What prank would you consider sufficient for disciplinary action? Someone physically hurt? An animal hurt? The amount of money it cost to clean up after the prank?

A prank is a prank. Someone has to clean up after the mess. The school has to buy new trays.

[buttercup132]

So why not just make the kid that did it pay for the new trays?

You learn a lot of respect for the things you have to pay for.

Even if i accidentally broke a toy i never got a replacement. That was that.

People in this thread keep talking about "The Real World." In the real world the phrase goes "You broke it, you bought it."

That kind of punishment would be better IMO.

And yes the teachers say that and no they aren't fired. Nobody cares enough to go and report them.

One of my teachers is sexist and makes fun of guys who do "sissy" sports, in every class he teaches. Last year he made fun of my friend for getting stabbed all because he's 20 and still bmx's. My friends obviously were mad, they were graduating so for the prank they egged his car. They got in trouble the teacher still never has.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Because mommy would pay for it...teaching nothing...

[sparks19]

Because mommy would pay for it...teaching nothing...

well then that's a whole different issue. In my house.... If I damaged something.... I had to pay for it. Hence, my strong resistance to driving.... you get a whole new respect for cars when you have to pay to have the dents and scratches fixed in your mothers car lol. At 17 or 18 years old he should at least have a part time job I would hope....

But I have still been unsuccessful in finding the news story about this particular case.... I didn't actually hear it on the news... it was on a talk radio show and they were discussing it with the mother... and then some other people (I don't know who they were)

[buttercup132]

Because mommy would pay for it...teaching nothing...

Why do you assume that? Nice way to view teenagers I know my mom sure as heck wouldn't pay for it. It's stupid remarks like that, that make younger people disrespect their elders..

[lizbud]

Why do you assume that? Nice way to view teenagers I know my mom sure as heck wouldn't pay for it. It's stupid remarks like that, that make younger people disrespect their elders..

It's clear you don't understand respect. It is earned with wise choices
in the adult world. The world owes you nothing but a chance to earn respect
for yourself.

[K9soul]

Things have sure changed since I was in school, and I graduated in '93. I can't even imagine speaking in such a way to anyone when I was a kid, but especially an adult, or rolling my eyes at them. Maybe it is just how I was raised, but I certainly thank my mom for that. I always try to be respectful, even if it is not being reciprocated. It will just get you a lot farther in life with people you deal with on a day-to-day basis.

[Alysser]

I know this is off topic, but there are some teachers I would just will NEVER like. I never have talked back to a teacher, I always try and be polite to them. Saying sorry when I knock something down, saying thanks when they help me with something I don't understand, but some teachers I just cannot STAND, like my spanish teacher. She has no respect for my class, so even though I show her some respect, I will never like her.

Yes, I guess with certain kids, they have a right to yell at them, and I fully agree alot of the time but when a kid is DOING nothing wrong we get yelled at anyway. I hate when one kid or several, not the whole class, does something wrong, we all get extra work or extra lectures. ALOT of teachers at my school(especially the spanish teacher) pick on certain kids and it annoys the crap out of me. Please don't say you don't believe me, because if you weren't in our class you would have no idea what I am talking about and I guess will never fully understand. You can choose NOT to believe this whole post but I know it's true and it's really sad, IMO.

[sparks19]

I have to be honest here..... While I cannot stand it when kids speak like that to their elders and was always taught to not speak that way to my elders.... my temper did get the best of me once in highschool.

This is gonna sound like the stories your parents tell you about walking up hill both ways lol....

I missed the bus one day.... I could have just said screw it and stayed home and had my dad write me a note the next day excusing my absence... but I decided to walk..... in the middle of winter.... and it took me an hour and a half to walk there. So I missed my first class and got to my second class late (which was a gym class) when I got to class my teacher was harrassing me about being late.... so I told her my story about missing the bus and walking to school from where I lived in the cold and snow lol just so I wouldn't miss school all together. She didn't believe me and told me it was a likely story.... LOL I got so mad... I said "You don't believe me? feel my F*cking skin.... you think I just liek to sit out in the cold and snow just so I can be late for class? are you a crazy lady?" I got detention LOL but let me tell ya it was well worth it.

Was I in the right? no but sometimes your temper just gets the better of you.... I am sure everyone here has had a time when they have said something they probably shouldn't have said ....

[Lady's Human]

Said something I possibly shouldn't have to someone in charge? Yes. All the time in the Army.

Said something I shouldn't have to a teacher?

Never.

Not attending graduation would have been the least of my worries.

[K9soul]

Yes, I guess with certain kids, they have a right to yell at them, and I fully agree alot of the time but when a kid is DOING nothing wrong we get yelled at anyway. I hate when one kid or several, not the whole class, does something wrong, we all get extra work or extra lectures. ALOT of teachers at my school(especially the spanish teacher) pick on certain kids and it annoys the crap out of me. Please don't say you don't believe me, because if you weren't in our class you would have no idea what I am talking about and I guess will never fully understand. You can choose NOT to believe this whole post but I know it's true and it's really sad, IMO.

Alyssa, I never agreed with teachers who punish a whole class because of one student's behavior either. Their philosophy was it'd make the rest of us get hard on the other kid and make him/her behave, but it didn't work that way. I know there are difficult teachers, I had some too. You'll find there will always be difficult people to deal with no matter where you are, supervisors, co-workers, neighbors, landlords, etc etc. You just have to do the best you can and get through it, while trying to keep a hold of your own integrity. You can't control how they behave but you can control how you behave. I would never say that all teachers are infallible or kind or behave the way they should. They are people just like the rest of us and there are ones who behave poorly and ones who conduct themselves in a more respectful way. All you can do is try to be the bigger person. It won't be too long and you won't have to deal with that particular teacher anymore. I know how frustrating it can be.