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A suspension is nothing, they will still graduate with honors (most students graduate with honors you have to be a true moron not to), they will still walk, and they will still head off to whatever prestigious university their parents bought their way into. Most importantly this will happen exactly the same next year.
If the school hands out expulsions, or if charges are filled and stick then I will be impressed
I can tell you live in the vicinity bballad :D , i know what its like to live near some "ritzy" folks. They always seem to find a way to escape justice.
Frame and B, you know what makes me mad? at least one student is SUEING THE SCHOOL! and they're probably gonna win, too.
I hear ya. All the lawsuits flying around these days makes me sick. It's beginning to put doctors out of work, as well as many other fine folks. :(
johnnybluecrush,
Don't you realize that everyone is a victim..., if they have the money to pay for a lawyer. In my highschool, there were kids that couldn't get in trouble. Hell, they stole the mascot (a huge Mac bulldog, as in the trucking company) and because they were the kids of lawyers and business men, the threat of suspension was dismissed entirely.
Framework,
I know a lot of people with stories like you. I started hanging out at the diner in town at night with my friends and became friends with a lot of NA guys. One of which actually used to be in the marching band, but he disapeared from school to go to rehab after sophomore year and then finished at the mall school (but you gotta give him credit for graduating). They are some great guys, now. In highschool I would never have hung out with them, they would have scared the piss out of me, I can tolerate stoners, heroine and coke are entirely different demons.
bballad, out of 260-ish, I was one of 20 to graduate with honors, the rest were a combination of the afore mention kids of lawyers and businessmen, and people that worked their butts off, and then me and a couple others that for some reason didn't try at anything but despite their best efforts to remain mediocre graduated at the head of the class. (A feat which I largely credit to Calculus, a class that I did not take but that managed to lower the GPA's of those ahead of me enough to put me closer to the top, MUAHAHA)Quote:
most students graduate with honors you have to be a true moron not to
Um, yah, so sueing the school makes sense, lets take money out of their budget that they could be using to educate children. It would be a lot easier to vote out the School Board and then replace the administration, but nah, why do something productive, automaticly leap to the litigious urges.
Dhej
Sometimes sueing isn't for money.
In Milton MA, a very affluent town near Boston, a few years ago. A black man was sitting in his car with the engine idling waiting for his daughter to come out of a house where she was attending a shower, baby or wedding I forget. He owned an expensive Mercedes with MD plates (doctor).
Two of Milton's "finest" police pulled in back of him and before they were done harassing him had him handcuffed on the ground.
He sued, half a mil or fire the cops. The town chose the money and lost their case.
In Illinois the school administration could be sued for removal, no?
Since I posted last, I read the school district is suspending 19 students for 10 days and recomending expulsion.
One of the suspendies has filed an appeal to delay the suspension so that she can go to her prom. Do we not understand the word punishment?
No they don't understand punishemnt, these are kids that haven't heard the word no their entire life why would they listen now. The question I have is who is sueing the school, one of the hazed girls, or one of the punished ones? If it was the hazed girl's parents they are well with in their rights as this has been going on for 25+ years and the school knew about it. If it is a punished girl's parents I am not supreised but hoplfuly it gets thrown out of court. Don't feel too bad about the school though, in IL schools get money from local property taxes, this school is probalbly one of the wealthyist in the country and even if it looses a few Mil it will not be affected.
Personally I am disgusted just by reading the article. I went through high school, and they're were no hazing... well except for newbie cheerleaders, the ones on the squad would kidnap the ones who made the team, put lipstick all over their faces, and make them walk the mall in their jammies. But even this was with the girls parents permission. And even the cheer n00b's have fun. ....
But I would like to ask these girls a question....Who collected the feces in the first place?
The feces collection is what shows that this isn't a new thing/escalation that just happened this year. The seniors mothers collected the feces. They also supplied the beer. This has been going on for well over 20 years probably a lot more, and probably wont end after this year.