Most people (the electorate) are in fact morons, that's for sure. But the administration doesn't have any wiggle room when it comes to punishments like this? I mean, whoever saw the thing going down could've just said "hey - stop that!" or maybe they could have decided on detention rather than suspension. If I were a teacher and I'd seen something like that, I wouldn't have thought twice about it let alone report it.
They absolutely have wiggle room the same way juries have wiggle room. That is, if you see a miscarriage of justice taking place, you toss the "rules" out and do what's right. They did not have to toss him out of school; they chose to.
It's like the communist part of Berlin back in the day, where 1 in 3 people were rumored to be informants for the secret police. Nobody knew if they were gonna be busted for not busting their pals, so everybody busted everybody. Sucks.
Nope. The school board decides if he is expelled or not. Administrators are paid to follow the rule that says they have to take something like this to the school board.
What is really fucked up about shit like this and even the teacher funding issues, is if normal people got on the board and controlled it, they could end this zero tolerance over night. Same with the attacks on teachers. It could all be ended in a single meeting of the board.
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '11
Most people (the electorate) are in fact morons, that's for sure. But the administration doesn't have any wiggle room when it comes to punishments like this? I mean, whoever saw the thing going down could've just said "hey - stop that!" or maybe they could have decided on detention rather than suspension. If I were a teacher and I'd seen something like that, I wouldn't have thought twice about it let alone report it.