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Middle School Students Suspended for Possession of Oregano?

psychobrew · 2011-03-17 08:24:17

Link.This zero tolerance policy has got to be abolished. Even if it was a practical joke, you don't expect middle school students to always make rational decisions and I find it offensive that something you do as a kid can impact your ability to attend college. Kids should be allowed to be kids. Should they be punished? Probably, butafew hoursof detention should be more than enough to teach them a lesson.Is it me or do school officials go on power trips too often? The main concern here is what is best for the kids and suspension isn't it. One more reason to go to private schools I guess.Many can get their point accross without screwing a student over.

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Saturos3091

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#51 Saturos3091

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[QUOTE="Saturos3091"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]
Unfortunately you gotta make sure you don't bring these things on campous. If I had something in my car that I knew wasn't allowed on school grounds, I'd tripple check to make sure it's not in there when I'm at school.
Pirate700

Yeah, but don't you think it's a little ridiculous? It's not exactly rational for schools to act this way, especially when all it does is cost taxpayers more money...

Suspending the kid doesn't cost the school anything.

No, but some kids getting expelled for something like that does, especially if they're arrested for it. The point is it's a useless punishment. In basic psychology you'll learn that this kind of punishment is not going to help or prevent anyone from doing the same in the future, nor will it help the person in question to "re-evaluate" what they did.

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#52 curono

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[QUOTE="curono"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]
Kids do stupid **** today. He claimed he was "holding it for a friend". Who says he wasn't trying to sell it fake pot to some dumb kids at school for a quick buck. The bottom line is he should have had the sense not to have a bag filled with oregano in school as it would at the very least look extremely bad.
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Look, you cant suspend people based on "My paranoid self thinks he might...". The best he could have done with that joke would be to have a small talk about drugs and call him to reason. Not just skip everything and go straight to punishing.

They should start punishing students that are caught with glue, a substance that is far more harmful sniffing than a cooking spice.

Well... not EVERY glue is useful for sniffing.. But I do get your point. Inhalants are way more dangerous than oregano.

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#53 stanleycup98

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[QUOTE="Saturos3091"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]
Unfortunately you gotta make sure you don't bring these things on campous. If I had something in my car that I knew wasn't allowed on school grounds, I'd tripple check to make sure it's not in there when I'm at school.
Pirate700

Yeah, but don't you think it's a little ridiculous? It's not exactly rational for schools to act this way, especially when all it does is cost taxpayers more money...

Suspending the kid doesn't cost the school anything.

Yes, but a legal dispute will.

I don't understand how you can honestly say that a kid who had possession of oregano for a short time (not to say that he is telling the truth, but there is no evidence to the contrary, so it would be stupid to assume he was trying to sell it) should be expelled from school and essentially have his future damaged significantly. That is just stupid.

Hell, where I live, people caught selling heroine don't even get expelled. I have sharp knives on campus every day (although they are for a class).

The school gains no benefit from expelling kids who have oregano. Give them detention, but not expulsion. That is ridiculous and a gross overstep of their authority. Maybe if this happened in high school, they should suspend the person who brought it for a brief time (1-3 days).

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