Student suspended for handstands, cartwheels

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax

Originally posted by: mobobuff
[If you can't see the problem with taking a student OUT OF CLASS for a harmless playful activity on the PLAYGROUND during a RECESS... :disgust:

They didn't take her out of class for doing gymnastics in the playground. They suspended her because she ignored the teachers and the principle at her school.

If her parents disagreed with not being able to practice gymnastics in the playground, then they should have spoken to the teachers and principle. Disobeying authority should not be an option as a child.

You really don't get it.

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts

Teach your dumbass kids to listen when they are given directions from an authority figure. Can't follow simple directions, can't whine about getting suspended. Must have some dumbass parents that can't teach their stupid kid how to behave...

And you're just a retard. It's a public school, not a boot camp. They aren't "authority figures", they are (supposed) to be teachers and adults.


For the last time, read this slowly, and try to comprehend it.

The girl was suspended for playing on a playground.

Teachers and principals are ignored all the time in public schools, it doesn't get them suspended. Suspension, is NOT the answer for this sort of offense. Classtime is important. There, they can learn the difference between the spellings of "principle" and "principal".

 

[slightlyhuman]

wtf, watching out for her safety?


i call bs, when i was that age, me and my buddies caught bee's tore the wings off and met under the big rainbow slide and made bets with lunch money on whos bee would sting/kill the others bee first.


damn i took tons of lunch money back then

 

[deerslayer]

My God, that's rediculous.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Some interesting additional items as reported in different stories:

How much advance warning did the girl have?
"San Jose-Edison Academy Principal Denise Patton said she's warned Deirdre numerous times, talked to her parents and given her lunch detention, but the 90-pound gymnast won't stay on the ground, so she had to suspend her."

Where was she doing this?
"They said gymnastics on the playground creates an unsafe situation."

How long is her suspension?
"Deirdre... will be allowed to return to school Monday."

I think that the punishment is a bit excessive, but, if the principal's statement is accurate, then it looks like it became more about deliberately defying authority than the actual gymnastic stunts.

Good work. I hadn't put in any extra effort to find out more details. Nevertheless, my original statement remains the same. I really don't think she should have been asked to stop in the first place, especially in light of the "playground" statement. But even so, she was and she should have respected their authority (and then gone home and bitched about it to her folks who should have then brought it up with the teacher/principal/PTA). HOWEVER, I also really think that an after school detention would have been much more effective than a suspension.

Perhaps the school expected the parents to be on their side, but that's not the case 'cause the parents may also feel she shouldn't have been asked to stop in the first place. So the girl is basically getting rewarded by having a little vacation from school. I mean, I'd bet the parent's chastized her about not obeying the authority, but that's probably as far as it went.

So hopefully the school will learn from, imo, their mistake and punish her properly by taking something away. In this case, what should have been taken away was her free time via after school detention.

 

[DeRusto]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: DeRusto
that's a load of sh|t too.. it doesnt take any more bandwidth to display that than it does to display this : :|

Yes it does. Every single one of those becomes a lengthy HTML string. How do you think that code gets to your computer, osmosis?

View the source, copy out the section & save it to a text file.

I just created a 48KB text file of nothing but his stupid "art." With three appearances in this thread that's 150K of that garbage.

Viper GTS

Yeah, I know that..but it was early and I didn't think about that fact until after I replied..and by that time I just didn't care anymore but still, yllus it more correcter

 

[Blastomyces]

edit DP

 

[Blastomyces]

If she she hit someone, you know some asshat lawyer would sue the school for $94594935943 for not providing a safe environment or some BS like that.

 

[oogabooga]

i think the school made a justifiable decision, not saying it's right persay, but that kid falling ,hurting someone else would cause a world of problems. Their actions are justifiable because she repeatedly refused to listen to what teachers said. I don't remember elementry school well, but i knew well enough to not disobey my teachers multiple times.

 

[BlamoHammer]

Since she is a gymnast by hobby I'm assuming her parents are thinking she's the next Mary Lou Retton and pushing her quite hard into the sport. I wouldn't be suprised if she has developed an elitist typoe attitude because of this and simply defied the achol administration because she didnt thikn she had to listen. I agree with those who see no problem with the girl practicing on the playground, but she was asked to stop and therefore should have stopped, not matter how asinine the reason.

And for the poster who compared asking her to stop doing cartwheels to asking her to stop blinking...stop posting.