Student Expelled For Swearing On The Internet

Hamish Campbell said:
You were traveling to and from what was essentially a school function right? Kind of like an extended field trip. There's a reason why schools don't just hand the keys to the buses to any wide-eyed-pizza-face when he needs to get somewhere.

It might seem dumb, but what would the court (or public) think when it finds out the teenager who careened over a guardrail into oncoming traffic did so at the request and direction of his school? They'd probably say "well gee, if only this idiot were being driven by a parent or an experienced driver, certified to transport students, this may not have happened. Here's your million dollars in punitive damages".
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legally though he was the same as any adult driving me down their, plus if that was their policy it would of been nice for them to tell US that before we left, the only thing we were told about transportation from our town to dayton was that we would have to provide it ourselves, whether that was through an adult or ourselves they did NOT specify.
 
Hamish Campbell said:
That's a specious argument. The trade off for the free basic medical care given to inmates is, you know, being locked away in a violent prison. The trade off for the free basic medical care available to everyone else is being saddled with insurmountable debt for the rest of their life. But I agree, everyone on American soil should have free access to universal health care services.
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@!#$&^* Health maintenance is not a right! :eek: If you get sick and can't afford it, you should die honorably.
 
JosiahBradley said:
You don't see the problem??? A child loses the chance to get educated properly over a minor offense. Isn't education of the youth a fucking inalienable right? Thanks to freedom of speech I can say this without flinching. "Fuck off."
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You mean the brat cant get into another public school cause of this? Really?! Hey what about Private Schools?

Education is a privilege not a right. It's not suppose to be daycare. You go there to Learn. Schools hand out computers and shit so you can learn using new tools that past generations lacked... not so you can socialize or look up porn or game.
 
Education is a privilege not a right.
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Thomas Jefferson disagreed. He thought universal education necessary to the function of a free society, and that if we intended to remain both free and civilized, we had best educate the public.

The preparation of the voter so that he might express his opinion by means of the ballot, thus insuring political liberty, was one of the main goals of Jefferson's plan for education which asserted four basic principles:

  1. "that democracy cannot long exist without enlightenment.
  2. that it cannot function without wise and honest officials.
  3. that talent and virtue, needed in a free society, should be educated regardless of wealth, birth or other accidental condition.
  4. that the children of the poor must be thus educated at common expense." (as cited in Padover, 1952, p. 43)
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BettiePage said:
Education is a privilege not a right.
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American tradition holds otherwise as another poster pointed out. I think most would recognize that in modernity, an education is undoubtedly required in order to "promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". Universal education as a right is one of the genuine advances to humanity brought on by the spread of western styled democracy.
 
kontact said:
"You have the rights that the government, under which protection you live, gives you, as long as you act responsibly with respect to the law. No more, no less."

You make it sound like the Government are the supreme power of the land but in a democracy it is its people who are the supreme power. Something you seem to have forgotten. Oh right, but you will now claim the USA is a Republic and not a Democracy.
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...and read the Constitution. Who provides for the Government? The people. Laws apply even for the protection of the willfully ignorant, lucky for you.
 
Hamish Campbell said:
Do you really believe that inmates and illegal immigrants enjoy more rights and freedoms than average citizens in the US? If so, upon what information do you base that opinion?
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Average citizens in the US? No. Kids in high school? Yes.

My evidence? That article and having been to high school I guess arent good enough? I dont suppose you were home schooled or something? Canadian who thinks they're American by proximity?
 
BettiePage said:
You mean the brat cant get into another public school cause of this? Really?! Hey what about Private Schools?

Education is a privilege not a right. It's not suppose to be daycare. You go there to Learn. Schools hand out computers and shit so you can learn using new tools that past generations lacked... not so you can socialize or look up porn or game.
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Most schools are nothing more than holding pens where kids go to school just to get passed along to the next grade so they will be someone else's problem. This is especially true in the inner cities, in the poorest areas.

If you don't believe that, then I don't know what to say.
 
@BettiePage

"Education is a privilege not a right."

Taxes pay for the schools so it is a right, dumb fuck.
 
poee said:
Thomas Jefferson disagreed. He thought universal education necessary to the function of a free society, and that if we intended to remain both free and civilized, we had best educate the public.
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But he never enshrined it into the Constitution now did he? It's not listed in the Bill of Rights either. Therefore Education is not a Right.. unlike my Right to own a gun.

We as a country and society offer free public education up to high school... the quality however is spotty at best and very dependent on location location location.

Therefore it is neither equitable nor fair to the public... Getting expelled for improper use of school equipment might not seem fair. But hey you cant say the brat isn't learning a valuable life lesson.
 
kontact said:
@BettiePage

"Education is a privilege not a right."

Taxes pay for the schools so it is a right, dumb fuck.
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taxes pay for a lot of things... doesnt make it a right. only rights we have are listed in the Constitution.
 
This school is absolutely right, if students stop swearing at particular times of day on particular communications platforms, all the world's problems will disappear overnight.
bravo.
 
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