TJUSD Board Meeting - February 13, 2014

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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - February 13, 2014

Postby cactuspete » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:32 am

Too Much? German schools plan to teach 'sexual diversity', parents outraged
Sex education is one thing, but lifestyle education is a little more controversial. But as long as parents can opt out of the classes, it's not that big of a deal. On the flip side, it's unlikely that the kids are likely to be adversely impacted by lifestyle education. It's the parents who get all bent out of shape. Just the same the parents should be able to decide if their children participate in this sort of thing... unless of course their children engage in bullying or taunting of children who come from alternate lifestyle families. In that case we're not simply dealing with a disciplinary issue, but more of a dysfunctional family issue which requires some kind of remediation of both the parents and the children.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - February 13, 2014

Postby CoolChick » Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:02 am

Students Forced To Wear Trackable IDs At All Times
I don't like the idea of tracking kids. Whether it's at a college or a public school I think it's a bad idea. It's like they're trying to train kids to accept a surveillance based society. People should stand up for their freedoms and allowing an institution to do this kind of thing is just a step towards a Big Brother type of society and that's extremely dangerous.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - February 13, 2014

Postby wildrose » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:43 am

Trackable IDs: I don't like this idea for schools. Even through it may make the job of administrators easier and it may have a few other advantages, the disadvantages are just too great. Philosophically it's impossible to justify anything like this except for possibly in a prison situation. Many have said that our schools already are too much like prisons as it is, the last thing we need is to take another step in that direction!
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - February 13, 2014

Postby mrgreen » Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:51 pm

Student Points Finger Like Gun, Gets Suspended Under Zero Tolerance Rules
Stories like this are proof that a significant portion of the population lacks intelligence. It's almost like they are an entirely different and distinctly inferior species. They lack a sense of humor. They lack the ability to put things into their proper context. They over-react to insignificant things and they under-react to significant things. They are completely out of touch with reality. Complete failure to comprehend anything of importance. And many of them wind up as politicians, school administrators, or in other positions of influence and power. This is why social problems are never solved. It's stupidity that never seems to go away. Total fail! And then there's all the employees who won't stand up to them, who just go along with the dysfunctional system. It makes me sick!
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Take the story reader kenichi tanaka writes us about, in which a youngster making the universal gun-symbol with one hand has ended up suspended from school. Keep in mind that Nathan Entingh is ten years old, was playing around with one of his friends, and that roughly every kid on the planet everywhere has done this exact same damned thing.

LINK: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140306/06423826453/student-points-finger-like-gun-gets-suspended-under-zero-tolerance-rules.shtml
And then there's this:
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Re: Zero Tolerance

Postby desertrat » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:34 am

mrgreen: Nice rant! I could not agree more! ZERO TOLERANCE equals ZERO INTELLIGENCE!!!
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