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The hell is this?

Source:http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-the_war_on_kids.html

I was searching about the War on Kids and came upon this; old news is old, but the hell?

Quote:An unidentified 11th-grade student in Pelham Manor, N.Y., was called into the office for a chat with the assistant principal -- and the police. The boy was reportedly researching how to conceal a gun. After interviewing the student, the police and the principal determined that there was absolutely no threat, and in fact the report was wrong: the teen was actually researching the state's laws on guns. A school spokeswoman said the boy was not disciplined, and remains in school. So who turned him in? The Pelham Public Library. "It is not our procedure to notify somebody" about patrons' book choices, said library Director Patricia Perito, but she "had to" look into the matter by informing the school. (White Plains Journal News) ...In other news, Perito has set up a security camera on the library's copy of the Constitution, so she can catch anyone who wants to research their rights as a citizen.

Like, what? So, now we have the Library snooping on us too? We can't look into something, with out it having the chance of ending up, on the desk of our principal???

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...Wow. Rage. Words cannot express.
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The funny part, the kid who was reported is anti guns.
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OH FUCKING LORD IN HEAVEN! YOU CANT LET CITIZENS LEARN ABOUT THEIR *GASP* RIGHTS!
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nostaw Wrote:OH FUCKING LORD IN HEAVEN! YOU CANT LET CITIZENS LEARN ABOUT THEIR *GASP* RIGHTS!
OH NOEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!
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Quote:Well, that's exactly what the film is about: kids are assumed to be guilty until proven innocent, and the education of children "has become secondary to the need to control children." We've seen in my zero tolerance stories so many cases of kids presumed to be guilty until proven innocent -- and even then punished, because the wheels were set into motion.

Adults are so hypocritical when it comes to children.
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Some kind of adult paranoia that every student is going to bring in a gun and shoot everyone in the world.
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I'm not surprised since they give us a fair amount of reasons to do that in the first place. I'd actually want to go to school with an assault rifle and go on a killing spree, but I wouldn't want to be alone. Not meaning in the school either - if it was a worldwide assault, even as much as a hundred groups per country - would do miracles. People would stop trusting schools completely.
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imho the librarian is completely and utterly paranoid out of her mind.
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As most adults.
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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Some kind of adult paranoia that every student is going to bring in a gun and shoot everyone in the world.
How did they know that was my plan!? Seriously it is, ask Thade, I swore on my damn grave i would come(LoL cum) Laugh into school and shooteveryone i hated!!!!!!!!!
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The immaturity... it's invading!

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Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

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01-21-2010 01:40 AM
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Loxor Wrote:The immaturity... it's invading!

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Gwooooahh.


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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Some kind of adult paranoia that every student is going to bring in a gun and shoot everyone in the world.
Seriously. Teacher I know talks about how everything was different when she was a kid, this didn't happen. It's paranoia and people thinking it's a good idea because people talk about it <i>all</i> the thime.
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But this...this mindless, condescending disrespect toward people who have no legal voice with which to defend themselves, this reduction of parents' betrayal into a cheap crack about kids being computer-savvy...it's like watching a surgeon joke about life insurance while his patient bleeds to death on the operating table. The media's job is to protect society from oppression and they've drawn a clear line between the people worth protecting and the people that don't matter. How can they people sleep at night?

You're a journalist. DO. YOUR. FUCKING. JOB.

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(12-03-2011 07:40 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Solution to all these problems: don't fuck people you can't negotiate with in a civilized manner.
(02-09-2012 02:14 PM)Absentinsomniac Wrote:  The only solution is democratic self-paced education where students can excel in what they are good at and work on what their not if necessary, AT THEIR OWN DAMN PACE IN THEIR OWN DAMN WAY.



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Quote:Perito has set up a security camera on the library's copy of the Constitution, so she can catch anyone who wants to research their rights as a citizen.

What??

WHAT?!

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It's great stuff, clearly we should have cameras following our children constantly, so we can catch them doing nothing wrong.
Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

I gave her wings but she don't wanna fly no more.

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
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Loxor Wrote:It's great stuff, clearly we should have cameras following our children constantly, so we can catch them doing nothing wrong.
And GPS tracking systems so our own 15 year old children don't run away to freedom.
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