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2/26/2014 10:11:55 PM
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Student Gets Suspended for An Honest Mistake...
[quote]LIVINGSTON, TX (KTRK) -- A Livingston mother says her son made an honest mistake while packing his school lunch bag, but that mistake is costing him dearly.
Christi Seale says her 17-year-old son Chaz accidentally confused a beer can for a soda can and packed it in his lunch.
"He was in a hurry, running late. We were talking about school and he put it all together and took off for school," she said.
When he realized his mistake at school, Chaz gave the unopened beer to his teacher. But that teacher then reported it to the principal at Livingston High School, who suspended the boy for three days and then sent him to an alternative school for two months.
Chaz said, "I gave it to the teacher, thinking I wouldn't get in trouble, and I got in trouble."
Seale says the punishment is excessive. She says she always taught her son to be honest and forthright, and now he has to pay a price for that honesty.
Livingston Independent School District wouldn't talk to Eyewitness News on camera but in a statement said, "The principal of Livingston High School followed appropriate LISD administrative procedures and protocol. LISD encourages any parent who is in disagreement with an administrative decision to seek relief through the appellate process as provided through Livingston ISD policies. Livingston ISD policies may be accessed through the Livingston ISD Homepage."
Seale is currently appealing the decision and is hoping to get her son's punishment reduced.
A Facebook page in support of the teenager was started by friends of the family. After 24 hours of going online, the page has close to 500 likes.[/quote]
Thanks to KTAR, ABC 13.
Anyone else think this is just dumb? I mean, yes, he made a mistake. We all make mistakes. But, he had ZERO intention of drinking it. And yet he still got suspended.
Discuss Floodians.
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The education system in this country needs some serious reforming anyways. Just add this to the list. A teacher at my school would keep it quiet. Hell, some of them might just drink it after school.
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1 ReplyEdited by WickedNavajo: 2/27/2014 3:03:43 AMThat disappoints me. I think it also sets a bad example for children [i]against[/i] being honest and such.
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[quote]It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever. -John Adams[/quote]
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3 RepliesEdited by DemonicChronic: 2/26/2014 10:20:51 PMThis type of policy is a major contributor to why so many kids are dishonest. If you want them to come clean about something then you really shouldn't make it your agenda to punish them anyways for it when it hasn't even hurt anyone.
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2 RepliesThis absolutely infuriates me. The Goshdarn Batman does not stand for idiocy such as this, it's absolutely, to put in bluntly; retarded. I hate how honest kids like this get screwed over by the education system, which is in absolute shambles. Good kids like this get punished, but the hooligans who [i]actually[/i] drink alcohol, or use narcotics, when and [i]if[/i] they're caught, get punishments that are equal in severity. Not to mention the U.S. Education system's absolute butchery of the subject of history, which is supposedly "unimportant" in comparison to other subjects. In my freshman year in high school, a student asked me: "wasn't Hitler born in 1930?". [i]Seriously.[/i] -blam!- the American Education System.
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That is completely awful and yet another reason to get children out of this abominable education system. I can't believe so many people let themselves be robbed from to pay for this joke.
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1 ReplyUgh, that teacher and the principle try to look tough. Literally. If I was that teacher, I would've taken the beer and thank the student, but wouldn't report it to the principle. that's just stupid.
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Ugh, this is stupid. I don't support people drinking, but he freaking gave it to the teacher! The teacher should be fired!
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I just love how they punish people that tell an authority figure about what they accidentally did. [i]"Well you went camping yesterday and you left your knife in your backpack so you turned it in? Well that sure is nice of you to allow me to punish you and probably ruin your life for it. You should know better than to be responsible about it."[/i] It sure is nice of schools to make it were you shouldn't tell people about a mistake you made. They sure are teaching our kids good.
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1 ReplyEdited by Mr Mulberry: 2/27/2014 2:33:58 AMWhy could they do this? [quote]American Education System [/quote] Oh. May I remind you these are the same people who will graduate students who can hardly read.
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2 RepliesThe idiocy of people working in the education system never ceases to amaze.
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1 ReplyI hate the education system's "zero tolerance" stance on just about everything. The teachers complain about lazy students, but a zero tolerance policy is laziness in essence (nice example). Owning up to your unintentional mistakes will usually teach yourself the lesson, you don't need an overly excessive punishment to do that for you. [spoiler]Is it just me, or does anyone else feel that if the kid got caught drinking it (as opposed to turning it in), he would've gotten less of a punishment/the same punishment?[/spoiler]
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Edited by Broseph Stalin: 2/27/2014 4:34:57 AMThis is why zero tolerance policies don't work. All infractions result in punishment, which is usually excessive, and no exceptions whatsoever. Poor kid made a mistake packing his lunch, then gave the unopened beer can to his teacher. Most kids would have just hid the can in their backpack, and then they'd drink it after school. This kid got suspended and sent to an alternative school for two months for doing the responsible thing. Absolute bullshit.
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A little excessive. He confused a can of beer for a can of soda, so what? It was just a mistake, and he didn't open the can. The teacher should've commended him for his honesty but instead he tells on him. They should let him back into school right away.
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2 Replies>Gives can to teacher because he did nothing wrong and made a mistake >Gets suspended anyway This is why we can't have nice things America.
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Zero tolerance is bullshit
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Ha, my mother would have ripped the district apart if something this stupid were to happen to me (not that she hasn't come close enough already >_>).
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-_- A can of beer. A can of -blam!-ing beer! Are you kidding me? Personally if it were me, I wouldn't give the can to anyone and just never drink it. Thing is, I'm 21 now and I don't go to high school anymore.
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And this is why we can't trust the system.
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How is this news? I've plenty of after school detentions for forgetting a stupid belt (part of the dress code in middle school) and I never got on the news.
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And schools wonder why kids don't trust authority figures.
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That's retarded.
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He doesn't sound like the kind of kid who ever gets in trouble. So I don't see how they'd have any reason not to believe him.
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1 ReplyThat's pretty screwed up. He was coming clean and doing the right thing. I could understand if he tried to drink it, or if he tried to give it away. But he was going out of his way to do the right thing. This is why automatic punishments are a bad thing.
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I'm sure I've accidentally brought a pocket knife to school once or twice. I wasn't stupid enough to tell anyone about it, though.
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Edited by Elrond Hubbard: 2/27/2014 4:18:08 AMZero-tolerance policies, putting the rules on autopilot since the 1980s. Want to reform the education system? That's the best place to start.
