...but we've never suggested that it is the right choice for others. When considering the deicison to home school, private school or public school your children, there are many variables to consider and each situation is unique and there is no "one-size-fits all" correct answer for everyone. However...
THIS---> http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060403/NEWS01/604030389/1002/OPINION
is ridiculous!
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FP, perhaps you are a bit biased on this story?
For those of you who haven't know the FP as long as I, FP once committed a similar heinous transgression in middle school. The crime? Possession of bang snaps, those paper-encrusted grains of black powder, powerful enough to explode...the paper that surrounds them. I believe FP was suspended by the assistant principle on the gounds that a baby might crawl though the classroom, pick up the bangsnap, and shove it in his eye, potentially severing an eyelash.
Funny I missed this story in the Indy Star this week, but perhaps it was do to the fact that AN ENTIRE SECTION of the paper was devoted to daylight savings time, now that we have finally joined the civilized world of our neighboring Ohio. Oh, if you only hear the complaints about the time change...mostly because people literally do not know how to set their clocks. I wish I could say I'm surprised about this poor kid getting suspended, but I'm not. Folks ain't none too bright around these here parts.
I wish that punk would just fall on his knife and take his lumps.
He just really needs to learn to keep his concealed weapons concealed and nobody will be the wiser. ;)
Looks like they got it right after all:
Indianapolis, April 5, 2006 -- Elliott Voge is back in Indiana and Monday he heads back to school. There's a smile on the 8th grader's face because he won't face possible expulsion for mistakenly taking a swiss army knife to Stonybrook Middle School.
Elliott immediately turned the knife into the principal's office when he realized the knife was in his coat pocket, but the school principal suspended the 14-year old for ten days.
That action led to national media attention and now the school board wants to right the wrong. Elliott says he's ready to return to school, "I am glad they admitted it and am glad they fixed their mistake. I think it is almost all water under the bridge."
Warren Township School Board Vice President Frank Hancock says Elliott should be viewed as a role model for taking responsibility and turning in the knife, "he did nothing wrong."
In fact, Hancock says it's clear Elliott is a good student who tried to do the right thing and his suspension should not have happened, "speaking as a member of the school board I can tell you the family will hear officially from the school system and anything on his record that may be deemed improper as a result of this will be cleared."
Despite that assurance, Elliott's family says no one from the school district's called to apologize or offered to help cover the 2500 dollars in legal fees.
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