Michael Carl has been in email correspondence with the school superintendent about the girl who left her hunting rifle locked in a case in her car trunk.
He has received assurances that "[C]ommon sense and understanding will be used in the matter as in all such matters. I could not and will not recommend expulsion in this matter."
Let's hope.
Friday, December 10, 2010
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I ain't holdin' my breath.
Never trust the "authoritahs". She should have feigned illness, then gotten the hell out of Dodge.
"...could not and will not recommend expulsion in this matter..."
How noble. And how empty. Note how there is no question that the "super" fully retains the authority, the arbitrary discretion, to make this sort of call in the first place.
If the "super" had instead said, "No declaration of law or regulation, no matter how official-sounding, empowers anyone in this institution to pass judgment on a girl who has neither threatened nor harmed anyone. Why the hell are you people bothering me with this?", then I'd have cause to be hopeful. Until that changes, it's luck of the draw.
(Not to take anything away from the girl in this case. I don't want to see her suffer either. But this is an arbitrary moment of sanity, not something that addresses the underlying problem. The broken clock just had one of its two daily minutes of "glory".)
It's getting fairly obvious that it's a major mistake to tell the state the truth or to volunteer any information.
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Maybe the school officials would prefer an average day like THIS:
After two student fights, NYC school principal closes student bathrooms. A riot ensues.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/12/10/bathroom-ban-leads-to-riot-at-nyc-high-school/
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