School hid rapes of four 1st-gradersAnd this has what do do with gun rights?
Student, 12, was allowed to stay in school after first assault
Indirectly, this:
The case has also illustrated how difficult it can be under the law for parents to hold a school system responsible for the safety of their children...I'd say this shocks my conscience:
In federal court last month, the district’s lawyer, John Freund III, argued that under the Constitution school officials cannot be held responsible simply for failing to protect youngsters from assaults by other students.
He cited federal court rulings that say school systems are generally immune from paying damages unless it can be shown that they actually took “affirmative” steps that put youngsters in danger, and that the action taken “shocks the conscience.”
You're compelled by law to give up the means to defend yourself and your children, and the same law is fixed so that no one is liable if people die as a result.
But then again, maybe it's just me:
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.
You're damned if you do and (maybe) dead if you don't. It looks like they've got their arses covered either way. This government stuff, what a racket.
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So you are suggesting that arming first graders is the answer here? Except of course the 12 year old would presumably be armed as well, so I'm not sure I get where you are going with this.
ReplyDeleteSince the police have no responsibilty to protect an individual, it should come as no surprise the publik skuulz have no responsibility either.
ReplyDeleteAt least that kid didn't do something really bad, like call someone names, and create a "hostile atmosphere."
Anonymous, no, that's not what I'm suggesting at all.
ReplyDeleteIf schools don't protect you or your children, what is their liability?
None.
Yet they enforce rules to keep you from protecting yourself and your children while in the zone.
That's where I'm going with this.
what are the odds that this kid would have been booted out the second he made his fingers into a "gun" and said bang...but this, no, this falls into the "if it feels good" experimentation category and couldn't possibly be a crime.
ReplyDeletewhen did public schools come into being? why do we still have them?
Re: "Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteSo you are suggesting that arming first graders is the answer here? Except of course the 12 year old would presumably be armed as well, so I'm not sure I get where you are going with this."
When did the reader’s inability to ken simple concepts expressed in plain English become the writer’s problem?