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Friday 28 February 2003 : More on ‘Public Drunkenness’
Despite budget cuts, Fairfax County still has enough money to prosecute people picked up in an extremely questionable December operation the goal of which was to arrest people who were allegedly drunk in bars.
Tuesday 14 January 2003 : These Kids Today
The Henny Pennys of the world would have us believe that children are incredibly dangerous.
Wednesday 15 May 2002 : Fire a Spitwad, Go to Jail
SF Chronicle story: Jeffrey Figueroa, 13, admits he shot a spitwad at his Walnut Creek school last fall and that it hit another student in the right eye, requiring surgery. But the seventh-grader and his parents said today that he never should have been convicted of two felonies -- let alone charged -- for what they call a schoolyard accident....
Wednesday 27 March 2002 : High-School Student Suspended: Smelled Like Otto’s Jacket
The Canadians usually have a better sense of perspective than we do, but this story from Ottawa makes it looks like they're working on closing the Idiocy Gap: An Ottawa police dog's interest in a 15-year-old boy's ski jacket during an impromptu drug search at an Orléans high school yesterday moved school officials to immediately suspend the student -- even...
Thursday 21 March 2002 : Student With Bread Knife Re-admitted
The high school student thrown out of school in Texas recently for the heinous crime of having a bread knife in the back of his pickup truck while on school grounds (see below), has been re-admitted to school. Rather than just admitting that they overreacted, though, the school has just reduced his punishment to "expulsion" for five days -- still...
Thursday 21 March 2002 : Honor Student Expelled For Bread Knife
The knife in question was in the bed of his pickup truck. School officials have said their hands are tied by the policy, despite the student’s claim that the knife was left by accident after he and his father boxed up his grandmother’s linens, books and kitchenware to drop off at a Goodwill store. I don’t even have any comments...
Thursday 07 March 2002 : Toy Gun Update
Since I reported the original event, it’s only fair that there’s a follow-up. Prosecutors in Washtenaw County, Michigan, will drop felonious assault charges against an 8-year-old who allegedly pointed a plastic cap gun at three other 7-year-old kids on December 6 of last year. He apparently didn’t “fire” the gun, and he reportedly didn’t even threaten to; he just said,...
Tuesday 05 March 2002 : Maybe They Can Put Him In A Toy Jail
When I was seven years old, I had toy guns. Most of my friends did, too. We’d put these strips of caps in them and shoot ‘em at one another. Bang! Bang! Bang! Sometimes we wore cowboy hats while doing this. Sometimes we ran out of caps and just threw the guns at one another. Those cheap castings had sharp...
Friday 22 February 2002 : UNLV Student-Prof Sex Regulations
I have seen this on a few other weblogs, but felt it so absurd that I decided to bring it to the attention of Tinotopia’s vast audience. At UNLV, relationships between professors and students are not allowed, because: While consensual relationships may not always be unethical, they almost always cause problems. Some of these problems are as follows: they often...
Tuesday 22 January 2002 : Zero Tolerance for Kids with Cancer
here’s a column about a seventh-grader with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who was excluded from school in Montgomery County, Maryland because the school system was afraid that his chemo pack might jeopardize “the health and welfare of Jonathan and his fellow students”. Never mind that the NIH said that there was no such danger, of course.
Monday 21 January 2002 : Get Robbed, Get Suspended From School
If these two kids are so dangerous that they need to be suspended for a year, why is their school district looking into “open enrollment into a different district”? Oh, but wait. They’re not dangerous. The superintendent of their school district says that there was never any “physical harm or threat” to the school or other students. And he goes...
Monday 21 January 2002 : 8-year-old suspended from school for nail file
According to this column in the Washington Post, Dustin Rogers, 8, was suspended from school last month — and the machinery to expel him from school was set into motion — because he brought to school nail clippers on a keychain. I’m assuming these were the folding type, because the school was particularly concerned about the “dangerous” 2-inch “blade” (i.e....
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