School Rules 2
(from exoNews - 19 February 2001)
Conform or go to jail!!
BOSTON (AP) MAY 18, 2000 — Boston public school officials have overturned the suspension of a student who was disciplined for writing a horror story in which a student attacked his high school English teacher with a chain saw.The three-day suspension of Charles Carithers, a junior at Boston's prestigious Latin Academy, was overturned Friday.
School hearing officer Joseph J. Smith found that Carithers' teacher correctly reported the story as a possible threat of bodily harm. However, he said officials should have considered other factors, including the boy's record and school performance, in deciding punishment.
Students were assigned to write a descriptive horror story about a mysterious person. They were told no subject was off limits.
Carithers wrote about a fictional high school student who wanted to kill his English teacher, and apparently did so. But in a surprise ending, it was the character's aunt who died.
Last year, a 13-year-old boy in Ponder, Texas, spent five days in jail for writing a Halloween essay that involved the shooting of two students and a teacher. The case eventually was dropped.
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Comments
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hairyhead: That is seriously dumb. The stupid teacher said that there was no theme limitations!(10/07/2011)
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tobi: it was nothing but a blob of nonsense(05/01/2009)
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Mangy617: Some of the rules are riduculas!!
my brother is being sued for shoving a kid into a locker
when he got hit in the face on the bus and that kid only got 2 weeks off the bus!!!
WHEN HE SHouLD HAVE BEEN SUSPENEDED
(17/11/2008)
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raya : its bad and its very stupied ideas(13/10/2008)
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ali.t. : u should bring dem 2 court(18/09/2006)
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Kelz: They were TOLD no subject off limits!What did they expect!(20/06/2006)
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meeeee!!!: wtf thats not right!(06/03/2006)
- monkey: poop(15/06/2005)
- kittyboomboom: have hard kick bad boy butt (28/01/2005)
