The suspension would last until they returned to school without the armband. Three students were suspended until they returned to
An Atlanta Superior Court Judge Mary E. Stanley has granted a change of venue motion in case of 22 month old Cooper Harris’s death. Justin Harris, the 35 year old father of Cooper was been charged with malice murder, felony murder as well as first degree cruelty to children after leaving his toddler son in a hot car for seven hours in June 2014. The Atlanta Police Department believed that Justin Harris intentionally left his son in the heated car while he went to work. They also stated that the father and son had previously went to breakfast the following morning, moments before driving the short distance to his place of work.
However, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, students wore bracelets to protest but never exhibited disrespectful or inappropriate behavior. (Decker,
My perspective on this case is that the student was still a representative of his school at the football game and the principal had the right to take action against his acts. Taylor Murphy claimed that, while on school property, the event was outside of the school day and he was acting as a free and public individual. In the case Morse v. Frederick, he may have no been “in school” but he was on school grounds and Morse v. Frederick states “pupils who participate in approved social events and class trips are subject to the same student conduct rules that apply during the regular school program.” Even if Murphy didn’t realize it, he associated himself with the school by wearing his school varsity jacket, so it was clear to the public that
When the children showed up to the school with the black armbands on the school faculty asked them to remove it. If the students refused to remove the armband they were sent home and suspended until they agreed to take the armbands off. The students did not return to school
Bus Stabber Jim is out there, in an alley. He 's smoking a cigarette, stroking the blade of his knife, and chatting up a dame. The sickly streetlights cascade a filthy glow over both of them. The bus is approaching, and Jim 's gonna lead this poor, innocent woman on board, and then what 's going to happen? Will he stab her, and continue his streak of senseless violence?
A public school should be an environment where anyone in attendance should feel safe and comfortable. In source 1, The NFA Zero Tolerance policy states “The goal in establishing NFA’s Zero Tolerance policy is to provide a safe and orderly campus for all of our students, faculty, and staff.” Source 1 later states that students will receive a 10-day out-of-school- suspension, and possibly result in expulsion for any of the following reasons: Possession of weapon(s), possession of drugs/alcohol, extortion, hate crimes, and assault. Luke’s shirt and tattoo is clearly showing prejudice against minorities and jews, and should be seen as a hate crime. The shirt also goes against NFA’s dress code which can be seen in source 1.
In today’s society, we have former National Football League(NFL) quarterback Collin Kapernick who’s no longer in the NFL because of his protest against racial inequality. However, many people believe he is no longer in the NFL because of his talent. Kapernick led the 49ers to Super Bowl 47. Although they didn’t win, he threw for 302 yards with a touchdown and rushed for 62 yards. Therefore, he didn’t get kicked out of the league because he wasn’t good enough, but for sitting down during the national anthem.
A situation like this happened at Canton High School. Over 100 students were suspended on the first day of school for wearing neon colored shoes or neon shoe strings because they were supposedly "gang related". There was also a girl last October that was taken out of class just because she had a necklace on that resembled a rosary. The principle took it as gang related also and reprimanded her for it (Kuczynski-Brown). Could you imagine being taken out of class for a necklace?
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, or Nas, wrote in one of his songs “Still i’m sayin’ why do we reside in the ghetto with a million ways to die?” DeShawn, a young boy that lived in the projects of Chicago wanted to go to school, provide for his family, and stay away from the gangs. But, he needed the money to provide for his family, and school wasn’t really leading him anywhere. So he made a choice to join the Douglass Disciples, something he never really wanted to do. I believe that DeShawn had a choice because he chose to start drinking and smoking, to drop out of school, and to join a gang.
Since the 80’s there have been rule and still to this day there are rules and regulations you must follow. There is a degree to where certain rules rule out others and must be follow with no excuses but Horizon High School has gone too far. We are students and we are meant to be students, not slaves. School is essentially work for students.
I think that if this hate rule at least had some consideration for their students with a announcement or a post on the school website it would ease us students at Edison Public High School. But overall this rule/policy needs some kind of modification or a told veto because it make no sense why a certain part of your outfit is taken away without out a guideline set for
Brian Wilson and Laura Finley discuss how they believe instead keeping violence out of schools the laws “prevent student learning” (Wilson and Finley). Regarding the purpose of the policies, Wilson and Finley state, “zero-tolerance policies are, in effect, a means of channeling young people into the juvenile justice system.” Some of the policies have nothing to do with the safety of the school such as being a distraction, and disobeying dress code. These types of infractions allows minority students to spend less time in school and more time home; time home allows students to find trouble in gangs and crime. Instead of sending students home for a dress code infraction, administrators could simply have clothing available for students who have these infractions.
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District upheld the right to freedom of speech of students to protest the Vietnam war by wearing black armbands. The case explained the problem that “students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” (Student) As students, we are free to express ourselves through what we wear. As students, we have every right to proclaim our beliefs
One reason why the zero tolerance rule should be eliminated from our school rules is because as kids we sometimes don’t make the best decisions because we don’t know what to do or how to act. In this case it shows that the zero tolerance doesn’t help people from making bad decisions it just makes it worst for school students.
