Amateur narc investigated for botched sting operation
School Board investigates administrator
Shirley Moger, the superintendent of Climax-Shelly School, is in trouble. She recruited a 16 year-old student to help her nab some students who were dealing drugs. The sting went sour and the student was forced to imbibe 8 pills.
The drug in question, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, was Dramamine, an over-the-counter motion-sickness drug that can cause hallucinations in higher doses and, in some cases, lead to coma or death.
Moger’s amateur sting operation did result in the confiscation of two bottles of Dramamine and a package of cigarettes. But, during the sting, her young assistant said she was forced to put eight pills in her mouth, four times as much as an adult is supposed to take at any one time. The girl said she managed to fake swallow and later spit the pills out.
Moger isn’t in legal trouble for willfully endangering a minor as assistant county attorney Scott Buhler told the sheriff’s department not to bother charging her.
School Board member Todd Evenson confirmed Moger is being investigated and that she continues to report to work. He said, “We’re not supposed to say anything more.”
This tight-lipped attitude has exasperated Michelle Chapman of Climax, the parent of the girl Moger recruited. She said she won’t wait anymore and would hire an attorney to take the board or, more likely, the superintendent to court.
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“(Moger) has been with our kids since preschool,” Michelle Chapman said. “I never would have thought she would do that.”“I was very angry,” she said. “I’m still very angry. She endangered my child’s life.”
The worst part for Michelle Chapman is the superintendent has not been suspended from her duties. “What bothers me the most is that this is a zero tolerance school, and it should go both ways,” she said.
A common misconception that parents have is that a school system that uses zero tolerance policies will take the same hard-line stance with their employees. School boards know that overly simplistic one size fits all systems do not work in the real world. Employees demand things like due process, fair representation and just and equitable resolution, the very things that are denied students under zero tolerance rules.
If any student had given this girl $5 to buy drugs for her, no matter what the reason for the purchase was, that student would have been expelled.
Bonehead play of the year. One searches in vain for words to describe the superintendent’s monumental dimness. And a gutless decision by the prosecutor to boot. Extend the logic far enough and it’s OK to put an infant in the path of an onrushing train to catch an impaired engineer. I hope this superintendent is not permitted to have any sharp instruments like pencils or scissors, lest she injure herself, but I suppose such restrictions apply only to students.
Well, at least they didn’t suspend the girl for possession.
Homeschool or send your kids to private schools that you can trust.
Very Strong Rope
I wonder if this is the same superintendent, she banned the towns centennial slogan.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/02/13/offbeat.climax.controversy/index.html
maybe the name is mispelled?
Shirley Moberg, superintendent of Climax-Shelly schools, said T-shirts bearing the town’s slogan “Climax — More than just a feeling,” are inappropriate because of the sexual innuendo.
I wonder how much this program has motivated Shirley to blur the line between parental and social authority.
EDUCATION: $1 million make-over
Northwest Minnesota gets major grant for school safety, related issues
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/6362589.htm
“Whether we like it or not, I think our society has changed where schools have taken on more of the parenting and societal roles that normally had been within the family,” Jensen said. “A lot of that has been done out of necessity. The line between education and social services and law enforcement and home nursing - that line has really become blurred.”
Can you imagine some 22-year-old teacher deciding whether a kid needs mental health services or not? After reading this site, I think many public school officials should have their heads examined.
Just give your kid over to the state, and maybe the schools will let you see him on the weekends.
Or maybe the day will come when Hillary and her friend Marian Wright Edelman will stand on either side of the delivery table, so when your baby pops out, they can grab it for The Village.
While I appreciate it is the responsibility of a parent to remove their child from harm’s way; the long term battle is elitism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01diamond.html?pagewanted=3&incamp=article_popular_1
History also teaches us two deeper lessons about what separates successful societies from those heading toward failure. A society contains a built-in blueprint for failure if the elite insulates itself from the consequences of its actions. That’s why Maya kings, Norse Greenlanders and Easter Island chiefs made choices that eventually undermined their societies. They themselves did not begin to feel deprived until they had irreversibly destroyed their landscape.
Could this happen in the United States? It’s a thought that often occurs to me here in Los Angeles, when I drive by gated communities, guarded by private security patrols, and filled with people who drink bottled water, depend on private pensions, and send their children to private schools. By doing these things, they lose the motivation to support the police force, the municipal water supply, Social Security and public schools. If conditions deteriorate too much for poorer people, gates will not keep the rioters out. Rioters eventually burned the palaces of Maya kings and tore down the statues of Easter Island chiefs; they have also already threatened wealthy districts in Los Angeles twice in recent decades.
In contrast, the elite in 17th-century Japan, as in modern Scandinavia and the Netherlands, could not ignore or insulate themselves from broad societal problems. For instance, the Dutch upper class for hundreds of years has been unable to insulate itself from the Netherlands’ water management problems for a simple reason: the rich live in the same drained lands below sea level as the poor. If the dikes and pumps keeping out the sea fail, the well-off Dutch know that they will drown along with everybody else, which is precisely what happened during the floods of 1953.
I agree with the notion that ZT should go both ways. The superintendant is darwin award material.