Teen charged after vomiting on teacher
Updated 28 July 2005: Vomiting student sentenced. Details at bottom of post.
Officials at Olathe Northwest High School (Olathe Unified School District) have brought criminal battery charges against a 17 year-old student. His crime? Vomiting on a teacher.
A high school student who vomited on his Spanish teacher has been charged with battery against a school official. The misdemeanor charge was filed Monday against the Olathe Northwest High School student.
The 17-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile and his name was not released.
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Kansas 9-year-old tries to swap gun for Xbox
This one takes the cake. A nine year-old student at Rea Woodman Elementary School in the Witchita Public School System has been suspended indefinitely pending a hearing. The reason he was suspended? Because he was hypothetically capable of breaking a zero tolerance rule.
One boy offered a .38-caliber handgun for an Xbox, a popular electronic game system, officials say. The gun would turn out to be loaded.
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Instead of going through with the trade Tuesday, the boy with the Xbox told his mother about the offer. The mother quickly notified a teacher, and soon police were alerted, school district spokeswoman Susan Arensman said.
Police found the loaded gun in the boy’s backpack at his home Tuesday night.
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Snowball suspensions a hot item for BHS
Snowball shenanigans have led to suspensions for students at Baldwin High School in District 348.
Despite being warned by BHS administrators not to throw snowballs, the students did anyway. Each student was disciplined with a school suspension, up to three days.
“We told the students anyone caught throwing snowballs would be suspended from school,” BHS Principal Allen Poplin said.
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Student Suspended Over Evolution Slur
14 year-old Cody DuFresne, accused of being a member of the outlaw gang “The Biology Group”, has been suspended from school for 14 days. In an obscene display of Darwinism he used the classic evolutionary progression drawing (ape evolving to man) to imply that a fellow student was an accursed victim of evolution.
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School officials say that they moved to suspend 14 year-old Cody DuFresne after confiscating what they describe as an “evolutionary slur” from his locker. The student had drawn a crude version of the alleged path of primate evolution, depicting a fellow student, 14 year-old Melanie Carthage, as a direct descendent of apes.
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Liberty Junior High School principal Marty Hamlin says that officials felt that they had no choice but to make an example of DuFresne. “Saying someone is descended from monkeys is about the worst thing you can say about that person. It’s as bad as saying that someone’s mother is a prostitute, or telling someone that they’re adopted when they’re not.”
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School board expels student
Last week the Topeka Public Schools Board of Education voted 4-3 to reinstate a student who had been caught with a pocketknife. After reviewing the applicable laws they realized they were required to expel him and reversed their decision this week. Some of them are not happy about having their hands tied.
“I personally was feeling frustrated due to the fact our job here is to make sure that we are providing a quality education for all students, and if that student is not in school we cannot do that,” said board member Cheri Barrington, who opposed the expulsion last week. “It’s clear he made a mistake. The program that would have allowed him a second chance is not available, and that frustrates me.”
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School board member Carolyn Campbell said board members need discretion to do what is best for students depending on the circumstances.
“There are times when children make poor choices, and it is my hope that this young man will realize he had received a second chance, learn from his mistakes and his future will be positive,” she said at the meeting.
Campbell said she plans to study federal and state laws and contact lawmakers about her concerns. “My mission is to save, not to throw away, our children,” she said.
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Graduating 15-year-old told she cannot attend high school prom
Zahra Nasr-Azadani started the year as a sophomore but aquired enough credits to jump a year and is an effective junior now. She’s actually in a position to graduate completely and has petitioned to do so. This being her last year in high school she wanted to go to the prom. No dice.
The Emporia School Board rejected a request from 15-year-old Zahra Nasr-Azadani, who appealed a school policy that allows only juniors and seniors to participate in the prom.
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The board consulted with the school’s student council, and the junior class decided not to make an exception, saying the prom is only open to students who enter the school year as juniors or seniors.
An exception to the policy had been given previously to a student in the same position but not this time. Zahra and her 4.0 average will be sitting at home on prom night.
Student disciplined for racial comment
Good sense has taken time off
Pop quiz time. See if you can find the point of stupidity in the following chain of events. That is, at what action did this scenario take a wild right turn towards the land of the ridiculous.
- A group of Blue Valley West High School journalism students meet to discuss their newspaper.
- A female minority student describes an upcoming story about minority students at the school.
- A male student makes the quip “They should just line them up and shoot them all”. The joke quite appropriately falls flat.
- Realizing what a bonehead he was the boy calls the girl that evening to apologize.
- The girl accepts the apology. She was upset but at no point did she feel threatened.
- The next day Principal John Laurie learns about the incident.
- After talking with some of the students (including the minority girl who told him that she did not feel threatened by the remark) Laurie calls the cops.
- The department is investigating and will forward its findings to the district attorney’s office for possible criminal prosecution.
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Students want district to rethink zero tolerance
Some students in Wichita, with the help of the Wichita NAACP are planning to press for a revision of the district’s zero tolerance policy on battery.
Members of Hope Street Development say the policy is outdated, unfair and harmful to students. Instead, they want administrators to consider each case on its own merits.
Wichita schools have zero-tolerance policies against bringing drugs, alcohol or weapons to school and battering a school employee. Violations bring an automatic one-year expulsion.
Battery is defined as the “unlawful intentional touching or application of force… when done in a rude, insolent or angry manner.”
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