Students booked with cyber stalking
Three Loranger High School students were arrested for cyber stalking after a week-long investigation. 18 year-old Joseph Sanchez and a 14 year-old boy created a website with “bloodthirsty lyrics” and a list of “preppies”. A 15 year-old girl allegedly assumed a male identity on the internet and harassed a male student.
The three Loranger High students were issued temporary suspensions before classes resumed Monday, and a due-process hearing is scheduled Friday to determine whether they should be expelled for the remainder of the school year, said Cindy Benitez, spokeswoman for the Tangipahoa Parish School System.
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School Fight Captured On Camera
Donald Yeates was video taped defending himself from an attacker at Sam Houston High School. He now faces arrest and punishment through the school system’s Zero Tolerance policy.
The shiner around Donald Yeates’ eye was just the beginning of a painful experience that started with a school fight at Sam Houston High School last Thursday. Donald says, “He hit me first and it was planned out. It was video camered, and I was just defending myself.”
The fight was recorded, most likely by another student. Even though another student is seen hitting Donald first, Donald, too, is facing an arrest through the school system’s zero tolerance fighting policy. The reason–because school administrators believe he could have walked away. Assistant Principal Anne Guidry says, “They have to feel like they can’t get away, they can’t find a staff member, and they feel like they have to defend themselves. They have to be very careful that they themselves do not become the aggressor.” Donald says, “That guy would have came back at me if I would have started walking to the office and got me from behind. No telling what else could have happened to me.”
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Jello treat gets Jefferson Parish 4th-grader suspended
Gelatin gets 8-year-old suspended
Eight year-old Kelli Billingsley wanted to raise some money to buy Christmas presents. With mom’s help she made Jell-O cups and brought them to school to sell to her friends.
The youngster was suspended Nov. 29 from Geraldine Boudreaux Elementary School after school officials said the snacks given to her by her mother in small, clear plastic containers resembled an alcoholic mixture commonly known as “Jell-O shots,” said Jefferson Parish public schools spokesman Jeff Nowakowski.
The girl was suspended for nine days for two violations of the system’s drug policy: having a “look-alike” drug on school grounds and intending to distribute it, Nowakowski said.
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For driver’s license, Louisiana boys must register for the draft
Larry Chevalier got a rough surprise when he took his son Nathan to get a driver’s permit. Unless Nathan, 16, registered for the draft he would not be allowed to get a driver’s license.
Even a 15-year-old boy who wants a learner’s permit in Louisiana must provide information to be forwarded, when he turns 18, to the Selective Service System, which would run a military draft if one is set up again.
The same goes for any 16- 17- or 18-year-old who wants his - the law applies only to males - first driver’s license or state ID card.
”They can’t even be a conscientious objector to signing up,” said Chevalier, of Glenmora.
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‘Zero Tolerance’ School Suspends Headache Pills Pupil
Amanda Stiles, a sophomore from Parkway High School, has been expelled for a year for possessing over the counter headache medicine.
Head teacher Ken Kruithof said the decision was in line with Parkway High School�s tough anti-drugs rules, even though the tablets are legal.
Amanda and her mother Kelly Herpin appealed to a school board committee but failed.
Ken is totally and completely clueless if he can’t see how ridiculous and counterproductive it is to expel a student for a year because she had aspirin in her purse.
What’s worse than a zero tolerance policy? One where they don’t let you know what actually violates it.
School policy murky on �gay� talk
Alexandria � Rapides Parish School Board policy is unclear on whether students may be punished for using the word gay or discussing homosexuality at school, like the 7-year-old Lafayette Parish pupil who gained recent national media attention, according to school district officials.
Ruby Smith, director of Rapides Parish student welfare and attendance, could not comment whether the word gay is considered a punishable obscenity in this school system.
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