Rock Hill student charged after bringing nails to school
A student in the Rock Hill School District made the mistake of leaving some nails in his pocket after working on a Boy Scout project. School officials had him arrested for possession of these deadly weapons.
Dianne McCray, [6th grade] assistant principal at Rawlinson Road Middle School, asked the child Wednesday what was jingling in his pocket and the student gave her the 3.5″ long nails.
A school resource officer [Ashley Doster] arrested him. His father picked him up and he was not taken to the police station.
An effective combination of observative administrator and a cop on staff. Parents and students at this suburban middle school can breath easy knowing how quickly and effectively they eliminated the deadly hazard posed by this eleven year-old carpenter.
(Tip credit to Fred AE and Bumper)
Home School Group Says Police Used Excessive Force
Updated 25 February, 2005: Charges dropped, police officer fired (details at bottom of post)
Simpsonville Park has been a regular meeting place for a group of home-schoolers. For the past five years they’ve met there every Wednesday to let the kids play. Lately the park was also being used by a nearby public school. Their playground was blocked by portable temporary classrooms so teachers would walk the students across the street to Simpsonville Park for recess.
This situation led to disaster for the home-schoolers last Friday when a teacher noticed one of the boys was wearing a pocketknife in a belt holster. Instead of talking with the boy or a parent she did what she’d been trained to do - she called the cops.
“I heard a man yelling take your hands out of your pocket and I turned around and he was yelling at one of the boys in the group,� says another mother Priscilla Adams.
Priscilla�s 14-year-old son, Glenn says, “He started yelling and screaming at this boy for having a knife, then pushed him down.”
Priscilla says he then “went for another boy a 16-year-old, yelled at him something about having a knife, he pushed him to the ground.”
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That�s when Priscilla says one of the other mothers tried to stop him, by getting between the officer and the student.
“She was trying to protect a student, we didn’t know what was happening, he could’ve been a murderer, a rapist or anything, we just, he was attacking one of our kids and we were trying to stop him,” says Jan.
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Schools learn to laud the good
Some Carolina schools are looking at themselves and their neighbors and are beginning to realize that zero tolerance and concentration on punitive measures doesn’t work very well.
Kids suffer academically when suspended from school, [Russell Skiba, an Indiana University education professor] said. Even factoring in issues such as poverty and race, Indiana schools with higher suspension rates saw 49 percent of their students pass state exams — compared with 58 percent of the kids at schools with lower suspension rates.
“You put kids out of school, those kids come back, and they haven’t learned anything,” said Skiba, who wrote a report called “Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence.” “You just get into an endless loop.”
Studies show schools write more than half their office referrals for only about 6 percent of the students. If that kind of discipline worked, some argue, the same kids wouldn’t continue to misbehave. Getting tough is more likely to create anger and resentment, said Diann Irwin, of the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, who coordinates the state’s positive behavior program.
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Pupils charged with lynching in fight with teacher
It’s both not as bad as it sounds while also being even worse. Two students from Brentwood Middle School have been charged with lynching their teacher. The confusion you are feeling right now is because progressive lawmakers in South Carolina have defined lynching as “any act of violence by two or more people against another”.
A middle school student is in juvenile detention after she and her sister were charged with hitting a teacher.
North Charleston police arrested the 13- and 14-year-old Brentwood Middle School students last week and charged them with lynching.
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The teacher was slapped in the face and the girls repeatedly hit her when the teacher attempted to break up a fight between the sisters, according to a police report.
The teacher was struck after she put one of the girls in a headlock. Hmmm. Two sisters are fighting, a teacher tries to break them up. They won’t listen. She physically restrains one. They don’t stop fighting and she is hit. Yup, sounds like a lynching to me.
Should the girls be in trouble? Of course they should. They shouldn’t have been fighting. They should have stopped when the teacher told them. They should not under any circumstances have hit her. But arresting them for lynching? That is just completely ridiculous.
(Tip credit to Precinct 333.)
Toy gun prompts criminal probe
The 7-year old student took his toy to school last week and showed it to another student in the parking lot. That other little boy told his parents about it on Tuesday night.
They promptly alerted authorities and an investigation was launched by the Sheriff’s Office and school workers.
The alleged culprit and his parents cooperated with police, Bukoffsky said.
“They helped us locate the gun,” he said.
When the hammer of the toy is cocked, a red light shoots out of the barrel.
No one was injured.
The weapon was bagged into evidence Wednesday but the boy will probably not face criminal charges.
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Ambush at Goose Creek
This raid took place in a public high school in Goose Creek, S.C. And it happened because the principal, concerned that drug use was on the rise, called the police for help.
Together, they orchestrated a schoolhouse raid so shocking that most people didn’t believe it happened until they saw the videotape.
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