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You can't be serious?!?!
I hope the above post was using absurdity to point out absurdity. No body gives a hill of beans what happens in Central Ohio, unless they live here. It took a random highway sniper shooting upwards of ten cars before CBus made the national news. Do you honestly think Dan Rather would devote 5 seconds of the National CBS broadcast if a student in Columbus City Schools was stabbed? You are suffering from a severe case of an overinflated ego. Central Ohio is Central Ohio. It was a fight in PIckerington, without major wounds, the stations in columbus aren't going to cover that! Why do you want to bring the bad media to pickerington? Keep that garbage of the airwaves and focus on parents raising their kids at home. It's not the school's job to raise the kids, it's their job to educate them. It's the parents sole responsibility to raise kids and no one else's. It CANNOT and SHOULD NOT be pawned off on anyone else. Assume some adult responsibility and lose the idea of entitlement. Public schools educate children, not rear them.
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my two cents
I have read thru all of these postings-- I have to say that I agree with those who suggest getting more involved in the school. I have a child who graduated from Pickerington 4 years ago. My biggest fault-finding with the school was with the parents themselves. No one seems to teach thier kids personal responsibility anymore. When half the kids in high school have cars that are more expensive than any you see in the teachers parking lot, when parents perpetually go to the child's defense against the teachers punishments, when the vast majority of the parents only involvement is to complain about lousy teachers and schools.... you have a real problem. From my experience, the majority of parents of teens feel that thier child is old enough to make thier own decisions and be left on thier own. they are more concerned with thier careers and paying for that nice house in Pickerington than they are thier own kids. All they want to do is complain and lay all of the responsibity of raising thier kids onto the school system. My two cents? If you don't want the responsibility of kids? Do us all a favor and don't have them :) get your priorities straight and pay attention and take on your OWN personal responsibility. You are raising a generation of excuse makers-- just like thier parents. Don't like something about the schools? get involved and make it a priority as opposed to bringing home a paycheck. we need more parents like the ones here who advocate getting personally involved. I'm glad to see there are at least a few!
By empty nester
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T-S finally reports
Yesterday the Times-Sun finally reported on the fight at the North High School that happened on Feb. 23rd. Yet to date no charges have been filed. After three weeks they still can't decide whether to file charges.
Even in the article the school is white washing the incident. This young man is troubled and he needs help. Allowing him to stay in school with other kids places a danger to all kids. I think he needs to be removed and sent to a place that can deal with his anger. That broken beer bottle is a deadly weapon and folks that thinks this is a minor incident are kidding themselves. We don't have a rug that large to sweep this under.
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A little common sense please
Today in the Lancaster paper we see where a girl could be charged with possessing a deadly weapon in a school zone. Yet three weeks after an actual attack with a deadly weapon our school is still trying to figure out where they are going with their charges. Clearly if this girl can be charged with possessing the boy in Pickerington North High certainly can be charged with not only possession but assault. Yet we still can't seem to decide here. WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A 16-year-old Lancaster girl could be charged with possessing a deadly weapon in a school zone after a knife was found Monday on her at Fairfield Union High School, the sheriff's office reported. The teen said she was using the knife in her car that morning and did not mean to have it in her purse. The report was sent to the prosecutor's office.
Lancaster Eagle Gazette March 10, 2004
Have our school administrators detached themselves from the public so much they have lost all signs of a reasonable thought process and common sense? As for the girl in Lancaster I would suggest that if she is a good student and that knife was an actual tool being used in her car that morning she should not be charged. If she wasn't threatening anyone I can't see how they can in good conscience create a problem here where one doesn't exist.
Clearly the boy here in Pickerington is a much different story because he actaully attacked someone. I think many of our educators are trap in their thinking by requiring that deadly weapons are only knifes and guns. There are many deadly weapons and many times we don't find out about the weapon until it is used. Has there ever been anyone killed by an automoble? Yet our schools allow hundreds of these deadly weapons in their parking lots everyday.
I think it is time we get an answer from our educators who just recieved a 4% raise to make a decision about this young man.
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