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Both Duncan and Holder emphasized that safety and order are a priority in schools but said too many resort to suspension, expulsion or arrest for problems that could be handled in more constructive ways.
Offenses that once landed students in a principal’s office now might land them in a police precinct, Holder said.
If you don't understand this rationale, there is a dunce cap ready.
If you don't like the federal government reaching into your school, remove you child from public school.
The federal government shouldn't be in the schools, that is the playground of the states. Yes, I blame Bush for starting this particular erosion of state rights, which the Obama administration has expanded on at an amazing speed.
If you don't understand this rationale, there is a dunce cap ready.
This is the zero tolerance coming back to bite you.
A plastic knife in a student lunch box is a WEAPON.
Biting your sandwich to make it look like a gun is considered a WEAPON.
You call the cops for weapons in the schools.
You suspend and expel for WEAPONS in the school.
The federal government shouldn't be in the schools, that is the playground of the states. Yes, I blame Bush for starting this particular erosion of state rights, which the Obama administration has expanded on at an amazing speed.
Why does your state execpt federal dollars? because the residents of your state pay for federal taxes for education.
Your problem isnt with Holder, it is with the tax structure. Until you fix your state's-federal government tax structure, then the federal government has a say
Once you divest from the federal government and taxes, then your state can act as atonomous entity.
Why does your state execpt federal dollars? because the residents of your state pay for federal taxes for education.
Your problem isnt with Holder, it is with the tax structure. Until you fix your state's-federal government tax structure, then the federal government has a say
Once you divest from the federal government and taxes, then your state can act as atonomous entity.
Actually the state-fed tax structure is more messed up than that.
Why have the fed collect money from the states only to return it to them with fed strings attached ?
The fed should collect what it needs to run itself.
The fed should not be collecting money from states only to turn around and dole it back out to them.
This is the zero tolerance coming back to bite you.
A plastic knife in a student lunch box is a WEAPON.
Biting your sandwich to make it look like a gun is considered a WEAPON.
You call the cops for weapons in the schools.
You suspend and expel for WEAPONS in the school.
Neither have I. And it's gone totally overboard in the past couple of years.
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