Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Exactly. If it had been a schools facebook page, with a school upload of "Homecoming" that changes the story completely, but the individuals own facebook page makes the school budding into a topic where they have no right to do so.
I remember reading an article on it this morning and my understanding was this was the student's personal facebook page. Can't remember which outlet said that though.
If a student posted a photo of himself with guns on facebook titled "homecoming" hours after a major school schooling - and students and parents expressed concern to the school - yet the school did nothing (perhaps saying "it's private property, what can we do"), and then the student shot up the place killing your child, I'm sure sure you're sue the school in a heartbeat saying it didn't act when it should have.
Maybe you would do that, but I don't feel it is a school's position to police facebook. The school's authority ends at the school grounds. It has been that way for centuries and worked just fine before liberals took control of the educational system. Liberals took over the education establishment in America with the result of increased school violence and drug abuse and decreased educational outcomes and their solution to the problem is to want even more control.
Quote:
There's a big news story in Denver right now. There was a school shooting at Arapahoe High School last December. A school employee just leaked a document (the school had been refusing to hand it over) - a report from the Principal and school psychologist about the killer prepared a few months prior to the shootings - where they dismissed concerns about the shooter's violent threats against students and teachers.
This is about a photograph on facebook, not about direct threats of violence made against individuals by someone who was already under investigation and psychological evaluation. You're comparing apples and oranges.
This is about a photograph on facebook, not about direct threats of violence made against individuals by someone who was already under investigation and psychological evaluation. You're comparing apples and oranges.
Exactly, they are comparing an actual threat, to a photo of children in their own home holding toys..
and they have the nerve to claim Republicans use scare tactics.. please
Perhaps it was overkill. Perhaps it wasn't. I don't know. I don't know this student's history.
But to say the photo and facebook are private property so the school has no business even looking at it is nutty. To say the school has no duty to look into the incident is nutty.
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a LWNJ say that Trayvon Martin's history was irrelevant to the Zimmerman trial I'd be a billionaire. Now that seems to be a different story. Oh.....the irony
I have to wander if parents are idiots to take much less allow a posting of that picture in the present atmosphere. Only thing that could be worse is if they wore black Arab dress also. I own guns but what happened to common sense.
I have to wander if parents are idiots to take much less allow a posting of that picture in the present atmosphere. Only thing that could be worse is if they wore black Arab dress also. I own guns but what happened to common sense.
what happened to the common sense that ITS A TOY, and people take photos all the time of themself, and their children SHOOTING guns without repercussions because of this that is a right in this country.
Since when did toys become more harmful than the real thing?
Not crazy at all. They took pictures of themselves with guns, called it Homecoming. That insinuates terroristic activity at a school function. That so many of you don't get that, is scary.
I take you'd have the same reaction to the SWAT team from the EPA, right? They're obviously terrorists, right?
what happened to the common sense that ITS A TOY, and people take photos all the time of themself, and their children SHOOTING guns without repercussions because of this that is a right in this country.
Since when did toys become more harmful than the real thing?
Now I think what the school did was assinine but don't focus too much on the fact that those airsoft rifles are "just toys ",those toys look real enough to have gotten people killed.
Hopefully they get to the bottom of this case, and fire any of the school administrators remotely involved in this particular case of stupidity. Any administrator that dumb has no place on the payroll.
Hopefully the individuals in charge of the school's policy will be sued and the kids get a nice settlement.
Last edited by Toyman at Jewel Lake; 10-29-2014 at 06:42 PM..
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
