Slashdot Mirror

For people who hate digging through the ISD site,
here's the McKinney High School Page here.
- Slash

http://www.mckinneyisd.net/images/award.gif
They should give the award givers an award for POS design regarding the choice of colors...
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Banned Clothing:
All-black attire
Clothing, including tee shirts, which displays music groups, sex, violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, death, gang or hate slogans or pictures
Short shorts, skirts (must be at least fingertip length)
My comment: I don't know about your fingertips, but mine aren't that long...so I'd call fingertip length a short skirt!
Shower thongs, house shoes, military-type boots
My comment: WHAT? I CAN'T WEAR DOC MARTENS?

Grooming:

Bandannas, hairnets, skull caps
My comment: IIRC, there are some Muslim sects that require head wraps at all times, are there not?
Tattoos with disruptive, profane or lewd pictures or writing
My comment: But regular "I heart Mom" tattoos are perfectly fine.

Obviously there's some sort of strange thinking going on in the McKinney ISD anyway.
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Why don't just email them all...all 1328 email addresses!!!

Yep, I've got the whole email database...wasn't that hard really...just had to use the trusty old wildcard * in the fields to get an email dump.

To view all 1328 email addresses, just visit McKinney Schools Emails - use wildcards * in fields to dump all ... they'll soon know very well what a slashdot is :-)

The school website says that, if the school is closed due to snow or bad weather, that they will inform the Dallas/Ft. Worth area radio and television.

Here's some of the Dallas/Ft. Worth stations:

CBS 11 (KTVT), with contact information

NBC 5 (KXAS)

UPN 21 (KTXA), which has a news segment called the Teen Files, they may be interested.

Someone in the area may want to contact one or more of these stations, and give contact information to explain what Slashdot is.

A direct link to the high school's site. (NOT the district site, as mentioned above.)

The school district already has the solution to school violence. A dress code! Check it out.

Quotes for the lazy:

Efforts are being made by MISD to ensure the highest standards of performance for all MISD stakeholders and to promote a safe and secure environment free of the perception of fear, threat, or danger.

A strong correlation exists between student appearance and the perception and/or reality of school violence.

It then goes on to list all possible fun ways to dress and look.

Look at this they boast how progressive they are with the wireless laptop computers. They even have a technology master plan!
-CrackElf

Unfortunately, that would be prohibited by the schools dress code.

But seriously, look at that dress code! Is this a private school? Prohibiting "Clothing, including tee shirts, which displays music groups, sex, violence, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, death, gang or hate slogans or pictures"? I can see most of those things, but music groups?! Or prohibiting "Non-natural colored hair (green, blue, purple, orange, cherry-red, etc.)" and "Hairstyles that are disruptive (head and facial)"? There is abosultely no way the first can be considered threatening in any way, and the second should be struck down for vagueness.

http://www.mckinneyisd.net/cgi-bin/contactus.plx

So, what have we learned here?

1) If you hate a kid because he is different, say he claimed to want to kill you. He will be expelled and nobody will check your facts. Apparently, you can shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
2) If people beat on you, do and say nothing. Accept their abuse. If you try to stop them, you will be expelled.
3) If you want to be liked, do what everybody else likes. Difference is okay, but be different in a way that's respected.
4) Schools are full of people who want what's best for the people who are most like them. Students who need help passing through social situations are to be removed at all costs.

Oh, and the school's web page is here. You can email the administrators and let them know how you feel.

McKinney Middle Schools

It seems that interpersonal relations are not the only place this school has it's head on the wrong end of the digestive system.

And, the school's website is back up! Hit 'em again! Hit 'em again! Harder! Harder!

Contact info for the school district here. Web response form here.

Contact info for the school district here. Web response form here.

As someone else pointed out, hearing the school or district's (or other classmates') side of the story would be great. I think this needs to happen before we automatically assume there's an injustice here. I've done some quick searches for news in that area, but they didn't turn up anything. Can anyone share a link?

I'll pass along these semi-relevant links...

McKinney Independent School District home page.

Here are some media releases from that school district (18 months ago)... a bomb threat and, on a separate occasion, two students were arrested for pulling the fire alarm.

Interestingly, in the case of the fire alarm arrests, the school superintendent said:

Even though this situation turned out to be a hoax, we took the threat very seriously and initiated the proper precautions. Instructional time was not interrupted anywhere in MISD

No word if those students were allowed to continue at the school.

As someone else pointed out, hearing the school or district's (or other classmates') side of the story would be great. I think this needs to happen before we automatically assume there's an injustice here. I've done some quick searches for news in that area, but they didn't turn up anything. Can anyone share a link?

I'll pass along these semi-relevant links...

McKinney Independent School District home page.

Here are some media releases from that school district (18 months ago)... a bomb threat and, on a separate occasion, two students were arrested for pulling the fire alarm.

Interestingly, in the case of the fire alarm arrests, the school superintendent said:

Even though this situation turned out to be a hoax, we took the threat very seriously and initiated the proper precautions. Instructional time was not interrupted anywhere in MISD

No word if those students were allowed to continue at the school.

As someone else pointed out, hearing the school or district's (or other classmates') side of the story would be great. I think this needs to happen before we automatically assume there's an injustice here. I've done some quick searches for news in that area, but they didn't turn up anything. Can anyone share a link?

I'll pass along these semi-relevant links...

McKinney Independent School District home page.

Here are some media releases from that school district (18 months ago)... a bomb threat and, on a separate occasion, two students were arrested for pulling the fire alarm.

Interestingly, in the case of the fire alarm arrests, the school superintendent said:

Even though this situation turned out to be a hoax, we took the threat very seriously and initiated the proper precautions. Instructional time was not interrupted anywhere in MISD

No word if those students were allowed to continue at the school.

Phone: (469) 742-4000

Snail Mail: #1 Duvall St McKinney Texas 75069

Now give 'em hell!

McKinney Independent School District. I heard plenty of horror stories back when I used to go to a nearby school district. Give 'em hell.

http://www.mckinneyisd.net/

Perhaps there's an e-mail address or two where you can voice your opinion to the district administrators....

Even better, they have a webform for submitting comments at:

http://www.mckinneyisd.net/cgi-bin/contactus.plx

McKinney Independent School District
And although I'm not sure if this is the actual school he went to: McKinney High School

McKinney Independent School District
And although I'm not sure if this is the actual school he went to: McKinney High School

Seriosly, it is a shame what happened. I think most of us /.'ers can understand the Seans point of view.