Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post

ThPhox writes "A student in the Plainfield School District in New Jersey is facing expulsion from the school district for a post made on his personal blog during non school hours. From the article: "A 17-year-old student who posted on his blog site that he was being bullied and threatened by the Plainfield School District will face an expulsion hearing this week, a local attorney said.""

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public schools are irrelevant

[Yonder Way]

Public schools are just day care facilities for single parents or traditional families to allow both parents to work so they can afford all the stuff they need, like a $300,000+ home, $80,000+ worth of cars, the beach house, the big HDTV in the living room (plus a smaller home theater in the family SUV).

Many administrators don't look at is as a position of compassion & opportunity, but rather one of protection and numbers. Protect the kids from killing each other before they graduate, and make sure they all score well on the standardized tests.

I remember how bad it was when I went through, and see how much worse it has gotten. As a father of two now (three before the next school year starts) this is something I'm very concerned with. So what did I do?

* I don't live in a $300,000 house. I bought $24,000 worth of land and $76,000 worth of house. $100,000. Huge yard, modest house. I bought the land outright and the house payments will be very modest.
* I don't drive a new car. I have two running cars and one very small car payment.
* I didn't buy any bigger a TV than I felt comfortable paying cash for. In fact, almost all of my big purchases are done with cash. Makes me consider how much I really need something.
* I don't have a single credit card anymore.
* My lifestyle is so inexpensive that my wife can afford to stay home with the kids.
* My kids are homeschooled. My 4 year old could probably graduate Kindergarten right now and she's doing a great job learning to read and write. My 2 year old is learning a lot of things past what most people think a 2 year old should be learning because she watches her big sister and learns. Between the playgroups and the field trips and the playground time, she's getting socialized (if I had a nickle for every time someone raised that issue...). She's probably more socially adjusted than Kindergarten kids because while the Kindergarten kids are in school my kids are out in real society interacting with adults. When they want to buy things, they have to take the stuff they want up to the clerk and pay for it themselves, and they aren't shy about it.

Public school is an antiquated system that is destroying our children. The public schools should be closed and/or privatized. The tax burden for subsidizing public schools should be relieved. People should pay for their own kids to go to school with subsidies available on a sliding scale based on real need. The public schools now are doing less and less with more and more money, to satisfy demands from the teachers to make better salaries for their 9 months a year jobs. How a teacher who works 9 months a year should make $70,000+ befuddles me. I'm all for a combination of homeschooling or private schooling with apprenticeships/mentorships. As a homeschooling parent I'd love to be able to contract with a private school for a la carte opportunities for subject areas that my wife & I are not well equipped to instruct in (like music).

Re:Absolutely NOT

[thc69]

AC is right. The police would be the proper authority to protect you; also, it should be in the bowling alley's interest to disallow such activity at their establishment.

That said, I would have found a way to defend myself. For example, did you consider applying a bowling ball to the bully's head? He'd never bother you again, except possibly to drool on you from his wheelchair...