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Student Arrested for Writing Essay
mcgrew writes "The Chicago Tribune reports that an eighteen year old straight-A High School student was arrested for writing an essay that 'disturbed' his teacher. Even though no threats were made to a specific person, 18 year-old Allen Lee's English teacher convened a panel to discuss the work. As a result of that discussion, the police were called in. 'The youth's father said his son was not suspended or expelled but was forced to attend classes elsewhere for now. Today, Cary-Grove students rallied behind the arrested teen by organizing a petition drive to let him back in their school. They posted on walls quotes from the English teacher in which she had encouraged students to express their emotions through writing.'"
So you're advocating a zero-tolerance policy towards the enforcers of ridiculous zero-tolerance policies? That's pretty recursive, don't you think?
Clearly, the essay was so disturbing, that if the Chicago Tribune posted it, the Chicago Tribune would be arrested, too.
First they're against GTA and GHB, and then GMO, now GPA. What's next, GIF and GMT?
Just be glad they weren't the kind of ruffians who point chicken nuggets and people. Those things a dangerous, and your buddies would have, rightly so, spent a night in the county lock-up for such brazen disregard for people's well-being.
Method of processing duck feet
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
ohferchrissake, don't mod me insightful, I didn't either. And if the essay were there, I wouldn't have read that either.
Hey, have you ever gotten a paper cut? Know how much that hurts? Now, that just takes perhaps an inch of paper edge. An 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper has 39 times that much paper-cut potential. In a ten page essay, you're looking at almost 400 times the amount of pain that could be inflicted. Then, what if he figures out a way to make multiple cuts with the same section of paper edge? We're talking lethality potential.
I'm really scared for the future of our country when kids these days are walking around with essays. I hear that Mexicans go around with them all the time, too.
Don't even get me started on pens. We'd be safter if kids brought swords to class instead.
"It felt almost as good as stealing cars from grandma." -- Margaret Thatcher, probably.
They won't be since they will be in jail. I'm sure some reader/viewer found a piece of their work disturbing therefore "they gots some jail time a comin'" for disturbing their peace.
Status Quo never wore black leather.
Yes... the point is to cause a stack-overflow and crash the governmental system.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Hey we're not modding you 'Knowledgeable'
Your comments disturb me.
SECURITY! Bring me the forms that I need to fill out to have her removed from the Central Bureaucracy!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
This is why
Thomas Galvin
If it was a Microsoft product the governmental system would have blue screened years ago.
Man, why you gotta dis my lifestyle?
In some parts of the US, it's also known as "Science Textbook".
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
SILENCE! I concur!
I was having a herpes flare-up you insensitive clod!
Police! Police! This man is clinically insane! he thinks shit is sacred!
I have never seen such a truckload of bullshit wasting a sheet of paper. Perhaps they shouldn't arrest him for conspiracy, but he sure deserves severe punishment for maiming the harmless English language and spitting out such crazy rantings. When someone said the new enemy would be essays I was afraid literature would suffer, but this text is to literature what you singing in the bathroom is to opera. ;-)
Now seriously: How come this guy is a Straight-A student???? I am afraid the average level of intelligence has dropped dramatically there in the US....
At least the Bible tries to teach you the virtues you should follow.
Sure it does, if you consider rape, murder, incest, slavery, ethnic killings, torture, etc. to be "virtues."
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Maybe the Grammar Police arrested him. :D
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
Ok, this is the essay in question.
Could have been worse.... It might have mentioned ZOMBIES!
-- 3 events that reshaped the world in the 20th century: WW1, WW2, and WWW