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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.
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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.
Yes... the point is to cause a stack-overflow and crash the governmental system.
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Hey we're not modding you 'Knowledgeable'
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In some parts of the US, it's also known as "Science Textbook".
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SILENCE! I concur!
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
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