This article is about a professor, Perez, at Tidewater Community College. She was being sexually harrassed and had a death threat on her by a former professor, Jay A Glosser. He had hired a hit man to kill her. She was told to drop all the harrassment charges and pay $10,000. She put a bag, without the money, in a parking lot and when the hit man picked it up he was arrested. Both the hit man and the former professor are serving a minimum of 7 years in prison. Perez is looking to sue the college for $900,000 and millions more to emotional damage.
Summary: The Alliance Defense Fund is suing the Deer Valley Unified School District for not allowing a Christian student group in Glendale to use the school's PA system.
Mountain Ridge High School's Common Cause Club wanted to invite students to an after-school prayer meeting. But school officials prohibited the announcement because the club wanted to say "prayer," said the ADF, a Scottsdale-based group that advocates for Christian legal issues.
A student representing the organization wanted to make the announcement Jan. 14 publicizing the group's weekly prayer meeting. The prayer takes place at the school flagpole before the start of the school day.
Opinion: I think this is stupid. I agree that you shouldn't display your religion during school. But I think it's fine if you have meetings before or after school. That's what Conrad Weiser does.
Jacqueline Duty a Russelville High School senior was kicked out of her prom because of a contraversial dress. The dress consisted of red fabric, with blue stripes and white stars; it resembled the confederate flag. School officials at the high school denied her entry to the prom because of the dress. She is asking for "actual and punitive damages" against the Russell Independent Board of Education and other officials. A press conference was held to discuss the issue.
I do not think the school had any right to kick her out of the dance. The constitution states freedom of speech/expression. The dress may not have been politically correct, but it was her right to wear it.
this article was about how truancy officers are finding it more difficult finding kids who skip school. this is because the parents vouch for them when they don't show up for school. they say that parents do not know the true value of education, that is why they let their children call off of school.
i believe that this article is partly true. i do believe that there are kids that call off of school to much. but i don't think that it is because the parents don't know the value of education. it is because the kids don't know the value of school. the parents have been there and done that, the kids have not even left the household yet.
The outdated school attendance law permits 16 years olds to drop out of school. 16 is the maximun compulsory age for education. They talk about how most children dont graduate from high school and they dont go to college either. I think that it is what the people want. If they want to ruin their lives and not graduate that is their problem they really should just stay inschool and tough it out and relax... it will fly by and then they can go to college and get a good job.
This article is about 14 yr old Barry Loukaitis. On February 2, 1996 Barry dressed up like a gunslinger with 2 concealed pistols, 78 rounds of ammunition and a high powered rifle. His 1st victim 14-year-old Manuel Vela died. Another class mate fell with a bullet to his chest and then Loukaitis shot his teacher in the back as she was writing a problem on the blackboard. A 13-year-old girl took the 4th bullet in her arm. He took hostages, but a teacher put an end to the irrational siege. In all, 3 people died, and Loukaitis blamed mood swings.Loukaitis had thought it would be "fun" to go on a killing spree. Loukaitis was convicted of 2 counts of aggravated 1st degree murder and sentenced to 2 mandatory life terms without parole. Barry was sentenced to life in prison.
I believe that this was the right sentence to give him. Life in prison is wayyy worse than the death penalty because you have the whole rest of your life to think about what you did and what mad you do sucha crime. Especially because he is a young teenager, I think the judge had every right to give him life in jail because if you would lay him off easy just because of his age, hes killing people at age fourteen i cant even imagine what crimes he would do as his life progressed.
This article is about a school that hired a school bus driver not knowing that he in the past has abused children. The school did there normal background checks and nothing came up. He had no criminal record. He was never charged with sexually abusing any children.
I don't know if you can trust hiring someone that has potentially abused children in the past. On the other hand he was never charged. Not being charged, it didn't show up on his record so the school has no way of knowing. I probably would still hire him but wouldn't if he was charged.
Schools in Oregon are being investaged in an effort to end "passing the trash" deals with teachers involved in sexual misconduct. These deals often include the school district offering money, health insurance, a letter of reference, and a complete cover-up of the misconduct. Often in these cases, the teacher will be able to move on to teaching at a new district with no adverse record. In many cases, the teacher will then receive the same treatment at the next school, and then the next after that. This under the table agreement is the cheapest and easiest way for both the district and the teacher to part ways without losing their integrity. Students are now able to sue the first school district on the list of resignations due to "personal reasons" if they are dealing with a misconduct situation.
To me, this really does need to stop. I can understand that it costs more to hire a substitute and give paid leave of abscene to a teacher, or to deal with a long, drawn out suit. On the otherhand though, the students are the ones who need to be worried about, not the people who like to touch children. No matter the expense, these people should be reprimanded, not let off with a slap on the wrist. Molestation, rape, and sexual misconduct are all crimes afterall.
A man is charged with sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl. it happened at the Reading School districts Gateway School For the Arts. He is a custodian. It happened on February 5 and 6.
I believe that this man should be in jail for a very long time. It is very gross that a man of 43 is messing with a 13 year old child.
This article is about lawsuits that are being made on schools that are keeping students from forming gay straight alliance clubs, in KY and TX. The lawyers say that the cases clearly show, there is a tremendous need for students to have a club where they can discuss how to deal with the anti-gay harassment they face.
Well let me start out by saying that I have nothing against gays but I think that they are just trying to get some attention.
in Manchester a former varsity basketball player is filling a lawsuit against Thomas Atwater after he admitted to fonding with her underwear in a vist to his home. The law suit shows files of assault and battery and also emotional distress to the victim. in 2005 she was invited to his home where they were suppose to watch a tape of an old game, he sexually as assaulted her while she was in his home. he stalked her and wrote her notes. In my opinion this is wrong and sick she was his player not his girlfriend why couldn't he have gotten someone his own age, he deserves this.
A student from singer elementary was seriously injured a year ago. her parents are filling a lawsuit against the school board because her injuries were not minor, she had injuries from her throat, stomach, diaphram and other areas. she has also alot of deformation in her face and will go on suffering for years. this is all because of negligence in a playground. the parents want to sue for this. their lawyer is going to take this to a jury and sue the school board.
This is ridiculos that a child isnt even safe with someone that is trained to supervise children. What kind of message are they sending? that the people they pay dont have a long attention span for watching the kids. the school board is going to learn a lesson with this one.
This article is about a kid who is suing his school after being suspended for ten days and not being allowed to attend his senior prom. Cory Johnson a lebanese native was nicknamed Osama after an assembly jokingly named him that. He said he became fed up with the nickname and said, "If i was Osama, I would have pulled a Columbine already."
This is just stupid. If you read the article you see that the school never took the threat seriously and never searched his locker or made him talk to police. Since his friends were there with him and they hugged and laughed about it after word you could tell it was a joke.
This article is about a basketball coach of a girls team at school. He got kicked out of a game for getting two technical fouls but hung around to start fights after the game. He made a fist intending to hit a 17 year old boy. He has to go to court to see what he will be charged with.
I think this man is stupid. Any 37 year old who has to go after a 17 year old because of a basketball game is pathetic. Basketball is suppose to be fun, not to start fights. He should be fired.
A teacher by the name of Ray Baker put a lawsuit against the school board members of the school he taught at. He accused the board members of conspiring against him, violating the Florida Government Sunshine Law. Baker argues that the board members who communicated secretly, declared his contract void, before they fired him in July 2007. In his contract there were only five reasons as to why baker could be fired. The board claims they fired him because he gave different credits to students for taking the same course, leaving out if they were honors or not.
I think that this case is kind of confusing because the school board gave a reason as to why they voided Baker's contract, but they contradicted themselves in the process. I agree with what Baker's attorney said, he said that the board members should have handled the situation like "grown-ups" not children.
Better health policies and programs can improve each student's behaviors and outcomes. It might also work for their education, too. The settings of these programs are guided and constrained by federal, state, and local laws. Knowledge and understanding of these policies are essential in health and education of school.
CDC have showed a review of their laws and policies. They talk about all that concerns the students benefits and tries to make the laws and policies more understandable to them as well.
This article deals with home-schooled kids, and whether or not they are allowed to participate in school activities. It mentions how high school sports are supposed to be an extension of the classroom. In public high schools, athletes have to meet standards in reguard to attendence, grades and behavior. In an Alabama school, a coach could persuade an academically challenged, but star player into being homeschooled to persuade his eligibility. The main argument in this case by those in favor of allowing home schoolers to compete for public school teams is that the home school parents are tax payers too. Granting home schoolers greater access to public schools would result in more governmental meddling into home schools, which is not wanted.
I think that they should let homeschooled kids play high school sports. The parents are tax payers and they should be allowed to take full advantage of the athletic system in order for the child to have physical activity, socialize and make friends and also learn what it is like to be on a team, which are all important things to learn in the work force. I think that the chances are unlikely for people to take advantage of this system like the school in Alabama did. I think that homeschooled children should have to keep up their grades also in order to be eligable.
A teenage sued a school who was bullied for appearing to be gay. He was awarded $440000 from the Tonganoxie School District. He quit school cause of the execessive bullying.
The kid needs to suck it up. Obviously there was a reason the other kids thought he batted for both teams. Quitting school and sueing he school is alittle ridiculous. Maybe he shouldnt have worn tight jeans, talked with a lisp etccccc..........
19 comments:
Alex K.
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/tcc-professor-files-lawsuit-against-school-officials
This article is about a professor, Perez, at Tidewater Community College. She was being sexually harrassed and had a death threat on her by a former professor, Jay A Glosser. He had hired a hit man to kill her. She was told to drop all the harrassment charges and pay $10,000. She put a bag, without the money, in a parking lot and when the hit man picked it up he was arrested. Both the hit man and the former professor are serving a minimum of 7 years in prison. Perez is looking to sue the college for $900,000 and millions more to emotional damage.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/peoria/articles/0129gl-dvlawsuit0206.html
Summary: The Alliance Defense Fund is suing the Deer Valley Unified School District for not allowing a Christian student group in Glendale to use the school's PA system.
Mountain Ridge High School's Common Cause Club wanted to invite students to an after-school prayer meeting. But school officials prohibited the announcement because the club wanted to say "prayer," said the ADF, a Scottsdale-based group that advocates for Christian legal issues.
A student representing the organization wanted to make the announcement Jan. 14 publicizing the group's weekly prayer meeting. The prayer takes place at the school flagpole before the start of the school day.
Opinion: I think this is stupid. I agree that you shouldn't display your religion during school. But I think it's fine if you have meetings before or after school. That's what Conrad Weiser does.
http://spofga.org/flag/2004/dec/student_law_suit.phtml
Jacqueline Duty a Russelville High School senior was kicked out of her prom because of a contraversial dress. The dress consisted of red fabric, with blue stripes and white stars; it resembled the confederate flag. School officials at the high school denied her entry to the prom because of the dress. She is asking for "actual and punitive damages" against the Russell Independent Board of Education and other officials. A press conference was held to discuss the issue.
I do not think the school had any right to kick her out of the dance. The constitution states freedom of speech/expression. The dress may not have been politically correct, but it was her right to wear it.
http://www.star-telegram.com/arlington_news/story/478720.html
this article was about how truancy officers are finding it more difficult finding kids who skip school. this is because the parents vouch for them when they don't show up for school. they say that parents do not know the true value of education, that is why they let their children call off of school.
i believe that this article is partly true. i do believe that there are kids that call off of school to much. but i don't think that it is because the parents don't know the value of education. it is because the kids don't know the value of school. the parents have been there and done that, the kids have not even left the household yet.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/02/our-view-on-man.html
The outdated school attendance law permits 16 years olds to drop out of school. 16 is the maximun compulsory age for education. They talk about how most children dont graduate from high school and they dont go to college either.
I think that it is what the people want. If they want to ruin their lives and not graduate that is their problem they really should just stay inschool and tough it out and relax... it will fly by and then they can go to college and get a good job.
http://www.karisable.com/loukaitis.htm
This article is about 14 yr old Barry Loukaitis. On February 2, 1996 Barry dressed up like a gunslinger with 2 concealed pistols, 78 rounds of ammunition and a high powered rifle. His 1st victim 14-year-old Manuel Vela died. Another class mate fell with a bullet to his chest and then Loukaitis shot his teacher in the back as she was writing a problem on the blackboard. A 13-year-old girl took the 4th bullet in her arm. He took hostages, but a teacher put an end to the irrational siege. In all, 3 people died, and Loukaitis blamed mood swings.Loukaitis had thought it would be "fun" to go on a killing spree. Loukaitis was convicted of 2 counts of aggravated 1st degree murder and sentenced to 2 mandatory life terms without parole. Barry was sentenced to life in prison.
I believe that this was the right sentence to give him. Life in prison is wayyy worse than the death penalty because you have the whole rest of your life to think about what you did and what mad you do sucha crime. Especially because he is a young teenager, I think the judge had every right to give him life in jail because if you would lay him off easy just because of his age, hes killing people at age fourteen i cant even imagine what crimes he would do as his life progressed.
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=664336&category=SARATOGA&BCCode=&newsdate=2/17/2008
This article is about a school that hired a school bus driver not knowing that he in the past has abused children. The school did there normal background checks and nothing came up. He had no criminal record. He was never charged with sexually abusing any children.
I don't know if you can trust hiring someone that has potentially abused children in the past. On the other hand he was never charged. Not being charged, it didn't show up on his record so the school has no way of knowing. I probably would still hire him but wouldn't if he was charged.
James Hampson
http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ssf/2008/02/schools_cut_secret_deals_with.html
Schools in Oregon are being investaged in an effort to end "passing the trash" deals with teachers involved in sexual misconduct. These deals often include the school district offering money, health insurance, a letter of reference, and a complete cover-up of the misconduct. Often in these cases, the teacher will be able to move on to teaching at a new district with no adverse record. In many cases, the teacher will then receive the same treatment at the next school, and then the next after that. This under the table agreement is the cheapest and easiest way for both the district and the teacher to part ways without losing their integrity. Students are now able to sue the first school district on the list of resignations due to "personal reasons" if they are dealing with a misconduct situation.
To me, this really does need to stop. I can understand that it costs more to hire a substitute and give paid leave of abscene to a teacher, or to deal with a long, drawn out suit. On the otherhand though, the students are the ones who need to be worried about, not the people who like to touch children. No matter the expense, these people should be reprimanded, not let off with a slap on the wrist. Molestation, rape, and sexual misconduct are all crimes afterall.
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=80007
A man is charged with sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl. it happened at the Reading School districts Gateway School For the Arts. He is a custodian. It happened on February 5 and 6.
I believe that this man should be in jail for a very long time. It is very gross that a man of 43 is messing with a 13 year old child.
http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/youth/12044prs20030122.html
This article is about lawsuits that are being made on schools that are keeping students from forming gay straight alliance clubs, in KY and TX. The lawyers say that the cases clearly show, there is a tremendous need for students to have a club where they can discuss how to deal with the anti-gay harassment they face.
Well let me start out by saying that I have nothing against gays but I think that they are just trying to get some attention.
http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_047074341.html
in Manchester a former varsity basketball player is filling a lawsuit against Thomas Atwater after he admitted to fonding with her underwear in a vist to his home. The law suit shows files of assault and battery and also emotional distress to the victim. in 2005 she was invited to his home where they were suppose to watch a tape of an old game, he sexually as assaulted her while she was in his home. he stalked her and wrote her notes.
In my opinion this is wrong and sick she was his player not his girlfriend why couldn't he have gotten someone his own age, he deserves this.
http://www.deridderdailynews.com/articles/2008/02/12/news/news4.txt
A student from singer elementary was seriously injured a year ago. her parents are filling a lawsuit against the school board because her injuries were not minor, she had injuries from her throat, stomach, diaphram and other areas. she has also alot of deformation in her face and will go on suffering for years. this is all because of negligence in a playground. the parents want to sue for this. their lawyer is going to take this to a jury and sue the school board.
This is ridiculos that a child isnt even safe with someone that is trained to supervise children. What kind of message are they sending? that the people they pay dont have a long attention span for watching the kids. the school board is going to learn a lesson with this one.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06354/747446-57.stm
This article is about a kid who is suing his school after being suspended for ten days and not being allowed to attend his senior prom. Cory Johnson a lebanese native was nicknamed Osama after an assembly jokingly named him that. He said he became fed up with the nickname and said, "If i was Osama, I would have pulled a Columbine already."
This is just stupid. If you read the article you see that the school never took the threat seriously and never searched his locker or made him talk to police. Since his friends were there with him and they hugged and laughed about it after word you could tell it was a joke.
http://www.kptv.com/news/15327060/detail.html
This article is about a basketball coach of a girls team at school. He got kicked out of a game for getting two technical fouls but hung around to start fights after the game. He made a fist intending to hit a 17 year old boy. He has to go to court to see what he will be charged with.
I think this man is stupid. Any 37 year old who has to go after a 17 year old because of a basketball game is pathetic. Basketball is suppose to be fun, not to start fights. He should be fired.
Kayla
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/feb/08/judge-weighs-whether-bakers-suit-vs-school-board-w/
A teacher by the name of Ray Baker put a lawsuit against the school board members of the school he taught at. He accused the board members of conspiring against him, violating the Florida Government Sunshine Law. Baker argues that the board members who communicated secretly, declared his contract void, before they fired him in July 2007. In his contract there were only five reasons as to why baker could be fired. The board claims they fired him because he gave different credits to students for taking the same course, leaving out if they were honors or not.
I think that this case is kind of confusing because the school board gave a reason as to why they voided Baker's contract, but they contradicted themselves in the process. I agree with what Baker's attorney said, he said that the board members should have handled the situation like "grown-ups" not children.
Gregory Price-Francois
http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/1259037/a_cdc_review_of_school_laws_and_policies_concerning_child/
Better health policies and programs can improve each student's behaviors and outcomes. It might also work for their education, too. The settings of these programs are guided and constrained by federal, state, and local laws. Knowledge and understanding of these policies are essential in health and education of school.
CDC have showed a review of their laws and policies. They talk about all that concerns the students benefits and tries to make the laws and policies more understandable to them as well.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020402829.html
This article deals with home-schooled kids, and whether or not they are allowed to participate in school activities. It mentions how high school sports are supposed to be an extension of the classroom. In public high schools, athletes have to meet standards in reguard to attendence, grades and behavior. In an Alabama school, a coach could persuade an academically challenged, but star player into being homeschooled to persuade his eligibility. The main argument in this case by those in favor of allowing home schoolers to compete for public school teams is that the home school parents are tax payers too. Granting home schoolers greater access to public schools would result in more governmental meddling into home schools, which is not wanted.
I think that they should let homeschooled kids play high school sports. The parents are tax payers and they should be allowed to take full advantage of the athletic system in order for the child to have physical activity, socialize and make friends and also learn what it is like to be on a team, which are all important things to learn in the work force. I think that the chances are unlikely for people to take advantage of this system like the school in Alabama did. I think that homeschooled children should have to keep up their grades also in order to be eligable.
http://blog.advoor.net/2007/07/11/5-most-bizarre-lawsuits/
A teenage sued a school who was bullied for appearing to be gay. He was awarded $440000 from the Tonganoxie School District. He quit school cause of the execessive bullying.
The kid needs to suck it up. Obviously there was a reason the other kids thought he batted for both teams. Quitting school and sueing he school is alittle ridiculous. Maybe he shouldnt have worn tight jeans, talked with a lisp etccccc..........
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