Witch hunt at my kids school

[Nick O time]

yeah when i was in 5th grade me and a whole gruop of kids had to go to our school's guidance councelor. we were taking apart pens and stuff and putting them backwards so they would shoot out the internals. we made our erasers into army men and glued the pens to them. we had a whole group of kids doing this and then this one kid who we didnt like tried to hang out with us like every day and do the same thing. we just kept on ignoring him and stuff. one day the kid gets all mad at us and starts yelling at us and throwing a fit then he tells our guidance teacher that we were making bombs and going to blow up the school or sumtin. well we all had to go up to the guidance councelor and she took all of our pens and erasers and stuff away from us and we had to bring notes home and get them signed and stuff. it was so pathetic and we were in 5th grade not like we know how to make a bomb using only pens and erasers to blow up the school. schools now days are just so stupid.

[-Carnifex-]

I was kidding, just incase any of you thought I was serious..

[Automaggin2]

Thats so ridiculous. When I was in 6th grade, people were passing around the Anarchist cookbook on floppies. The shcool WENT CRAZY. They called in about 20 students, including me. How did I get into the mess? I dunno. Supposedly a teacher saw me with a floppy disk (which was used to computer class). So the admins called me down adn questioned me, called in the local BOMB SQUAD and detectives. I was interrogated for an hour or 2. I kept telling them I had nothing to do with it, but they kept saying "Were not stupid son, we will find out what role you played in it". They called up my parents, they had to leave work and come to my school. They searched my locker, tore apart my locker, and found a broken floppy disk. Then it got worse, they were talking about getting it sent over to a lab to get investigated and to retrieve the files off it.

It was SOOOOOOO bad. My dad flipped out on the principle of the school after they learned i had nothing to do with it. The principle lied to my dad saying they saw disks that had my name on it and my screen name (they got my screen name through another kid). I hate admins.

[Target Practice]

First off, Sam, I read several of your son's poems. I especially enjoyed "A New Man", "Fill This Void", and "Turning Me Around". Kudos to him!

I have a notion that I believe in very much: Tragedy makes for great art. Look at Shakespeare. Anyone who has read Romeo and Juliet will attest to that. For a less trite example, take King Lear. Now whoever says that the final scene, with the ever-faithfull Kent following his King into death isn't the saddest (and heroic) thing they have ever read, is full of crap.

School administrators (henceforth refered to as "The Man") cannot regulate these kids' poems unless there is serious need. Clearly, The Man has not demonstrated this. I assume that they will find all of the kids to be in perfect mental health. I am going to go out on a limb here, and say that every one of us has had those types of feelings toward somebody at least once in our lives. Even The Man has them.

You know what they say..."Those who cannot Teach, go into Administration."

[cphilip]

My name is not Sam.... It's Phil....

[shartley]

Originally posted by cphilip
My name is not Sam.... It's Phil....

Saved me a lot of searching to see what poems MY son was writing.

[cphilip]

Actually.... maybe you should check!!!

[shartley]

Originally posted by cphilip
Actually.... maybe you should check!!!

[71 LS6]

Phil, glad to hear things worked out. I had a similar situation yesterday. I went to an ortho appt. and came back 6th period with some food. My math teacher saw me and expressed her concern that I haven't done my homework in a long time. I apologized, and agreed to start doing it again, no big deal. So I went to the cafeteria to eat my food, and 10 minutes later she's back, asking if I have a few minutes. I follow her out into the hall, and the head principal is waiting for me. Around the corner, my counselor joins up with us. My math teacher left, but I had to go to the counseling office with the principal and the counselor. They told me the teacher had come to them, concerned that I dont do my work and that I seem tired a lot (my calc class has to go to school an extra half hour early for AP review, we're all tired). They then went on to explain that my pupils hadbeen dilated when I came in half an hour ago. I laughed, and told them I wasn't on drugs, just a bit of senioritis and I'm tired from stress (Dad's goin through some health issues, getting better though). The principal left, and the counselor suggested I call my doctor for depression. I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair. She thought I was clinically depressed, so now if I don't do my homework in all my classes, they'll send me to therapy or counseling.

It's funny, because they thought all of this when:
-I don't wear black, ever
-I don't have any piercings or jewelry
-I still have a 3.7gpa without doing homework for a month
-I didnt break any rules
-I didnt take any drugs
-I didnt fall asleep in class
-I never disprespected a teacher

We'll see where this goes, I might try to have some fun with it.

[cphilip]

...at least they are concerned about you. However wrong they might be its good to know they notice and are concerned right?

[Slimm Jimm]

I have clinical depression, ADD, and everything you listed except my GPA matches yours, 71 LS6. At least your school is trying to be proactive. The school here tested me in 3rd grade for ADD, and claimed it was habitual. They didn't take another look at me until I was going to fail my 8th grade year. My parents took me to a Neurologist in another town. Who diagnosed me as ADD in less than 15 minutes. This is where most of my fury towards school comes from.

It's good to know that at least some schools are trying to actually encourage kids to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. Unfortunatly, a drug culture is deeply imbedded here, either meth or weed and alchohol. Not just here, but other surrounding smaller communities think that it is O.K. to have a Kegger(sp?) after a big game. Another example of this culture is bills introduced into my classes legislative simulation, such as lowering the legal age of drinking to 18, legalizing marujana(sp?), reducing penalties for dealing, that kind of crap.

On another note, thank you cphilip for starting this thread, it's been nice to read that other people in general have had to fight with their schools at one point or another.

[71 LS6]

I agree that it's nice to know the school cares enough to watch out for that kind of stuff, and I actually thanked them for it. But sometimes, my school goes way too far on nothing and it gets very amusing. Anyhow, I'll be back to a 4.0 in a week, I do it every quarter, just not sure why the school decided to care at the end of my 15th quarter in high school. Now I'm just scared that if I skip an assignment they'll haul me back in to talk about drugs and depression. It's depressing.

I just don't like it when the school is suspicious of me for nothing. They talked to me earlier this year because they thought I was drunk in school, and said next time they suspect anything they'd drug test me. Now they suspect again, but they won't test me. It's like I can't get the opportunity to prove I'm fine, they just like to have something to fuss about.

[painTech]

schoold could be better. a lot better. easily.

[f3rr3+]

thats rediculous, schools are becoming more more sensitive and most of the time they dont look at the whole picture... i mean i could understand if your son had other issues but from what you say he has nothing of the sort