[116631] in Cypherpunks
Re: I be scared
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Brozefsky)
Mon Aug 16 18:53:43 1999
To: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
Cc: cpunks <cypherpunks@minder.net>
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From: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
Date: 15 Aug 1999 10:10:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: Frederick Burroughs's message of "Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:17:03 -0400"
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Reply-To: Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net> writes:
> Civics are no longer taught in school, but are now actually
> *excluded*. Right after reading your post, I saw this article in The
> Washington Post about my old high school. It discusses the Exclusion
> procedure, by which schools exclude students that have committed
> crimes in the community outside of school, sometimes even while
> charges are still pending. Here's a snippet:
My youngest brother was recently involved with such a situation in a
little Delaware school district. He was getting a ride home from his
job from a kid he knew from school who happened to be carrying a
quarter ounce of weed, and he had a baseball bat in his car. Cops
walked up, saw the bat, considered it a weapon and asked for a search.
Turns out the kid was dealing and had alot of cash on him, and my
brother had but a single dollar on him. The cops inferred a transfer
had just taken place and charged them both with some nonsensical drug
charge. The school heard about this and he was suspended indefinetly
until a board hearing could be held.
I can't say wether my bro was buying or not, I'll never know, but the
fact that he was immediatly suspended from school without even a real
hearing was perposterous. Eventually the board ended up sending him
to this "special school" for kids with "problems" for a month or so
and then he went back to his original school.
What is remarkable is that all of this occured without any actual
conviction. He never was convicted, he just had charges brought
against him. He missed a week of school and spent a month at a
special school for no reason other than being charged, and never
convicted.
My parents were both very pissed at the school board, but there is
nothing they could do. My mom was on the phone all day every day
talking to the secretary of the board, trying to get the hearing
scheduled and done, she was stonewalled completely for a week or
more.
--
Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com>
Free Scheme/Lisp Software http://www.red-bean.com/~craig
I say woe unto those who are wise in their own eyes, and yet
imprudent in 'dem outside -Sizzla
