Raymond Hosier, a 13-year-old student in Schenectady, NY was suspended for two days for wearing rosary beads to school.
Hosier said the beads comforted him since the loss of his brother and uncle. He refuses to take them off and could be suspended again if he continues to wear them to school.
This still is America isn’t it?
Five students at a California high school – Daniel Galli, Austin Carvalho, Matt Dariano, Dominic Maciel and Clayton Howard, wearing patriotic U.S. shirts on May 5, Cinco de Mayo, were told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be suspended. Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.
The boys did not comply and were taken home by their parents. Matthew Dariano is part hispanic, but considers himself an American. The boys refused to apologize for wearing the shirts.
Big Brother is not only watching you, he’s confiscating little children’s candy. A third-grade girl at Brazos Elementary in Orchard, Texas was given a week’s detention for having in her possession one piece of Jolly Rancher candy in the lunchroom. School officials are defending the sentence. A state law limits junk food in schools and they did not want to lose their federal funding.
On Tuesday, March 23, Tonya Neff, a 47-year-old Southern California seventh-grade teacher was arrested for teaching while drunk. Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Tapp said Neff had taken prescription drugs and alcohol and an alcoholic beverage was found inside a container.
Neff has been placed on leave.
How often does this happen?
Here’s a video from 2006, taken by a student on a cell phone of a different drunk teacher. Note – I do not agree with the commentary after the school video indicating this was not a “big deal” or that it is fun to get so drunk you pass out. If a teacher is drunk in class, that’s a very big deal to me.
A 15-year-old student, Ballard High School, Seattle, was given a pass, put in a taxi and sent off to have an abortion during school hours, all without her family’s knowledge.
The girl’s mother had signed a consent form for use of the high school clinic, assuming that covered things like an earache, a sports physical, even birth control, but not for help terminating a pregnancy. The consent form did not mention abortion or facilitating abortion. The girl was told that if she concealed it from her family, the abortion would be free of charge.
“Free of charge?” Nothing is free of charge. Someone paid for this abortion. Is this what our taxes are being used for?
T.J. Cosgrove of the King County Health Department, which administers the school-based programs, says it’s always best if parents are involved in their children’s health care, but they don’t always have a say. “At any age in the state of Washington, an individual can consent to a termination of pregnancy.”
It is beyond bizarre that a teen cannot get their ears pierced without parental consent, but an abortion? No problem. What is wrong with our country? God save us.