Police To Crack Down On Student Walkouts

[Jeffrey]

Truants Could Face Fines, Community Service

POSTED: 6:57 am PST March 28, 2006
UPDATED: 10:07 am PST March 29, 2006

**LOS ANGELES – **Los Angeles law enforcement officials plan to crack down on students who leave campus Wednesday by issuing truancy citations. LA School Superintendent Roy Romer says students leaving campus will be automatically considered truant.

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Truant students could face discipline ranging from suspension to exclusion from certain school-sponsored functions. Students who are cited by law enforcement officers can face fines up to 200 dollars and 20 days of community service.

Despite school lockdowns and rainy weather, some 11,000 students from nearly two dozen Los Angeles County campuses skipped school Tuesday as immigrant-rights rallies continued, leading to some arrests.

About 8,000 students from the Los Angeles Unified School District and 3,000 students from other schools countywide took part in protests Tuesday, or at least did not show up for class, LAUSD Superintendent Roy Romer said.

More…

nbc4.tv/education/8312992/detail.html

 

[wabrams]

Good for the police.

 

[Jeffrey]

Yup.

:yup:

Actions have consequences.

wabrams:

Good for the police.

 

[wabrams]

Jeffrey:

Yup.

:yup:

Actions have consequences.

Stinks being a teenager and having to learn that kinda stuff, but better to learn it young when the consequences are less severe.

 

[gilliam]

wabrams:

Stinks being a teenager and having to learn that kinda stuff, but better to learn it young when the consequences are less severe.

US teen charged with threatening Bush

Wednesday Mar 29 19:47 AEDT

AP - A 13-year-old American boy was charged with threatening US President George W Bush in two emails sent to his mayor.

Investigators did not find anything in a search of the boy’s Florence, Kentucky home to make them think he was planning to carry out the alleged threats, police Captain Linny Cloyd said. The boy was in the custody of his mother at their home. He faces one felony count of making a terroristic threat and is to appear in Boone County Family Court within two weeks.

news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=93459

 

[Lance]

Good for the cops. They will be doing their job.

 

[beckers]

Happening here in Houston too. The first day i can give the students some support for speaking their opinion but after that everyone else is a copy cat and just trying to get out of school…

On other note- The deal here in Houston is the flying of the mexican flag at a High school to show support of the protest…

chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3758105.html
**Opinions split over red, white and green
**Mexican flags divisive topic as principal shows his support for student protests
**By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE
**Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Reagan High School Principal Robert Pambello was ordered to remove a Mexican flag Wednesday morning that he had hoisted below the U.S. and Texas flags that typically fly in front of his school — a symbol he agreed to fly to show support for his predominantly Hispanic student body.

 

[wabrams]

Something interesting from the article:

Reagan High School Principal Robert Pambello was ordered to remove a Mexican flag Wednesday morning that he had hoisted school — a symbol he agreed to fly to show support for his predominantly Hispanic student body.

Does he not realize that it’s actually disrespectful to fly a countries flag below another countries flag? Or maybe he did know??

As for the rest of it, if you love that flag so much go to the country it belongs to and stay there.

 

[Tonks40]

beckers:

Happening here in Houston too. The first day i can give the students some support for speaking their opinion but after that everyone else is a copy cat and just trying to get out of school…

On other note- The deal here in Houston is the flying of the mexican flag at a High school to show support of the protest…

chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3758105.html
**Opinions split over red, white and green
**Mexican flags divisive topic as principal shows his support for student protests
**By JENNIFER RADCLIFFE
**Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Reagan High School Principal Robert Pambello was ordered to remove a Mexican flag Wednesday morning that he had hoisted below the U.S. and Texas flags that typically fly in front of his school — a symbol he agreed to fly to show support for his predominantly Hispanic student body.

Ok, this gets me a little ticked-off. What’s the deal with school administrators and teachers supporting students to go against the rules to express their opinions?

My 14-year-old son told me yesterday that his English teacher, a radical liberal, was telling her students to go ahead and leave school to protest. She said that she supports opening the borders and allowing illegal immigrants to come here. Now, I know she has a right to her opinion, but to openly condone law-breaking behavior (walk-outs during school hours) is crossing the line!

I sure wish I could afford Catholic school right now!

 

[beckers]

Some students arrested in Houston. chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3759321.html

Not about protesting anymore
“They are going from school to school, which is disrupting school activities,” Ready said. “We have a safety issue present today that wasn’t as present in the last few days.”

Some students ran while others agreed to return to classes.

“We had a few leaders in the group and a couple of followers that did not, and were not interested in, going back to school,” Ready said.

One school doing it they right way!
Also today, students at Lamar High School staged a peaceful demonstration around the campus flag pole. The gathering took place before the start of school and was authorized by the principal.

“We’re trying to work with the kids to show them the right ways to do this and to keep them in school,” Abbott said.