Principal Joins Student Walkout

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Principal Joins Student Walkout
LAST UPDATE: 4/5/2006 1:23:04 PM
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About 200 Lanier High School students marched through the streets Tuesday to protest immigration reform. They walked around the downtown area chanting, and then returned to school. Lanier High School principal Richard Solis marched with them. “I don’t condone it, and I’ll have to correct it, but the best thing we can do is make it a teaching experience,” Solis told News Radio 1200 WOAI.

Solis said he wanted to make sure the students weren’t injured and didn’t get into trouble in the march.

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Or better yet, why not a call to the local PD to make them aware of truancy if he couldn’t keep them in class.
 
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wabrams:
Or better yet, why not a call to the local PD to make them aware of truancy if he couldn’t keep them in class.
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Isn’t it called “job abandonment” when you walk off the job like that? As I recall, it’s one of the few things you can automatically fire a Civil Servant for.
 
This is too funny. We talked about this last night in my Introduction to the Teaching profession class. He was right where he was supposed to be, with the kids! So technically he was doing his job, making sure no one got hurt or in trouble and re route them back to school. He doesnt agree with what they are supposed to be doing but he is following his contract and staying with his kids to protect them, thats a prinicipals job during school hours, according to Texas educational law. if they fire him, he can sue, and most likely will win.
vern humphrey:
Isn’t it called “job abandonment” when you walk off the job like that? As I recall, it’s one of the few things you can automatically fire a Civil Servant for.
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vern humphrey:
Isn’t it called “job abandonment” when you walk off the job like that? As I recall, it’s one of the few things you can automatically fire a Civil Servant for.
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I believe it is, and it is automatic termination; they axed over half the New Orleans PD for walking off the job and/or failure to report for duty.
 
What he implies is that there is indirect support for this sort of thing from the school. Just because you syupport the cause doesn’t mean you should tolerate the walkout.

Now where should we draw the line on when it is acceptable to walk out? Who decides which causes warrant this? I am asking seriously, because it becomes a tought line to draw.

I’d just fail them for that particular day myself, and any others days they missed. Or give a “pop-quiz” (to no one in attendance) worth a lot of points.

Thanksfully, in private school, I would have been suspended.
 
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TarAshly:
This is too funny. We talked about this last night in my Introduction to the Teaching profession class. He was right where he was supposed to be, with the kids! So technically he was doing his job, making sure no one got hurt or in trouble and re route them back to school. He doesnt agree with what they are supposed to be doing but he is following his contract and staying with his kids to protect them, thats a prinicipals job during school hours, according to Texas educational law. if they fire him, he can sue, and most likely will win.
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Which explains why Johnny can’t read.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon10.gif
 
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TarAshly:
This is too funny. We talked about this last night in my Introduction to the Teaching profession class. He was right where he was supposed to be, with the kids! So technically he was doing his job, making sure no one got hurt or in trouble and re route them back to school. He doesnt agree with what they are supposed to be doing but he is following his contract and staying with his kids to protect them, thats a prinicipals job during school hours, according to Texas educational law. if they fire him, he can sue, and most likely will win.
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Not to mention that if something happened to one of the students the school could be sued and found liable because the students weren’t supervised. I think the teacher did the right thing. And teachers aren’t civil servants.
 
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koda:
Not to mention that if something happened to one of the students the school could be sued and found liable because the students weren’t supervised. I think the teacher did the right thing. And teachers aren’t civil servants.
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The school can be sued anyway, for allowing the students off-campus when they were supposed to be in class.

They can also be sued for failure to take the legally-required steps of reporting the truants and having them brought to the school.
 
vern humphrey:
The school can be sued anyway, for allowing the students off-campus when they were supposed to be in class.

They can also be sued for failure to take the legally-required steps of reporting the truants and having them brought to the school.
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In this litigious (sp?) society they can probably be sued to not letting them out - in other words, sued no matter what they do.
 
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koda:
In this litigious (sp?) society they can probably be sued to not letting them out - in other words, sued no matter what they do.
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Since they have a legal duty to keep the children in school, they would be immune to suit if they kept them in.
 
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