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[Chimetals 344]

how far is too far? whats reasonable and whats not?

[Aethix 129]

If it's a public school, that student can sue. And he'll probably win. This is almost as bad as the food police in that one North Carolina school.

[Princess Valhalla Hawkwind 39]

This is stupid. That school is squidding stupid. I donno how else to describe it.

[Chase 390]

Yeah, I mean, the school has absolutely no right to do that. It just doesn't make any sense, no matter how you look at it. I mean, put yourself in the school's "shoes." Okay, say a kid tweeted squid during school hours. That's bad, I guess? Let's give him detention. But expulsion? Really? If you expel students for cussing you're going to have to expel pretty much everyone.

[Chimetals 344]

the tweet was sent at one am, or something along those lines, not during school hours, or at least thats what the kid and his family are saying.

still, i would think suspension would be the more logical reaction, if anything.

[Chase 390]

Yeah I know, I was just saying, let's give the school the benefit of the doubt. Say the kid is lying and he really did tweet it on the school's computers. Does it deserve expulsion? No, I don't think so. So regardless of how/when the student tweeted, the school overreacted.

[DR SHRUBBERY! 1095]

So the kid said a bad word a couple of times. Online. To no one in particular. At 2:30 in the morning. I'm pretty sure that that does NOT constitute expulsion.

[Chimetals 344]

someone needs to bring in techies before they bicker in court.

and yeah, no debate about the overreaction here :/

[Aethix 129]

Yeah I know, I was just saying, let's give the school the benefit of the doubt. Say the kid is lying and he really did tweet it on the school's computers. Does it deserve expulsion? No, I don't think so. So regardless of how/when the student tweeted, the school overreacted.

Tweets have timestamps, and the tweet the student sent was at a time when it would be impossible for him to send the tweet from the school.

[Chase 390]

I know this, lol. I was playing devil's advocate. I'm 100% on the side of the student in this situation. I was just trying to say that, even from the school's perspective, the school messed up.

[pheonix561 2080]

"The school appears to be no longer speaking publicly, on the advice of it's attorney." That means the school already knows they're in deep shit for such a stupid move, and we all know they're going to let him back in with a free ride to graduation. But I keep looking at this and thinking "What's their motive, here? Are they really this stupid that they expel a kid for a reason like that one? Are they trying to get attention for some reason? It can't be that they're this stupid."