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« on: March 08, 2006, 04:36:49 PM »
Today I learned that a gay kid is suing my high school for $10,000+.  A kid wanting to get out of school punched him in the mouth and broke a few of his teeth.  The gay kid says the school did not adequately protect him from people who dislike gays. (note: the kid who punched him did not get suspension, but punished).  What's your oppinion?


I personally think this another Michael Jackson type case, where the prosecuter just wants the money.  Tension has been rising since the beginning of the year when the gay kid wore a gay rights t-shirt.  A group of other kids attacked this by wearing a pro-straight shirt.  So maybe here soon my school will be on national news.
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2006, 02:20:14 PM »
I think anyone suing the place where they are when something bad happens to them that the place itself is in no way responsible for is reprehensible, and the suit should be dismissed as a frivolous lawsuit.

Kids fight all the time. At my high school it was almost a daily form of entertainment. There was even a brief period where girls were having knife fights with each other - I witnessed three in one week. Don't know how that started but that was rather scary.

As for the fights in general, it was so accepted as commonplace that one teacher of mine who had an office in the basement, adjacent to the campus, once yelled out the window at a fight, "Knock it off or I'll come out there and kick both your asses!"  Amazingly, the kids stopped fighting that time. I think it was because they were laughing so hard.
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2006, 07:36:52 PM »
The boy's parent is trying to show it as a hate crime and is probally going to try to get the sympathy of the judge.
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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (Washington, D.C., April 1999) [2]

"One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." (ibid.)
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2006, 12:11:57 PM »
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I personally think this another Michael Jackson type case, where the prosecuter just wants the money.  Tension has been rising since the beginning of the year when the gay kid wore a gay rights t-shirt.  A group of other kids attacked this by wearing a pro-straight shirt.  So maybe here soon my school will be on national news.

I totally agree with you  :wink:  on the other hand, I do not have so much simpathy toward the school either, that's because I believe they themselves favored this situation by not forbidding such shirts before, I don't know, I've gone to a pretty strict highschool, if you got suspended once, even at the beginning of the year, you had very very ( very very very very very...should I go on ?  [cool  ) few chances not to have to repeat your own grade.

Believe it or not , I've seen very belligerant people change their hobbies and leaving the others alone no matter what or simply leave the school to us, joyous , maybe pretty naughty but seldom trouble maker students [smile
honestly I don't know who should win the case, we have easy money people on the one side and people who don't discipline on the other, were it for me , they should both loose and give quite a bit of dough to the poor and needy as a court ruling  :twisted:  :twisted:  :twisted:
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2006, 04:39:38 PM »
On the shirt thing, both students were told not to wear that type of shirt again.
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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." (Washington, D.C., April 1999) [2]

"One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." (ibid.)
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