Second-Grader Suspended For Saying "Hell"

Yes, it is up to the town to do something about it.

yeah, that's right!

the problem is, that this is all one country, so if people hear that something happened somewhere in the USA, they think that this could happen everywhere in the USA. (of course not everybody thinks like this, but usually you hear comments like "typical america")

would be the same thing to generalize something that happened somewhere in a european country to whole europe. people don't do that because europe isn't one single country.


it's because of things like that, that people laugh about the USA sometimes, saying "this could never happen here", but probably people living in a different state of the US are thinking "this could never happen in this state" as well. (that right, mousebounce?)

so a lot of this "laughing at the USA" that krb described in the other topic comes from stories like this one PLUS people generalizing it to the whole country, which is actually almost as ridicolous as the story itself.

Exactly!

thank you for the analysis

er, I doubt he said 'froggie legs' (thats just gay.)

But we do refer to the French as Frogs, and he probably made some joke about frogs legs ;d

I can't find the stupid article. It was frog something...anyway, he got into huge trouble, fines and all.

No. One person got suspended for saying hell at one school. It's probable that the same offense wouldn't have gotten him suspended in a different school in the same state, or even the same school district.

Becky

Oh hell, my friend got suspended from school for one day because she said f*** , when we were in 11th grade. I think that was a bit harsh as well. the teacher that turned her in told her she said "the mother of them all" and had to turn her in for that. There are more important things schools should be worried about, like guns, drugs, and violence.

Perhaps, the school district had problems with other students about profanity or behavior, and decided to make an example out of her.

Children are becoming far more aggressive these days. I was reading an article about a month ago describing situations that young students (pre-kindergarten to about third) are in. One student climbed upon his desk and preceded to throw objects at his classmates while calling his teacher, "a fat biotch". There were others that got into fist fights in the middle of the classroom and when the teacher started to pull them away, they turned on the teacher leaving bite marks and bruises.

This kind of behavior isn't a new-fast thing., unfortunately.

Sounds like most of the schools in New York City!