Three Westside High School students were suspended after they smoked marijuana on the way to school, according to a Richmond County tribunal finding recently made public.
One student was suspended for the rest of the school year and the first semester of the 2012-13 school year for the Jan. 23 incident. Another student was suspended for the rest of this school year. Both were given the option to attend the Tubman Education Center Alternative Program in lieu of long-term suspension, according to a Feb. 3 tribunal finding.
The third student was suspended for 10 days, time he had already served, and was placed on strict probation for the rest of the school year. The tribunal panel showed leniency because of his disciplinary record, which had been “perfect” before this incident, the finding says.
The following tribunal findings are also from Feb. 3, and pupils were given the option to attend the alternative program in lieu of long-term suspension unless otherwise noted:
The following findings are from Feb. 6. Students were given the option to attend Tubman in lieu of long-term suspension unless otherwise noted:
Just how big is this Tubman Education Center Alternative Program? It must be packed!
It seems to me that some of these little darlings didn't get enough butt whoopings at home. Again, why do teachers have to put up with this garbage? Maybe mommy and daddy should be forced to home-school these little brats.
fatboyhog you are right on! These students need some good ol discipline at home and it needs to start at a young age and continue. Apparently mom and dad at not at home.
They are responsible for the problem. How is their home schooling going to fix it? I think there are other ways to make parent(s) responsible. Hit them in the purse. "You got money to help you rear your kids. You owe it to sociirty (taxpayers who are paying to raise their children as well as yours) to raise them right.
How can you get suspended for smoking MJ ON THE WAY to school?
KSL, maybe if mommy & daddy were FORCED to spend time with their little darlings, who are dropped off daily to wreak havoc on the school system, maybe they'd get a good dose of this behavior. Why should students who want to learn, and teachers who want to reach, be subjected to this?
And I've been a proponent for years about taking "benefits" away from those whose little darlings are constantly in trouble. If we are giving you money to help raise your child, and he/she is out if control, you should lose that free ride. Taxpayers are footing the bill and getting no positive return on their "investment."
Kind of the same way you can be fired for showing up for work stoned or drunk. As s taxpayer, I am not interested in paying to educate students who arrive at school under the influence.
Maybe one of the students has glaucoma or a medical condition that results in nausea, insomnia or chronic pain. That would be a mitigating circumstance.
And GA's greedy, self-serving educRATS can't understand why so many parents show substantial interest in educational options outside the bailiwick of local boards of education and their effete attorney-comrades.
Why weren't they arrested for possession? Personally I think marijuana should be legal. But at this time it is not, so why not punish them under the law?
bsnm, the kids are not getting kicked out of school. That's why the choice is ALTERNATIVE school. If your teenager was heading to school and was involved in an accident cause by the intoxication of this student/s who choose to smoke MJ on the way to school and the end result was your child was dead......would you be so flippant about your response or would you view this just a little differently.
As a side note, correct discipline by parents is not violence.
Send more children to alternative school so they can play hookie and nothing happens.
bonk, im assuming youre kidding, cause it made me laugh--you seem totally serious though
It was mostly a joke. Not too many hs students have glaucoma. Also, even in the medical marijuana states one has to be over 18 to get a weed card. Georgia will be one the last states to implement it. Georgia will be a good place to be when the end of the world comes because we're 20 years behind the times.
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