Welcome to the world of zero tolerance, where students are not allowed to be annoyed:
An eighth–grader at West Central Junior High has been removed from school and may face a charge of disorderly conduct after school officials learned last week about a list that named students and school staff the boy considered irritating...In a telephone interview Tuesday, Grimm said the teen was taken out of school after being confronted Nov. 24 by Principal Jeff Nichols, who learned about the list late the previous day. A disciplinary hearing before the School Board has been set for Thursday. The list was not a product of the Internet, Grimm said, but was in physical possession of the student.
Grimm would not go into detail about the nature of the list, or explain why its existence was deemed serious enough to precipitate the student's removal from school and the involvement of law enforcement...
The superintendent went on to say there were other issues involving the student that needed to be addressed.
I would hope so, because otherwise I would vigorously argue that a student's right to describe another student as "annoying" is protected by the First Amendment.
Posted by kswygert at December 1, 2005 11:20 AM