Comments on: Discipline Incident Involving Bush High National Honor Student Draws Legislators’ Attention

By: Bob Dunn

Bob Dunn — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:41:17 +0000

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By: easyparise

easyparise — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:05:28 +0000

JoeDoe…nope…wrong again…not a teacher…and not at Bush…

By: MEGABITE

MEGABITE — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:02:59 +0000

Why? Because they want her to use common sense?

By: viewpoint

viewpoint — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:03:36 +0000

Who knows whats going on at school campuses? If you know, then standup an speakup at FBISD BOT meetings to get it right and settle. Failing to present you voice in public to your elected officials, has mindless to problems you know an express to others or friends.

By: tigers1

tigers1 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:40:50 +0000

The irony from a legislative standpoint there was legislation introduced and passed during the 2007 legislation session that allows for schools to take into consideration:
1. Self-defense 2. intent or lack of intent 3. Student’s displinary history
Legislators need to know what current legislation is in place before they work on legislation to duplicate something that is already in place. Good use of tax payers dollars.

By: easyparise

easyparise — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:32:47 +0000

Wow…and I love this remark, “We’re not attorneys and we’re not lawyers,” Rose interjected. “We’re asking you to come down a little in your language. You explain like we are seniors in high school.” Why? Apparently you’re denying a students’ education (a senior at that) simply because of ‘no tolerance’ and that you have no common sense yourself, so you’re asking an educated lawyer to stoop down to an education level that you yourself are denying simply so you can understand? Are you not educated yourself? Do you have to be spoken to like a high school senior b/c this was the last level of education that you slimed through? This is a telling statement in and of itself. I agree with Soup Nazi in that FBISD should just cut their losses and let Shirley Rose go…but she seems like the type of person who wouldn’t understand that she was let go. And don’t fire her on a Friday…Friday meetings are not to her liking… :-/

By: MEGABITE

MEGABITE — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:54:24 +0000

Yoyoma- What do you mean by detention? Surely they aren’t giving students a full day of detention for being late are they? (but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did)

By: yoyoma12

yoyoma12 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:08:49 +0000

in addition to this abomination, as a constituent at George Bush High School, students are written detention slips if they’re late to school. I think its ridiculous because some students have never been late in their entire life to school. The point of detention is to lower the amount of tardiness to first period. However, not all students choose to be late to school, and are rather dictated by they’re unreliable alarm clocks. I’m sure some teachers or administrators have been late to work due to insufficient technology which was solely forgiven by their “bosses.” I’d like to add that there may be a dilemma on FM-1464, such as construction and road re-routing, however, school police rarely direct traffic. Although, traffic may be an excuse or impartially a factor for tardiness, but it doesn’t give the right for administration to prosecute late students with detention. A less severe punishment should be inducted instead. If the judicial system becomes socialism, then the future could lead students into chaos and mass arguements because of childhood experiences. If they should teach anything at BHS for punishment, it should be reality. If you’re late to work, you’re boss doesn’t fire you the first time you’re late, maybe a warning or lecture, but not severe. The education system has changed dramatically and SOME executives running public schools need a little bit of auto-pilot for once.

By: americafirst

americafirst — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:34:52 +0000

This is a result of the “zero-tolerance” BS that removes any thought or human insight from the disciplinary process. It’s a shame that so many educators and school administrators enjoy using the zero-tolerance policy so they can actually avoid making a decision using common sense. It punishes students who make mistake far too harshly and it’s one-punishment-fits-all mentality is sheer intellectual laziness.

By: SoupNazi

SoupNazi — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:36:39 +0000

This is a great example of the idiocy that the district allows at Bush High School. Principal Shirley Rose must have pictures of Dr. Jenney naked or know where all the bodies are buried. She continues to create chaos, stiffel education and just allow stupidity to take place in regards to here assistant administrators. Parsons is a complete incompetent run out of another eastside school and who can forget the Andre Credit debacle from last year…
FBISD should cut their loses and send her packing.

By: MEGABITE

MEGABITE — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:38:22 +0000

Total kneejerk lunacy by school administrators nowdays. It’s ridiculous. Really a shame a bill has to be passed to make them use common sense.