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	<title>Comments on: Needville ISD Appeals To 5th Circuit For Right To Control How American Indian Boy Wears His Hair</title>
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		<title>By: Joe Murphy</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2291</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Independent school districts and independent HOAs should still be required to follow basic constitutional provisions. "Independent" should not mean that you can be Stalin in The U.S. of A. and get by with it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Independent school districts and independent HOAs should still be required to follow basic constitutional provisions. &#8220;Independent&#8221; should not mean that you can be Stalin in The U.S. of A. and get by with it!</p>
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		<title>By: K.Stroup</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2290</link>
		<dc:creator>K.Stroup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So much for the "INDEPENDENT" School District, right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So much for the &#8220;INDEPENDENT&#8221; School District, right?</p>
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		<title>By: Kat_Princess</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2282</link>
		<dc:creator>Kat_Princess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm, you guyes ever pick up your latest ESH (Elementary Student Handbook)? LCISD's reads this: 

Administrative Romovals: 
In-school suspension (ISS) for 3 days or less (grades PK-12)

"3 days" vs "since the 6th day of school" ...wow, what's up  with that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm, you guyes ever pick up your latest ESH (Elementary Student Handbook)? LCISD&#8217;s reads this: </p>
<p>Administrative Romovals:<br />
In-school suspension (ISS) for 3 days or less (grades PK-12)</p>
<p>&#8220;3 days&#8221; vs &#8220;since the 6th day of school&#8221; &#8230;wow, what&#8217;s up  with that?</p>
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		<title>By: Joe Murphy</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2281</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NISD is doing this because they can,... for now. Homeowner Associations abuse the rights of homeowners, because they can, ... for now. 

It is shocking that anyone allows a school district or an HOA to abuse people simply because they can. Our constitution was created to keep these abuses from happening, but local and privatized governments have learned to get around the constitution. Mandatory Binding Arbitration, SLAPP suits, HOA foreclosures over a garbage can, and pitting neighbor against neighbor all add up to complacent voters who give away their civil liberties, because they were not using them anyway. 

This brave young man is learning more through the injustice if NISD than he will ever learn in class. I hope we learn from his example.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NISD is doing this because they can,&#8230; for now. Homeowner Associations abuse the rights of homeowners, because they can, &#8230; for now. </p>
<p>It is shocking that anyone allows a school district or an HOA to abuse people simply because they can. Our constitution was created to keep these abuses from happening, but local and privatized governments have learned to get around the constitution. Mandatory Binding Arbitration, SLAPP suits, HOA foreclosures over a garbage can, and pitting neighbor against neighbor all add up to complacent voters who give away their civil liberties, because they were not using them anyway. </p>
<p>This brave young man is learning more through the injustice if NISD than he will ever learn in class. I hope we learn from his example.</p>
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		<title>By: MaryB.</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2280</link>
		<dc:creator>MaryB.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So this is what NISD spends our tax dollars on........</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So this is what NISD spends our tax dollars on&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Kat_Princess</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2275</link>
		<dc:creator>Kat_Princess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"Texas law is clear that the determination of educational policies are state matters that should be handled at the local level when not otherwise specified. In substituting its own judgment as to what constitutes the best way of achieving educational objectives for that of the locally elected school board, the district court essentially hijacked NISD's legislatively afforded powers and duties thereby squelching its ability to regulate its population."
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Solemnly I ask: is NISD's legislatively afforded powers and duties to their feelings in essence the inability to control their own anger? Is their intention to show us that "throwing a child into" an  "ISS" environment, with specified interest into teaching that kindergartener a lesson -- thereby constitutes the only way to regulate its population? In keeping up with this most excruciating concept to denial of freedoms, once again it sadly speaks to my heart as the first several publications to updates that Bob wrote. I said it before then as now--- ISS is a simplistic approach that only speaks to denial of freedoms, and that students rights to learn in an educational "sound" environment with his teacher and piers. It is our/your tax dollars that are basically "thrown away" for what? To teach us all that they can do this because?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Texas law is clear that the determination of educational policies are state matters that should be handled at the local level when not otherwise specified. In substituting its own judgment as to what constitutes the best way of achieving educational objectives for that of the locally elected school board, the district court essentially hijacked NISD&#8217;s legislatively afforded powers and duties thereby squelching its ability to regulate its population.&#8221;<br />
~</p>
<p>Solemnly I ask: is NISD&#8217;s legislatively afforded powers and duties to their feelings in essence the inability to control their own anger? Is their intention to show us that &#8220;throwing a child into&#8221; an  &#8220;ISS&#8221; environment, with specified interest into teaching that kindergartener a lesson &#8212; thereby constitutes the only way to regulate its population? In keeping up with this most excruciating concept to denial of freedoms, once again it sadly speaks to my heart as the first several publications to updates that Bob wrote. I said it before then as now&#8212; ISS is a simplistic approach that only speaks to denial of freedoms, and that students rights to learn in an educational &#8220;sound&#8221; environment with his teacher and piers. It is our/your tax dollars that are basically &#8220;thrown away&#8221; for what? To teach us all that they can do this because?</p>
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		<title>By: Joe Murphy</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2274</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The ACLU looks for cases as easy to win as this one. Needville needs to educate their Board Members and and make apologies ASAP. 

I am sorry this young man has had to suffer this process, but god bless his parents who are teaching him early how to stand up for basic rights. We will all be better off for his efforts and his example. 

In addition, what is this issue with controlling populations with hair cuts? It feels like the 50s and the McCarthy era!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ACLU looks for cases as easy to win as this one. Needville needs to educate their Board Members and and make apologies ASAP. </p>
<p>I am sorry this young man has had to suffer this process, but god bless his parents who are teaching him early how to stand up for basic rights. We will all be better off for his efforts and his example. </p>
<p>In addition, what is this issue with controlling populations with hair cuts? It feels like the 50s and the McCarthy era!</p>
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		<title>By: MEGABITE</title>
		<link>http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/06/29/38746/comment-page-1#comment-2272</link>
		<dc:creator>MEGABITE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, it's all about control alright.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, it&#8217;s all about control alright.</p>
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