That's farked up.

Time to get every school administrator in the country, dump them in a pit, and divvy up their salaries amongst the teachers.

I kind of see the point. What if some gangbanger brought in a cane claiming an injury and started hitting people on the head with it? Still the reasonable thing to do is call the girl's emergency contact number and ask if she needs the crutches and then ask for a doctor's note the next day. With today's zero tolerance idiocy, I'm surprised she was not suspended.

Julieahni

Seconded.

/I smell a lawsuit.

Christ on a crutch, that's stupid ;)

This girl participated in basketball, track and soccer. I bet she was a good student. Without completely knowing the other side of the story, I am going to reasonably assume there was gross negligence here. This is a crime against an injured girl.

Julieahni: This girl participated in basketball, track and soccer. I bet she was a good student. Without completely knowing the other side of the story, I am going to reasonably assume there was gross negligence here. This is a crime against an injured girl.

Hell, even if she was a bad student who pooped on her history teacher, this is still disgusting.

/Go Florida! Way to earn that tag!

BigDumbGuy: I kind of see the point. What if some gangbanger brought in a cane claiming an injury and started hitting people on the head with it? Still the reasonable thing to do is call the girl's emergency contact number and ask if she needs the crutches and then ask for a doctor's note the next day. With today's zero tolerance idiocy, I'm surprised she was not suspended.

You can beat someone senseless with a book, too. Let's not have any of those in schools either ;)

This is ridiculous. The nurse knew she was being taken to the hospital for a knee injury. When the girl went to school with crutches, the nurse told the mother they needed a note. The hospital tried to fax a note, that the school didn't get because the school's fax machine was broken. Nurse takes crutches away and does not give Amber access to the elevator, forcing her to walk up and down stairs. In pain she calls her mom to take her home.

Then it gets really crazy

"I got home, took her immobilizer off, and her kneecap was on the side of her leg," Elalem said.

Forget the lawsuit. If some stupid coont school nurse did that shiat to my kid I'd be seeking criminal charges against her, and would be making sure she lost her license to practice medicine.

Either that or I'd be having a conversation with some Italian gentlemen of my acquaintance to arrange for her kneecaps to have a close encounter with a baseball bat.

BigDumbGuy: With today's zero tolerance idiocy, I'm surprised she was not suspended.

Word. Can't have people running around with potential weapons like crutches. Better take away those pointy pencils before someone gets stabbity with them, too, just to be safe.

Death to the government school system.

Takes 'knee jerk reaction" to a whole new level.

Down with biatches.

I broke my leg when I was 12. No one at school asked me for a doctor's note to use crutches.
Of course the cast up to my hip was a good indication that I had a legitimate need for crutches.

I tore the ligament in my ankle playing basketball for my high school. They GAVE me the crutches to use. Guess the physical therapist would be arrested for giving me a weapon nowadays.

It must take a dizzying intellect to make school policy.

Schools are pretty much obselete these days. They are so out-of-touch it's disgusting.

I say kudos to the nurse and to the school for using the rule book instead of using their brains. Those crutches could have been used as a weapon or could be used to conceal drugs or terrorists.

Rules are rules and they should be obeyed.

"We ask for a doctor's prescription or a doctor's note, but there's nothing that says take away the crutches," Cobbe said.

Overzealous Nurse is about to lose her job.

BizarreRecords: Time to get every school administrator in the country, dump them in a pit, and divvy up their salaries amongst the teachers.

Start with the DISD board here in Dallas...That place has been a crooked mess for decades and needs to be completely shut down. Shady contracts, excessive executive board member pay, etc..

Late to the party as usual, but my eldest needed another note from the Doctor that she needed to use the elevator at school because the first one expired. Seemed strange to me since she still had the knee high cast on her leg

Mister-E: Late to the party as usual, but my eldest needed another note from the Doctor that she needed to use the elevator at school because the first one expired. Seemed strange to me since she still had the knee high cast on her leg

Stuff like that drives me nuts. My seventh grader got in trouble for giving another student a "high five." It broke the "no touching" rule.

Liberals and their zero tolerance policies strike again!

/YAY!

SpinStopper: Christ on a crutch, that's stupid ;)

DAMN YOU!!! I WANTED TO SAY THAT!!!! *kick scream, please call waaaaahmbulance*

No, no, seriously, though, I know they're protecting themselves and the students from this girl suddenly getting on her two feet and swinging her crutches in a freely-flowing motion akin to T'ai Ch'i. But unless she's kunoichi, undercover mission, then guess what, SHE REALLY IS INJURED AND NEEDS CRUTCHES. Shouldn't that be evident enough?

She gets heat for this, meanwhile, there are boys in schools with overpowering BO (the kind of O that sticks around even after the B is gone) and they don't need a doctor's note for it?

When I was in jr high, some kids would come in crutches that were clearly not injured at all. If it ever happened that one kid came in crutches for a legitimate reason, a few other kids would bring their crutches from home and walk around. Not sure if it was hypochondria or for attention, but they were definitely not needing the crutches.

I'm not saying that's what happened here, but it's all I could think of when I read the article.

Florida is the best!

Nemo's Brother: Liberals and their zero tolerance policies strike again!

/YAY!

i fail to see what the fark this has to do with liberals or politics at all my good partisan pariah. and and btw, if you do feel the need to inject partisanship where it clearly has no place get your farkin facts straight first. republicans are responsible for zero-tolerance, not liberals.
/dumbass

SpinStopper: BigDumbGuy: I kind of see the point. What if some gangbanger brought in a cane claiming an injury and started hitting people on the head with it? Still the reasonable thing to do is call the girl's emergency contact number and ask if she needs the crutches and then ask for a doctor's note the next day. With today's zero tolerance idiocy, I'm surprised she was not suspended.

You can beat someone senseless with a book, too. Let's not have any of those in schools either ;)

Or pens. Pens can be dangerous weapons and henceforth, should be banned.

fark_me_running: Nemo's Brother: Liberals and their zero tolerance policies strike again!

/YAY!

i fail to see what the fark this has to do with liberals or politics at all my good partisan pariah. and and btw, if you do feel the need to inject partisanship where it clearly has no place get your farkin facts straight first. republicans are responsible for zero-tolerance, not liberals.
/dumbass

Don't feed the trolls.

ExJerseyGirl: Nurse takes crutches away and does not give Amber access to the elevator, forcing her to walk up and down stairs. In pain she calls her mom to take her home.


Most adults wouldn't stand for that- simply refusing to move if they knew the action would cause them physical damage as it did to this girl. (I'm sure there are a few that would try to macho through the pain knowing they're tearing the hell out of their leg in the process just to impress the ladies, but those aren't normal people.)

The only reason this girl kept walking on her leg till the pain was debilitating is because of threats from the adults. I fully support any additional punishment for that whole "abuse of of authority" thing to be introduced when they press charges. (Or whatever it is the keep charging teachers with for having sex with legal-aged students, or firing people in office relatonships.) The concept that you were intimidated into doing something you otherwise wouldn't due to the other person's position of power over you.

A single phone call could have solved this. Instead they injured a child in the name of some zero-tolerance power trip.

fark them till they die from it.

FTFA: Patricia Elalem said the nurse told her she had to remove the crutches because of a school policy prohibiting them without a doctor's note and that the intent is to prevent other students from being injured.

I don't get it. How does a student walking with crutches put other students at risk of injury?

Where's the child abuse charges?!?!?!?!

I say kneecap that coont nurse who took the crutches away. 'tis only fair.

Trance750: Or pens. Pens can be dangerous weapons and henceforth, should be banned.


My nephew had two pencils pulled out of his backpack and seized by an airport screener for being "too sharp." He snapped off the tops of the pencils with his thumb and shoved them back in the bag.

His mother had a pen in her checkbook. It was allowed to pass.

Clearly the real threat are yellow #2. If terrurists can take over a plane with a pencil, they're too damned dangerous to be in a school, in the hands of children! Pens are OK, though.

Where was the Principal during all this? Should not the nurse tell him/her what was going on to get specific instructions when the school policy conflicted with an obvious need?

/ the school nurse's office is usually close by the Principal's office
/ want to be that the school nurse is 250+ pounds and did not want to get off her keister.

SpinStopper:

You can beat someone senseless with a book, too. Let's not have any of those in schools either ;)

Boy can you!

True story: I was in 10th grade. Had a bunch of the same friends in honors bio that all had honors french the next period (which I had NO business being in, but was let in just the same). Anyway, I'm sitting between two friends, guy and a girl (who would go on to tie for first in class), and I'm telling disgusting jokes to my female friend, trying to gross her out. I musta said the wrong joke, because the next thing I know she's swinging for the fences with her text book and lays me out. My nose is pouring blood, I can't see straight, there's blood everywhere everywhere. I walk to the nurse (other side of the building, so there's a trail of blood) and get patched up.

What happened to my friend? Nothing. Not even a detention. I understood from that point on that certain people (i.e. a straight A student who letters in 2 sports) can get away with things that the average guy would get suspended for.

Then again, this was before Columbine, when schools didn't push the panic button when someone brought a nail file to school.

Good times, good times.

/we're still best friends, even 11 years later.
//to this date we argue whether it was the 4 inch bio book or the 1 inch french book that did the damage.
///end story time

ExJerseyGirl: Stuff like that drives me nuts. My seventh grader got in trouble for giving another student a "high five." It broke the "no touching" rule.

You should have followed up with "foot in ass" even though that breaks the 'no touching' rule too.

/we need to bring back the practice of tarring and feathering the stupid annoying people
//like those that want or vote for 'zero tolerance' policies

Any of you farkwits who claim that say resisting arrest in a traffic stop warrants a tazing have no right to complain about students' crutches being confiscated.

Because both are excess uses of authority.

No school staff should be allowed to physically touch a student like that without vital reason. That includes wrestling crutches away from a girl.

And if there was a need to penalize, then you simply suspend assign in-school detention, and sort out the details later, just like if there was a need to penalize some citizen for resisting arrest, then simply add that to the list of charges to be levied against you in the courts.

as long as Florida exists I will be embarrassed to call myself an American.

She clearly doesn't have a leg to stand on.

/Ilene
//all yur cliches is mine

Patronick313 Quote 2008-03-29 04:06:01 PM

Ok, enquiring minds want to know:

Did you ever do her?

"The school and the parent have two different stories," Cobbe said, noting she could not elaborate because of the pending litigation.

TRANSLATION: We farked up BIG TIME and don't need to make it any worse by sticking our foot in our mouth.



/In addition to civil litigation I would seek felony child abuse charges as well

I understand the policy is to prevent dumbasses from hitting each other, but this is still almost unfathomably stupid. As has been mentioned, kids can stab each other with pencils, beat each other with books... Hell, I remember threatening to hit a boy with a baseball bat during gym when he wouldn't stop making lewd comments when it was my turn at the plate. I could have done it before the teacher stopped me, and he's lucky I wasn't the least bit serious.

My point is, anything can be a weapon and it's better to let someone who was known to have an injury use crutches than take them away and cause what must have been agony.

This just in, the father of a crippled girl beat some assflap in a suit into a small, greasy stain with a stolen crutch.

Back to you, Tim.

"Zero tolerance" and "I'm the school administration so I'm your real mommy" collide to create a whole new vortex of stupid.

Jeff_from_MD:

No school staff should be allowed to physically touch a student like that without vital reason. That includes wrestling crutches away from a girl.

Physically touch a student? Wrestling away crutches? Did you read a different article than I did?

The Shatner Incident: Julieahni

Seconded.

/I smell a lawsuit.

RTFA and you would not only smell it, but see it.

/dont people read articles anymore on fark?

re-elect_jimmy_carter: The Shatner Incident: Julieahni

Seconded.

/I smell a lawsuit.

RTFA and you would not only smell it, but see it.

/dont people read articles anymore on fark?i>

Huh? Where ya been?