I have and always will hate the stupid word "cyber". It seems the only people who actually use the word are the idiots in the media.

Tough.

You will get over it.

PC LOAD LETTER: I have and always will hate the stupid word "cyber". It seems the only people who actually use the word are the idiots in the media.

(((cyber hug)))

he wasn't enrolled in public school this year

There's a liability issue, I imagine. Sorry, Junior.

FTFA: 'The appearance here is that the school board or administration seeks to punish charter school students, like Cody, by excluding them from school activities in which they are entitled to participate,' said Fred Miller, communications coordinator for PA Cyber Charter. 'That is wrong, legally and morally.'

He's not a student there. He isn't entitled to shiat.

So what happens if a student and teacher at this online school decide to cyber?

Do the parents pay taxes for that school district? They should get their money back.

So he will miss an opportunity to lean on a wall. Life will go on.

Doctor Funkenstein:

He's not a student there. He isn't entitled to shiat.

This.

He isn't a student there. If he's in PA cyber school, anyone who is familiar with the program wouldn't consider him a student at all.

I'm ok with this. You should either go to public school or not. Forget this taking just the parts you like.

If he knew how lame it is going to be he wouldn't even bother. Plus he doesn't know anyone. Suck it up and get ready for high school poindexter.

Doctor Funkenstein: FTFA: 'The appearance here is that the school board or administration seeks to punish charter school students, like Cody, by excluding them from school activities in which they are entitled to participate,' said Fred Miller, communications coordinator for PA Cyber Charter. 'That is wrong, legally and morally.'

He's not a student there. He isn't entitled to shiat.

Not quite:

Dances are considered social activities for current students, not academic or co-curricular exercises, like sports and music, said Jacqueline Rattigan, director of elementary and secondary education.

While the law lets home and cyberschooled children participate in the latter, dances don't fall into those categories, officials said.

Im guessing they need to read the regulations to see what is actually written or if someone pulled 'social activities' out of their ass.

Seems like a silly distinction to me, but possibly its falls under attempting to prevent students from bringing dates that dont attend those district schools?

Tprpa412: Doctor Funkenstein:

He's not a student there. He isn't entitled to shiat.

This.

He isn't a student there. If he's in PA cyber school, anyone who is familiar with the program wouldn't consider him a student at all.

Except the school district that states he shall be included in certain activities at the school such as music and sports.

Liability my ass! They could always charge him an insurance premium fee to cover liability.

This is just straight up teacher union vindictiveness. They hate the competition. How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

tshetter: Except the school district that states he shall be included in certain activities at the school such as music and sports.

I hear you, but this sounds like something different. Even his own aunt acknowledges that. Her quote in the article - It's not open to the public, or other kids.

I'm guessing this is more that cyberschool "communications coordinator" stirring up the shiatpot because he's a...cyberschool communications coordinator...whatever the hell that is.

tshetter: Seems like a silly distinction to me, but possibly its falls under attempting to prevent students from bringing dates that dont attend those district schools?

Looks like it:

"Eighth-graders from all three middle schools attending the combined dance won't even be allowed to bring dates, Rattigan said."

mark12A: How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

do you talk all faggy like this in the real world, or just on fark?

boristhebulletdodger 2009-05-17 11:54:57 AM
Do the parents pay taxes for that school district? They should get their money back.

You pay school fees to get an education.
You pay school taxes so your community isn't overrun with people too stupid for anything but crime.

mark12A: LHow dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

If you're trying to imply that Conservatives are mostly bred in the dark, scienceless basements of freaky religious home schoolers, you've succeeded!

PC LOAD LETTER: I have and always will hate the stupid word "cyber". It seems the only people who actually use the word are the idiots in the media.

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PC LOAD LETTER: I have and always will hate the stupid word "cyber". It seems the only people who actually use the word are the idiots in the media.

Agreed. The only valid use for it is as part of the word "Cybernetics", which should only ever be used to describe a mechanical implant in the human body (Artificial heart, pacemaker, internal glucometer and insulin pump for diabetes patients, and those experimental replacement limbs for amputees.)

Now, if this was something even remotely significant, like a senior prom that a graduating senior couldn't attend because he was on dialysis, I'd be mildly outraged. But this is a middle school kid who wants to go to an eighth grade dance to see some people he could see any time if he picked up the phone and arranged a ride to their house or a mutually agreeable meeting spot. As anyone who has even set foot on a college campus knows, middle school and high school are entirely meaningless, especially socially. The kid in the article needs to suck it up and deal with the fact that for one night, he won't be able to see his friends.

Quantum Apostrophe: Link (new window)

I know. I am talking about "cyberspace"

boristhebulletdodger: Do the parents pay taxes for that school district? They should get their money back.

Why? His parents DECIDED not to send him to public school.

You can't pick and choose what taxes you pay based on what you use. My household produces 1 bag of garbage a week, while my neighbor produces 3. But I don't get to pay 1/3 the city garbage tax.

Dear Jerk

You pay school fees to get an education.
You pay school taxes so your community isn't overrun with people too stupid for anything but crime.

___________________________________________

Exactly right, unfortunately communities are already overrun with stupid people.

What's his Fark handle?

UfarkHead: If he knew how lame it is going to be he wouldn't even bother. Plus he doesn't know anyone. Suck it up and get ready for high school poindexter.

read the article next time. maybe you missed this part. not arguing with it being lame, but he certainly knows people.

'I'm annoyed because I wanted to see all my friends. I miss them,' said Cody, who lives across the street from Poquessing Middle School, out of the district's three middle schools, which Cody himself attended in the past. 'It's kind of unfair, especially because I went there and I'm going back.'

I can see the two sides of this. There is the one side that says he is from the neighborhood and he is part of the district but of the school on the computer and not on the classroom. These are the friends he has and maybe he just did not read the rules to the right way but sometimes rules are hard to understand and do not include all cases of what might happen.

The other side of this says that people who do not go to the school do not go to the dance. It is just the little dance anyway and it is not like it will be fun because the head of the dance is in the article and says that they cannot even have a date so what do they do if they cannot have the date? There will not be the sex at the dance so I do not think it is some place I would want to go.

I would hate to be the judge of this but I do not think the kid will go to the dance unless he dresses like another student who is not going and maybe says he is that student. He could try to call the students of the school and find one who is not going and then wear that students outfit for the dance and maybe then the head of the dance would not notice this. What do you think of this idea the Fark.com?

mark12A: Liability my ass! They could always charge him an insurance premium fee to cover liability.

This is just straight up teacher union vindictiveness. They hate the competition. How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

It isn't that. Every student butt in a seat represents more cash for Big Education. Turning out drones to attach to the Democratic hive mind is far down on the list compared to money in the pocket.

So, a crucial element of his social education, i.e., semi-formal group interaction, will be denied him by the institution dedicated to learning and development in the young, because his parents decided his best interests were served by receiving the academic aspects of education at home.

Faintly retributive bureaucrat stupid, advance!

jjorsett: mark12A: Liability my ass! They could always charge him an insurance premium fee to cover liability.

This is just straight up teacher union vindictiveness. They hate the competition. How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

It isn't that. Every student butt in a seat represents more cash for Big Education. Turning out drones to attach to the Democratic hive mind is far down on the list compared to money in the pocket.

Hello everyone. I think I found the troll of the thread. And the second troll of the thread. LOL out loud. This thread has the two trolls of Mark and Jjorsett. LOL out loud. Two trolls in the one thread.

But this is a middle school kid who wants to go to an eighth grade dance to see some people he could see any time if he picked up the phone and arranged a ride rode his farking bike or walked to their house or a mutually agreeable meeting spot.

/ftfy
//does not abide today's pussballs

With tons of stories like this one coming to light in the media it has become perfectly clear that in order to become an administrator of any sort, any where you have to take off your smart cap and put on your dunce cap.

'Rules are Rules' arguments are good, in some cases but NOT IN ALL.

Nothing Sweeter Than Redneck Tears: mark12A: How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

do you talk all faggy like this in the real world, or just on fark?


Me sainted Ma is a teacher. Ignoring the political babble, Mark is right: the teachers' union and school administrators as an aggregate are not happy about the existence of education options other than the federal public school system. Keeping the stupid kid out of a stupid dance and viewing it with vindictive satisfaction as a victory falls well within the aegis of their typical behavior.

You want to go to the school dance? Go to school. Now stfu and quit whining.

//What a cyber-school pupil might look like

Jeff73: Nothing Sweeter Than Redneck Tears: mark12A: How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

do you talk all faggy like this in the real world, or just on fark?


Me sainted Ma is a teacher. Ignoring the political babble, Mark is right: the teachers' union and school administrators as an aggregate are not happy about the existence of education options other than the federal public school system.

or maybe they're concerned about whether these students gain any human interaction skills.

im guessing you guys havent taken that under consideration...it's easier to blame a vast left wing conspiracy.

mark12A: Liability my ass! They could always charge him an insurance premium fee to cover liability.

This is just straight up teacher union vindictiveness. They hate the competition. How dare one of the sheep avoid the sweet, sweet confines of the public school pasture, where the sheep can be indoctrinated properly into becoming reliable Democratic voters.....

This. Also, PARTY AT CODY'S HOUSE! Toga, toga, toga........

Nothing Sweeter Than Redneck Tears: or maybe they're concerned about whether these students gain any human interaction skills.

im guessing you guys havent taken that under consideration...it's easier to blame a vast left wing conspiracy.


I'm going to suggest that you(D) cease the political silliness just like I said that mark(R) should. You will also need to guess again because I am talking about the administrators, not the teachers. While there exist exceptions, the administrators' primary collective concern is maintaining their respective fiefdoms and the associated influx of federal dollars. I spent years working as a manager in one of the most venal, backstabbing union plants on the West coast and the stories Ma and her friends tell about union official and school district admin staff leave my jaw agape.

...I could troll a bit by arguing that there's irony in a group expressing its concern about a kid gaining human interaction skills by keeping him away from his peers, but I'm just not feeling it this morning. I blame the herbal tea; it's got me entirely too mellow to internet.

I'mThatGuy: You can't pick and choose what taxes you pay based on what you use. My household produces 1 bag of garbage a week, while my neighbor produces 3. But I don't get to pay 1/3 the city garbage tax.

Oddly I've lived many places where I paid based on the size & number of cans I wanted. Recycling was free, but the more trash you generated, the more you had to pay. It wasn't a flat garbage tax.

Worked great for me, since I recycle almost everything anyway.

hmmm, i go to cyber highschool, and it's great! I sleep till noon, get up, get some work done, sleep another hour until everyone else gets off school

Superjew2009-05-17 12:20:28 PM .If you're trying to imply that Conservatives are mostly bred in the dark, scienceless basements of freaky religious home schoolers, you've succeeded!

Or perhaps he is suggesting that Conservatives would rather send their children to private or charter schools, where teachers unions have less of a stranglehold. But that would defeat the purpose of your trolling, so keep on making crazy assumptions to villianize those Evil Christian Conservatives!

That aside, this issue is just another log on the public vs. private/charter school fire. I'm not surprised the public school officials are being assholes, but the parents/charter school admins should expect this. The fact that the charter school people can get any cooperation whatsoever from public schools is the real shocker of this story.

tshetter: Tprpa412: Doctor Funkenstein:

He's not a student there. He isn't entitled to shiat.

This.

He isn't a student there. If he's in PA cyber school, anyone who is familiar with the program wouldn't consider him a student at all.

Except the school district that states he shall be included in certain activities at the school such as music and sports.

FTA...Dances are considered social activities for current students, not academic or co-curricular exercises, like sports and music, said Jacqueline Rattigan, director of elementary and secondary education.

While the law lets home and cyberschooled children participate in the latter, dances don't fall into those categories, officials said.

Im guessing they need to read the regulations to see what is actually written or if someone pulled 'social activities' out of their ass.

Dur. Not quite. Sports and musical activities are usually governed by some sort of state or regional governing board (like UIL). Social activities, no.

So junior works on his tan that day. Big deal.

i dont see why he's complaining, 8th grade dances suck, i was forcibly dragged from my home to go to mine 2 years ago, and i still managed to slip out and go paint balling :)

Me sainted Ma is a teacher. Ignoring the political babble, Mark is right: the teachers' union and school administrators as an aggregate are not happy about the existence of education options other than the federal public school system.

Your mom must be a terrible teacher or youre just a poor pupil. There is no federal public school system, except perhaps DC which isnt where this takes place. School systems function on the state/county/municipal level.