Even troublemakers deserve an education
In reference to the numerous blogs and editorials regarding the outbreak of fights at Grimsley High School, I think that even though the situation was severe and totally out of line, the students who were involved should be punished but not subject to expulsion.
Even though what they did was wrong and inexcusable, they still need to get a nourishing education that they wouldn't be able to get if they were out of school.
With that being said, there are plenty of other schools that they could attend in Guilford County besides Grimsley.
Joseph Johnson
Greensboro
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Good idea Joseph. We'll just bus them to different school across the county where they can raise hell there.
Posted on March 2, 2008 7:39 AM
Again neo, you are just a font of intellect. Good effort--at least you kept your ignorant comment SHORT this time.
Posted on March 2, 2008 8:29 AM
While I'll agree that education is a right, getting it from your local public school is a privilege that comes with some responsibility on the part of the student. When a child is expelled from their school for misbehavior, it should be the parents' responsibility to find alternative education for them.
Posted on March 2, 2008 8:52 AM
I have to say that putting them in another traditional school would be a bad idea. We do have SCALES for kids who are suspended long term. Now I don't know if this is a "nourishing education" (whatever that is), but they would be able to get an education, IF they want one. And they would not disrupt the education of those who want an education.
Posted on March 2, 2008 8:52 AM
While there are those that say people have a right or deserve an education, that is not so. All basic rights a person has exists without any need of another person to lose their rights in order to provide that right. Freedom of speech is a basic right, no one has to lose anything to give you the right to speak out. What you do not have is the right for your speech to be heard, because it would force people to be listeners. The only non-basic right guaranteed by the constitution is the right to a trial by jury, because it forces people to become jurors.
The right to learn what you want is a basic right. Free public education cannot be a basic right because it would force people to become teachers, and it forces people to pay for schools. School therefore is a privilege, not a right. And, as a privilege, it can be taken away at any time for any cause (the law requires a just cause). In the case of violence on school grounds, it is just cause for dismissal. Transferring problem students to another traditional school is not a solution. You would just be spreading the problem around over a larger area and disrupting even more students' educations, while putting them at risk of violence..
Posted on March 2, 2008 10:23 AM
TLC,
Maybe we just leave them all at your dear Grimsley to raise havoc. What say you?
Posted on March 2, 2008 10:32 AM
Chicken Little,
You took the words right from my fingertips. If the parents of these kids had to pay for a private education, they might not be so quick to whine about the innocence of their little darlings.
Posted on March 2, 2008 11:28 AM