18 Signs Life In U.S. Public Schools Now Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons

[Lumi]

18 Signs Life In U.S. Public Schools Now Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons

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June 1, 2011

In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid. Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons. Most parents don?t realize this, but our students have very few rights when they are in school. Our public school students are being watched, tracked, recorded, searched and controlled like never before. Back when I was in high school, it was unheard of for a police officer to come to school, but today our public school students are being handcuffed and arrested in staggering numbers. When I was young we would joke that going to school was like going to prison, but today that is actually true.

The following are 18 signs that life in our public schools is now very similar to life in our prisons?.

#1 Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has announced that school officials can search the cell phones and laptops of public school students if there are ?reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or the rules of the school.?

#2 It came out in court that one school district in Pennsylvania secretly recorded more than 66,000 images of students using webcams that were embedded in school-issued laptops that the students were using at home.

#3 If you can believe it, a ?certified TSA official? was recently brought in to oversee student searches at the Santa Fe High School prom.

#4 A few years ago a class of 3rd grade students at one Kentucky elementary school were searched by a group of teachers after 5 dollars went missing. During the search the students were actually required to remove their shoes and their socks.

#5 At one public school in the Chicago area, children have been banned from bringing their lunches from home. Yes, you read that correctly. Students at that particular school are absolutely prohibited from bringing lunches from home. Instead, it is mandatory that they eat the food that the school cafeteria serves.

#6 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating.

#7 A teenager in suburban Dallas was recently forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using bad language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.

#8 It is not just high school kids that are being ticketed by police. In Texas the crackdown extends all the way down to elementary school students. In fact, it has been reported that Texas police gave ?1,000 tickets? to elementary school kids over a recent six year period.

#9 A few months ago, a 17 year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father?s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.

#10 A little over a year ago, a 6 year old girl in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.

#11 In early 2010, a 12 year old girl in New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. ?I love my friends Abby and Faith? was what she reportedly wrote on her desk.

#12 There are actually some public schools in the United States that are so paranoid that they have actually installed cameras in student bathrooms.

#13 Down in Florida, students have actually been arrested by police for bringing a plastic butter knife to school, for throwing an eraser, and for drawing a picture of a gun.

#14 The Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice has announced that it will begin using analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents and will place ?potential offenders? in specific prevention and education programs.

#15 A group of high school students made national headlines a while back when they revealed that they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

#16 In some U.S. schools, armed cops accompanied by police dogs actually conduct surprise raids with their guns drawn. In this video, you can actually see police officers aiming their guns at school children as the students are lined up facing the wall.

#17 Back in 2009, one 8 year old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.

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#18 This year, 13 parents in Duncan, South Carolina were actually arrested for cheering during a high school graduation.

For many more signs that life in U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons check out the short video posted below?.


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[Lumi]

How does the grass taste on the left side of the street sheep?

Graze away....

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[THE KOD]

#6 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating
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i will just pull out one and call bullshit.

They are not monitoring what the kids eat at lunch.

They are monitoring because the cafeteria is where the heavy duty fights usually break out.

It is a very difficult area to control. At least with the CCTV they have a chance to see who was involved and maybe this will stop the idiots from being crazy at lunch.

Even when I was in high school so many years ago we had several fights in the cafeteria where the police were called to break it up.

The GOP likes to point to Michelle Obama;s food plan and make it sound like the gestapo of food eating has entered the picture.

be for real .......

I see others with the same line of thought....

 

[Lumi]

#6 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending huge amounts of money to install surveillance cameras in the cafeterias of public schools so that government control freaks can closely monitor what our children are eating
...............................................................

i will just pull out one and call bullshit.

They are not monitoring what the kids eat at lunch.

They are monitoring because the cafeteria is where the heavy duty fights usually break out.

It is a very difficult area to control. At least with the CCTV they have a chance to see who was involved and maybe this will stop the idiots from being crazy at lunch.

Even when I was in high school so many years ago we had several fights in the cafeteria where the police were called to break it up.

The GOP likes to point to Michelle Obama;s food plan and make it sound like the gestapo of food eating has entered the picture.

be for real .......

I see others with the same line of thought....

In Texas schools, a picture's worth 1,000 calories


SAN ANTONIO? Smile, schoolchildren.
You're on calorie camera.

Health officials trying to reduce obesity and
improve eating habits at five San Antonio
elementary schools unveiled a $2 million
research project Wednesday that will
photograph students' lunch trays before they
sit down to eat and later take a snapshot of
the leftovers.

A computer program then analyzes the photos to identify every piece of food on the plate ?
right down to how many ounces are left in that
lump of mashed potatoes ? and calculates the
number of calories each student scarfed
down.

The project, funded by a U.S. Department of
Agriculture grant, is the first of its kind in the
nation. The cameras, about the size of pocket
flashlights, point only toward the trays and
don't photograph the students. Researchers
say about 90 percent of parents gave
permission to record every morsel of food
their child eats.

"We're trying to be as passive as possible. The
kids know they're being monitored," said Dr.
Roger Echon, who works for the San Antonio-
based Social & Health Research Center, and
who is building the food-recognition program.

Here's how it works: Each lunch tray gets a bar
code sticker to identify a student. After the
children load up their plates down the line ?
cole slaw or green beans? french fries or fruit?
? a camera above the cashier takes a picture
of each tray.

When lunch is over and the plates are returned
to the kitchen, another camera takes a
snapshot of what's left. Echon's program then
analyzes the before and after photos to
calculate calories consumed and the values of
128 other nutrients. It identifies foods by
Researches selected poor, minority campuses
where obesity rates and diabetes risk are
higher. Among those is White Elementary,
which is just off a busy interstate highway on
the city's poor east side, on a street dotted
with fast-food restaurants and taquerias.

In Bexar County, where the five pilot schools
are located, 33 percent of children living in
poverty are obese.

Researchers warn that obesity is not always
the result of children eating too many calories.
A previous study by the nonprofit center
reported that 44 percent of children studied
consumed calories below daily minimum
requirements, but nearly one-third were still
obese. Seven percent screened positive for
type 2 diabetes.

Mark Davis, the school's principal, said getting
consent from parents hasn't been a problem.
He suspects the small number of parents who
withhold consent don't understand the
project, perhaps thinking it limits what their
child can eat at school.

"Nothing in the program says they can't have
something," Davis said. "It just says we're
tracking what it is."

 

[Lumi]

Scott,

and now for something completely unrelated....

Dude, I found a great site for gear. :0074

Anytime

Lighten up Francis ! Just teasing :toast:

 

[Duff Miver]

It's time, way past time, that we did something about our schools which have become babysitting spas to look after children, some of whom should have never been conceived.

We now hire our teachers from the bottom half of college graduates. We should hire them from the top half.

We do not insist that teachers teach.

We do not insist that students learn.

We do not insist that students behave.

It's time to come down, hard, on incompetent principals, teachers and parents.

Teachers who cannot teach should hit the road. We should hire the best, and reward them if they produce results. Same for administrators.

It's time to come down, hard, on worthless parents. If students are unruly, disruptive and will not behave, parents should pay the price. Counseling, followed by weekend jail time if necessary if their kids disrupt school.

No more procreation without responsibility.

JFC, do we have to go back to involuntary sterilization of defective breeders?

 

[THE KOD]

It's time, way past time, that we did something about our schools which have become babysitting spas to look after children, some of whom should have never been conceived.

We now hire our teachers from the bottom half of college graduates. We should hire them from the top half.

We do not insist that teachers teach.

We do not insist that students learn.

We do not insist that students behave.

It's time to come down, hard, on incompetent principals, teachers and parents.

Teachers who cannot teach should hit the road. We should hire the best, and reward them if they produce results. Same for administrators.

It's time to come down, hard, on worthless parents. If students are unruly, disruptive and will not behave, parents should pay the price. Counseling, followed by weekend jail time if necessary if their kids disrupt school.

No more procreation without responsibility.

JFC, do we have to go back to involuntary sterilization of defective breeders?

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have to agree

they arnt willing to pay teachers except in Wisky

:shrug:

When corporations are asked why they do not hire Americans instead of going to Asia or India they answer that the people there are smarter.

Our children do not get the best of the best and do not have the work ethic to get good grades.

This problem may never go away.

If I had kids school age again, I would definately put them in the best private school I could afford.

 

[Lumi]

It's time, way past time, that we did something about our schools which have become babysitting spas to look after children, some of whom should have never been conceived.

We now hire our teachers from the bottom half of college graduates. We should hire them from the top half.

We do not insist that teachers teach.

We do not insist that students learn.

We do not insist that students behave.

It's time to come down, hard, on incompetent principals, teachers and parents.

Teachers who cannot teach should hit the road. We should hire the best, and reward them if they produce results. Same for administrators.

It's time to come down, hard, on worthless parents. If students are unruly, disruptive and will not behave, parents should pay the price. Counseling, followed by weekend jail time if necessary if their kids disrupt school.

No more procreation without responsibility.

JFC, do we have to go back to involuntary sterilization of defective breeders?

You have pegged it Duff,

It is a Union problem, and before you throw stones, it 's a problem both ways. The Union has certainly gotten the Teachers the salaries to an almost? :shrug: respectable level :mj07:

As I am typing this, on CNBC they are giving the West Coast Wake Up, California is 9 Billion in the Hole, the Budget is due by the 15 of June. The State Treasurer has said that State Lawmakers will not be paid starting the 16th and there will be no retroactive pay ! :0074 :toast: :00hour

Every week there are updates on the news about local teachers getting pink slipped.

There has been far too many laws and protections coddling children, too much PC that has gotten in the way of educators. I think this has pushed some of the better ones out.

 

[Trench]

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have to agree

they arnt willing to pay teachers except in Wisky

:shrug:

Not to worry.

Scott Walker intends to put a stop to that. No more cushy middle-class wages and bennies for teachers. Gotta knock'em down a few rungs so the Koch Bros. can keep climbing the list of the wealthiest men in America. Right now, Charles and David Koch are tied for 5th place on the list of wealthiest Americans.

But the good news is, at a net worth of $22 Billion each, the Koch Bros. are only about $1.5 Billion away from being tied for the the #4 spot.

But God willing and with the help of politicians like Scott Walker, dammit, I believe they can do it! :00hour

Come on Wisconsin, Ohio & New Jersey, won't you help the Koch Bros. reach their goal? It's up to you. If you don't do it, who will? :shrug:

Give until it hurts. Because... It's the right thing to do.

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