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Geckoman
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 Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:08 pm Post subject: Teen Suspended For Going to Girlfriend's Prom |
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Teen Suspended For Going to Girlfriend's Prom
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30669405/
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| "His Baptist school forbids dancing, rock music and hand-holding" |
Check out the school's website at http://www.heritagefindlay.org/
People have got to do their research before sending their kid to a church school. Many of them are Christian extremists, like this one. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: Teen Suspended For Going to Girlfriend's Prom |
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| "His Baptist school forbids dancing, rock music and hand-holding" |
That is mild child abuse, no? Was Jesus really against joy and youth? |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, one of the things I've noticed recently in Canada and the US is schools and universities requiring their students to sign an agreement that they have to follow all of the school's rules, even when some of those rules demonstrably violate the student's civil rights. I saw one such agreement requirement on the website for a graduate school in Alberta that was positively draconian.
I can understand when schools and universities require students to agree to obey the laws of their community or country, and some might argue that if one is not willing to follow the school's restrictions one should not enroll there. But I think that it should be illegal for any educational institution to set restrictions that impinge on a student's civil rights, especially when the restrictions (like no dancing) are ridiculously stringent. And especially when the school is a publically-funded institution like a university. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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This should do the social conservative movement a lot of good. I can just see hordes of other high school kids begging mom and dad to enroll them in a school just like this one next fall.
Having been exposed to crap like this, is it all that surprising that something like 40% of young people reject religion? (Wasn't that the number I saw somewhere the other day?) |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
Actually, one of the things I've noticed recently in Canada and the US is schools and universities requiring their students to sign an agreement that they have to follow all of the school's rules, even when some of those rules demonstrably violate the student's civil rights. I saw one such agreement requirement on the website for a graduate school in Alberta that was positively draconian.
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I signed one of those, broke the rules, challenged the legality of the rules under the landlord tenants act and won. In Canada.. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| Right. A court will enforce such contracts/clauses. And it's not at all hard to find disfavored clauses in lots of consumer contracts when you start looking. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
Actually, one of the things I've noticed recently in Canada and the US is schools and universities requiring their students to sign an agreement that they have to follow all of the school's rules, even when some of those rules demonstrably violate the student's civil rights. I saw one such agreement requirement on the website for a graduate school in Alberta that was positively draconian.
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I signed one of those, broke the rules, challenged the legality of the rules under the landlord tenants act and won. In Canada.. |
Good for you! Some kind of residence rule?
A couple of years back I was planning to take some classes for a semester at a university in Canada. The province signed an agreement with all the universities that there would be no tuition increases for a year. Then when I looked into one university, I discovered they suddenly decided during the summer to implement a new "registration fee" of $100, while all the students were away. I was seriously tempted to take them to court to have it quashed...but I decided to go to a university in another province instead. |
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