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| Obsessed Fan   Joined: Apr 2004
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| Principal Turns To Duct Tape To Help Student Keep Pants Up http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/biz...APsn_tape.html Principal Turns To Duct Tape To Help Student Keep Pants Up By The Associated Press (9/28/04 - DUNLAP, IN) — The father of a seventh-grader claims an assistant principal came up with a bizarre way to keep his son's pants from sagging in school: duct tape. Scott Allison told the Concord School Board earlier this month that his 12-year-old son, Spencer, was ordered by a teacher to lift his shirt after she noticed the boy's underwear was showing above his pants, a violation of Concord Junior High School's dress code. She sent him to Assistant Principal Patricia Walters, who told Spencer to pull up his pants and tuck in his shirt, Allison said. "She then proceeded to duct tape his waist, three times around the waist," said Allison. "Then she sent him back to class, in front of his peers." He said he worried his son would be mocked by his classmates at the school in the town about 20 miles east of South Bend. "This outrages me and shocks me," Allison said. Allison also said that Spencer's underwear would not have been exposed if the shirt was left down. "I don't understand what motivated her to ask him to lift up his shirt," he said. Board President Randall Myers said the board would not discuss personnel issues in public. Junior high Principal Kevin Caird said student discipline is confidential. (Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved __________________ Family Ties Seasons 1-5 on dvd!  | |||
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That makes me think that something fishy is going on in that school that goes beyond duct tape. | |||
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| Elite Fan  Joined: Mar 2002
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| Yeah, that does sound a little odd. Duct tape? When I was in HS the teachers used string. __________________ The only defense against a tyrannical government is an armed citizen. ~Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| Passionate Fan  Joined: Dec 2001
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| LMAO that's hilarious! Why didn't the kid say something when she was DUCKTAPING HIM...LOL! Man what a sight that must have been. | |||
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| Ultimate Fan   | My middle school teacher would walk up and grab the guys by the belt loops and pull them up. Sounds alright to me. These guys are trying to make a statement, and the statement is Duh! __________________ Real Gamers Wear Pink "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." — Ernest Hemingway | |||
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| I agree, something about this just doesn't seem right. But I agree that pants shouldn't be worn so low. It's disgusting sometimes. __________________ LJ | News & Politics | Battlestar Galactica | TS2 | PS  Watch Battlestar Galactica every Friday at 10pm! [/B] | |||
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| That's weird. Why didn't she call the parents and send the kid home to change or suspend him or something? That sounds a bit more realistic than duct tape. __________________ I know I can't expect the world to move underneath me, but for god's sake, could you try? lex/lana("I did it for you") felicity/noel("you're my first boyfriend") trey/alex(mixing business with pleasure) seth/chloe(every superhero needs a lois lane) | |||
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| She just sent him back to class? That's so weird. The policy at schools are usually to send them home if they don't have the correct uniform right? I thought that's what it was. Quote:
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| Extreme Fan  Joined: Sep 2003
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| i don't know. i don't have a problem with what she did. she just helped him fix his little pants problem. and calling the parents won't stop the kid from doing this. it just gives them a day off of school. now i bet he won't wear his pants that low again. | |||
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| Obsessed Fan Joined: Apr 2004
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| I agree. I don't think it was that big of a deal to duct tape the pants. The student should have followed the dress code and then it would never have happened. At my high school if kids wore baggy pants the teachers would staple their pants to keep them up. So a little duct tape is no big deal. __________________ Family Ties Seasons 1-5 on dvd! | |||
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| I actually think duct tape is a good idea. You don't want to get embarrassed in front of everyone when you're 13, the kid might have leant his lesson. I know a few guys who could use a bit of duct tape on their pants. When I was in high school, a guy actually lost his baggy pants in front of everyone. It was quite funny. __________________ | |||
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| There's a lot that we probably don't know about this story, but I will say that there are better ways of disciplining kids without trying to embarrass them in the process. I also think it's a bit presumptuous to say that the parent couldn't solve the problem. __________________ "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody." -Herbert Bayard Swope "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." -Abraham Lincoln | |||
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