Not everyone has an option
What? You obviously have not read the posts by the home-schoolers on here who claim an unemployed Mom without a high school diploma can educate her children just fine!
I won't argue that an unemployed Mom (or Dad for that matter), without a diploma couldn't educate their kids. The diploma is only a piece of paper that says you earned enough credits to get out of the school system......but really isn't a true measure of intelligence.
There are many that are working parents and aren't able to homeschool because of work schedules. Nor are they able to provide transportation to take their kids to and from another district than where they live.
Every state's homeschooling laws are different as to the requirements the parents have to fulfill in order to homeschool their kids.
In the state of Washington, all kids have to be registered & attend some type of school, unless other certain conditions are met, or the kids & parents are subject to truancy laws. It's called the Becca Bill.
BECCA Bill | Lewis County
If a parent has graduated from a major university, they should be immediately disqualified from home schooling. Just watch any interview with a student there and you know why. But that is not a concern, because they have all been brainwashed into believing government institutions are the only options.
The "assistant principle" Admiral is doing the usual "education is wisdom" BS. There is no link between them. Some of the best engineers I have worked with did not have a diploma, and engineers with doctorates couldn't figure out how a toilet paper dispenser roll could be changed.
That said, if a subject is being taught that the teacher is not familiar with, they simply do what any of us, including teachers, do. They find out the answer.
I don't have a problem with Admiral Tory and I have no doubt most school faculty have a difficult job. Pretty much babysitting 25-35 kids & trying to keep them all focused on whatever is the subject of the day. They just drive me nuts at how far they take some of their rules. As with the story in the OP, they could have just sent her & the other kid home for the day & a 'don't do that again'.
it's similar with cops many times. What used to be just a slap on the wrist & let go....is now handled by a SWAT team. (ok that's obviously an exaggeration, but you get the point)
Here is the major issue that most people do not seem to get. Many of these "water guns" and "BB guns" look just like the real thing. Legislation has required them to be made so they are recognizable as toys, but that does no good when those safety provisions are defeated by the kids to return them to a more real look.
I was once called by my school resource officers to take a look at a weapon they had confiscated from a student. Laying on the desk was a Colt Model 1911 .45 cal pistol. Without closer examination, it looked to be the real deal, However, it was a pellet gun that our star football player had brought to school to impress his friends at how "gangsta" he was. As a result, this kid lost a full-ride football scholarship to USC, It could have been much worse. Had he pulled that gun on my school resource officers, he would have been ventilated numerous times with their real 9mm Glocks.
I have not researched this story to the nth degree, but my money is on the fact that this young lady is no stranger to the school disciplinary process for them to expel her. Schools are restricted in what they can say and records are not available to the press because of privacy laws which prevent schools from telling their side of the story in the media.
If this was the only incident, it is ridiculous that she was expelled, but we have to remember that these officials are ELECTED.
We can ***** about it all day, but the people of that school district are responsible for fixing the situation.