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Sat Nov-13-04 09:29 PM
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Girl Bounced from School for Cartwheels - BS Alert! |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=4&u=/nm/20041112/od_nm/cartwheels_dcLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cartwheels and handstands have gotten an 11-year-old girl temporarily bounced out of her Los Angeles-area school.
Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime. Snip Deirdre's father, Leland Faegre, said it was absurd to suspend his daughter for doing gymnastics when students were allowed to play basketball and other sports.
"Contact sports, apparently, are fine. But this one is so dangerous it requires the cartwheel cops," Faegre said.
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JohnKleeb
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Sat Nov-13-04 09:32 PM
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1. put this stuff in the lounge |
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Sat Nov-13-04 09:36 PM
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2. Already addressed...many times |
Cheswick2.0
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Sat Nov-13-04 09:40 PM
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3. she wasn't just doing cartwheels on the playground |
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she was also doing them in the halls between classes. That's not safe and she had been asked repeatedly to stop and had been given detention several times. Her parents should be punishing her, not the school. But I guess they are the "all rights, no responsibility type".
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Sat Nov-13-04 09:48 PM
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...but note that she wasn't suspended for doing cartwheels, she was suspended for refusing to stop when instructed by the school officials.
And I don't recall the football team scrimmaging in my high school cafeteria, so the comment from Faegre's parent is pointless.
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Sun Nov-14-04 07:58 AM
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5. Does this remind anyone of the sign that showed up in the 80's? |
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What part of NO don't you understand?
The cartwheels and such aren't the issue. Her continued refusal to follow instruction from theachers and staff is the issue.
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Sun Nov-14-04 08:03 AM
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6. some of the "we don't have to follow the rules" |
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but want all the benefits and will blame everyone else crowd?
Hmmmm... sounds like Republicans to me :eyes:
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Sun Nov-14-04 08:06 AM
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Guess tumbling in class is out of the question
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Sun Nov-14-04 01:12 PM
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8. kick for administrators with authoritarian personality disorder |
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