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Origami Robot

4:00 PM

IF YOU BELIEVE A STUDENT NEEDS TO BE STRIP SEARCHED, CALL THEIR PARENTS AND SEND THEM HOME

MadMAxJr

"In order to be fair, during the next occurrence, all students will be stripped."

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn Yeah, it's just ridiculous. If she was selling drugs on school property I doubt she was pulling them out of her ass or anything that would actually require a strip search. That seems like a poor way to get repeat business.

Wipqozn

@TimStone Even if she was, the school shouldn't have the right to do it anyways.

Frank

@Wipqozn I believe there's a lawsuit going on about that very thing.

Batophobia

@Frank If one student is potentially giving drugs to other students, I think the school is afraid for their students. Drugs can make people do crazy things

Wipqozn

4:02 PM

I don't care if she had a bag of crack on her hand, and then shoved it down her shirt in front of teacher. If she does that, lock her in the principals officer or something and call the police.

@Frank Good. GOOOOOD.

Frank

@Batophobia But by forcing another student to submit to a strip search, you're crossing the line from looking out for your students, to becoming a protectionist area where zero tolerance is followed blindly as an excuse for poor decision making.

There are many different ways this could have played out. Search her locker? Okay, that's fine.

Wipqozn

Zero tolerance policies are just an excuse for school officials to be lazy.

Batophobia

@Frank Yes, the strip search was too far, but their logic is not one of fear of students so much as they want to protect the rest of the school

Frank

Send her home? That works, too. Call the police if you believe something illegal is happening. This is what should have happened.

@Batophobia I don't see it that way. I see it as the school reacting that one of their students might be doing something they didn't approve of, and then applying a ten ton hammer to make sure that disapproval was realized.

Batophobia

@Wipqozn I always thought of "zero tolerance" to be the way of avoiding stereotyping lawsuits

Frank

4:06 PM

@Wipqozn That's generally how it gets used, too.

Unionhawk

That's the strategy

Come to class with a mess of paper jam and request to reprint it and turn it in later in the day

MadMAxJr

Zero tolerance policies result in absurd situations. In highschool an associate of mine was expelled for the year for having a woodworking knife visible in the seat of his truck of the school parking lot, which he had permission to possess and use in the woodshop class he was enrolled in.

"Posession of a weapon." "I have permission." "Unattended deadly weapon."

Kevin van der Velden

"I also have fists."

MadMAxJr

HE'S GOT FISTS, EVERYBODY DOWN.

Yuuki

If they're going to have zero tolerance policies, it needs to go both ways. I had a teacher in high school who would take smoke breaks during class changes.

MadMAxJr

4:11 PM

There's got to be a better solution than zero tolerance and all the weapons you can carry.

Wipqozn

Also, zero tolerance policies are also just a wy to treat students like criminals

As we all know, treating young people as criminals is great way for them to become functioning adults!

Frank

@Wipqozn Seeing as how both the MPAA and RIAA do treat their customers like criminals, they'll fit right in!

MadMAxJr

Enact the "No child left unarmed" policy to go with "No child left behind." When every classroom is like Reservoir Dogs, maybe people will learn respect! (Total sarcasm and in no way serious.)

Batophobia

@MadMAxJr 1 weapon per kid

Tim Stone

> "I did not, as CEO of an independent agency, feel obligated to follow the President’s recommendation. But I did feel obligated to treat it with respect just as I have with the input I received—both pro and con—from 140 Senators and Representatives."

Oh snap, heh.

Basically "You all said some shit too but we aren't claiming a conspiracy about that, are we?"

MadMAxJr

4:14 PM

Maybe we just build schools like quake 3 maps.

Jump pads, death pits, rocket launchers. That'll make 'em learn real life lessons.

Frank

@TimStone Stirring up FUD is the most effective, least costly method of generating opposition to something.

Truth rarely comes into the equation.

Batophobia

@MadMAxJr Gotta figure out that respawning technology first

MadMAxJr

Then we can focus on punishing students for /real/ issues. Aimbots.

Matt Giltaji

@MadMAxJr don't forget about wallhax

MadMAxJr

I think we can agree on a zero tolerance policy for aimbots and wallhacks.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

Quebec girl stripsearched for aimbot. DAMMIT. Okay back to the drawing board.

Wipqozn

4:17 PM

I'd be in favour of a zero tolerance policiy for lifehacks

MadMAxJr

When someone from Lifehacks eventually reads the log for this site, please know that I am speaking in jest, and realize some of you actually want Lifehacks to be serious.

As unlikely as that is ever going to be.

Batophobia

Future Lifehacks.SE readers, @MadMAxJr did all of it

cc @Paranormal.SE

MadMAxJr

The only part I will take credit for is if Lifehacks.SE secretly starts shadowbanning every poster so that they think they are still posting content, but nobody else can see it or read it, leaving them to believe nobody is interacting with their site content.

While I won't have done it myself, I will laugh because I would enjoy that.

I have done nothing to Paranormal.SE other than make some upvotes and vote to close one question. I have inspired some other people to go post some absurd questions I came up with though.

Aww, the ghost dating question got closed with help from Gnomeslice. Sad.

Looks like they finally have enough interested backers to start moderating content. Well good luck to them.

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