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High School Seniors Suspended for Biking to School

DirtMcGirk

<b>WAY</b> Dumber than N8 (to the power of ten alm
Feb 21, 2008
6,379
1
Oz
That principal is a cunt!
This is why women should never, ever be given positions of power. One PMS day, and its suspended seniors and I will promise impending legal action.
 

X3pilot

Texans fan - LOL
Aug 13, 2007
5,860
1
SoMD
Stupid. Administrators ( my son's HS of 1000 students has 8 administrators) don't want to deal with issues so they just suspend. Today show today had a story of a girl who had an assignment and made an anti bullying video and a fake FB page (which she said was fake) and it was an awesome project. She got suspended for 5 days for "creating a disturbance" because some other stalker parent saw the FB page and freaked out. No Child Left Behind? How about Every Child Left Alone and let them be kids.
 

DirtMcGirk

<b>WAY</b> Dumber than N8 (to the power of ten alm
Feb 21, 2008
6,379
1
Oz
I'm going to run on the platform of "Every Child Left Behind."
Mostly 'cause I hate kids. And the parents of most kids. Somehow in the last 20 years America has REALLY turned the retard corner when it comes to kids.
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
9,839
15
So Cal
I'm going to run on the platform of "Every Child Left Behind."
Mostly 'cause I hate kids. And the parents of most kids. Somehow in the last 20 years America has REALLY turned the retard corner when it comes to kids.
That's why I beat my kid every day.
 

rockofullr

confused
Jun 11, 2009
7,342
924
East Bay, Cali
That principal is a cunt!
This is why women should never, ever be given positions of power. One PMS day, and its suspended seniors and I will promise impending legal action.
I'm going to run on the platform of "Every Child Left Behind."
Mostly 'cause I hate kids. And the parents of most kids. Somehow in the last 20 years America has REALLY turned the retard corner when it comes to kids.
Whoa there Mr. Ragypants having a drink early?

If you are then I'm jelly.
 

DirtMcGirk

<b>WAY</b> Dumber than N8 (to the power of ten alm
Feb 21, 2008
6,379
1
Oz
This is me sober. I get a lot worse when I drink. Or a lot friendlier.
 

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Turbo Monkey
Jun 20, 2005
1,678
2
San Francisco
I almost got suspended and withheld from walking at graduation for riding my bike to school during senior week. I had permission from my physics teacher to leave my bike in the back of her room, but security and the principal freaked out that I had brought my bike inside... for safety and also in part because it could leave skid marks on the floor and damage the building... ironic because a week after we were graduating the building was going to be demolished to make room for a new school building.
 

baca262

Monkey
Aug 16, 2011
392
0
lol skid marks. you should've raided the school with a local street bmx crew wearing ski masks after graduation. cunts.
 

Jim Mac

MAKE ENDURO GREAT AGAIN
May 21, 2004
6,352
282
the middle east of NY
I almost got suspended and withheld from walking at graduation for riding my bike to school during senior week. I had permission from my physics teacher to leave my bike in the back of her room, but security and the principal freaked out that I had brought my bike inside... for safety and also in part because it could leave skid marks on the floor and damage the building... ironic because a week after we were graduating the building was going to be demolished to make room for a new school building.
That's more about power and control!
 

dante

Unabomber
Feb 13, 2004
8,807
9
looking for classic NE singletrack
That was fast....

The Principal at Kenowa Hills High School has issued an apology for summarily suspending a quarter of the senior class for organizing a bike parade to school on the last day of classes. Principal Katie Pennington says in the letter posted on the schools website that her &#8220;My actions and emotion overshadowed what should have been a very positive senior activity&#8221;. Instead of a prank, she is now calling it a &#8220;Senior Surprise&#8221;.

She says they didn&#8217;t have all the facts when they acted. Class president Zac Totten says it all got a little out of hand.

65-students were sent home, some missing finals, and that touched off a furious response from parents who took their anger to the school board.

Records will be expunged, everyone will graduate and they are now talking about making the Bike Parade an annual event for Seniors.
 

4130biker

PM me about Tantrum Cycles!
May 24, 2007
3,884
450
"...making the Bike Parade an annual event for Seniors. "

Now that's what I'm talkin' bout!

I was the one of five bmxers at my high school of 1200 and this would have been a dream come true!
 

dante

Unabomber
Feb 13, 2004
8,807
9
looking for classic NE singletrack
What's funny was the "dangerous" part of this whole thing. Dangerous? Seriously? It's a slow suburban street with a wide shoulder... Even without the police escort they would have been fine.

This was the road to my HS, and while the speed limit was 30mph everybody usually did 45+. Not a single person rode a bike to school back then, although this was 20 years ago and gasoline was under $1/gallon. That would have been dangerous, although it would have been just as funny, as every single person going to school had to take one of two roads for 1.5-2 miles. It was a clusterf*&k on a normal day, I can't imagine what it would have been like with 30 buses and 200 cars backed up behind a bicycle parade...
 

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
23,314
13,604
directly above the center of the earth
funny but back in the dark ages before rampant morbid obesity (mid 70's) the bike racks/pen at Santa Monica High was always packed with 200-300+ bicycles. No bike lanes, busy streets, no lines of cars of parents picking up or dropping off students. You rode, walked, skate boarded or took public transportation, unless you were one of the few that had a car...
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,192
13,339
Portland, OR
I didn't get my license until after high school. I either rode my skateboard (THS was only 8 miles) or rode my roadie (DHS was 22 miles each way). But I was also never a senior.
 

kickstand

Turbo Monkey
Sep 18, 2009
3,441
392
Fenton, MI
a few of my friends attended this school years ago, one of the suspended students was a friend's little sister.

pure stupidness.

her apology was a backhanded attempt at saving face.

fire the bitch.
 

DirtMcGirk

<b>WAY</b> Dumber than N8 (to the power of ten alm
Feb 21, 2008
6,379
1
Oz
I have a laundry list of people in this world I truly loathe with all of the loathing a large man can muster, and high school principals are damn near the top of that list. **** shoveling wanna-be dictators. Drag them all by the feet down the street til their goddamn heads pop off and roll down the street, the lies, cover-ups, conspiracy and hypocrisy running crimson and brown all over the pavement.
 

bean

Turbo Monkey
Feb 16, 2004
1,335
0
Boulder
...and they are now talking about making the Bike Parade an annual event for Seniors.
Sounds like a great way to suck the life out of something that was supposed to be unexpected and fun.
 

Matchew

Monkey
May 26, 2006
511
0
NH / Mass (ugh)
I guess I was lucky to have HS administrators that were hellions in school themselves and not completely out of touch with the students. Being sent to the office for general, harmless f-ing around usually led to shooting the **** with the principal and him telling us how much fun he had terrorizing the school in his teen years. My favore time was when he told me about how he caught some pigeons and taped fireworks to their legs. He lit the fuse and released them over the bleachers at a varsity football game, it was messy, people were not happy.

The vise principal was the man too. He would pay out of his own pocket to get 30+ dozen donuts for free doughnut fridays when the nutrition nazis took the soda and candy machines out.
 

skibunny24

Enthusiastic Receiver of Reputation
Jun 16, 2010
3,281
585
Renton, WA
Even in elementary school we were allowed to ride our bikes to school--by ourselves. You just had to have parental permission.
 

Iridemtb

Turbo Monkey
Feb 2, 2007
1,497
-1
:stupid:

My daughter is not like her peers, thank gawd.

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Sounds like the principal should get a flaming bag of &#8220;Senior Surprise&#8221; on her doorstep.
Lol.... If I had a dollar for every time I heard about their kid not being like the others. I am 21 years old. If this is indeed true about your daughter, you are a great parent and have a good kid, but it's rare. I guess it would depend what standards and expectations you have too. My parents were strict growing up, and so were a few of my friends, but a lot of those kids ended up effing up the most.

I guess I was lucky to have HS administrators that were hellions in school themselves and not completely out of touch with the students. Being sent to the office for general, harmless f-ing around usually led to shooting the **** with the principal and him telling us how much fun he had terrorizing the school in his teen years. My favore time was when he told me about how he caught some pigeons and taped fireworks to their legs. He lit the fuse and released them over the bleachers at a varsity football game, it was messy, people were not happy.

The vise principal was the man too. He would pay out of his own pocket to get 30+ dozen donuts for free doughnut fridays when the nutrition nazis took the soda and candy machines out.
Haha that's awesome. My principle always sucked a fat one. So lame.
 

DirtMcGirk

<b>WAY</b> Dumber than N8 (to the power of ten alm
Feb 21, 2008
6,379
1
Oz
My high school principal was a douche. The Dean of Students was even worse. Had a giant velvet Jesus behind him on the wall. Somehow he thought this was intimidating.
 

insanitylevel9

triple nubby
Jan 7, 2011
2,001
5
hopkinton ma
My high school principal was a douche. The Dean of Students was even worse. Had a giant velvet Jesus behind him on the wall. Somehow he thought this was intimidating.
mines got a whole room full of cactus, always wonder if he ever has pushed a student into one. but the jesus thing is just weird as hell
 

DirtMcGirk

<b>WAY</b> Dumber than N8 (to the power of ten alm
Feb 21, 2008
6,379
1
Oz
He ended up going to the Catholic school my ex-wife went to, became the principal.
Was later busted for misallocation of funds and some questionable behavior with a student.
He was a total nut job who seemed to have a hard on for anything I did. As you can imagine I was a wild child, but this guy had a stick up his ass with my name on it. It began to suck when every other day during 2nd period I would get the call to his office.

What was even better was when he tried to tie an underground newspaper to a buddy of mine (both on variances) a week before our graduation. He couldn't grasp that after 4 years of raising hell that I was more interested in beer, sex and ditching class than I was in messing with his little utopian vision of our school. Kept threatening both of us with not being able to graduate and loss of our respective scholarships. He damn near ended his tenure in the desert over that ****.
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
19,838
8,438
Nowhere Man!
My high school was in a rather dangerous area. I didn't ride my bike to school as it was rather dangerous to do so.....