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Gun Control: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness

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Viscous Obama12/18/2012 8:34:29 pm PST

re: #125 stabby

Yeah, I decided to revisit the story. It’s worse than I remember. It was actually at a basketball game.

Friends and supporters of the Parkland High School student who dashed nearly naked through a crowded gymnasium last month tried in vain Tuesday to quiz school leaders on why the streaker was forced to transfer.

Parent Roxane Guzie, whose son Tony attends Parkland, said other students have committed assault or theft and been allowed to stay in school.

Parkland officials did not give a direct answer to the question. Superintendent Louise Donohue cited rules that bar school personnel from discussing student disciplinary matters.

“Fuzzy” has said he met with the superintendent earlier this month, and she told him he would be expelled if he did not commute to a private school in Weissport [that’s 25 miles away, btw] for at least the remainder of the school year.

Educare, the company that runs that school, touts itself online as a provider of “therapeutically sound alternative educational placement for students who have difficulty functioning in the regular educational environment.”

Yeah, fuck these people.

Even as this was happening, the school was protecting a star football player from a violent criminal charge. He ended up going to Penn State on an athletic scholarship but got expelled from the college.