Sorry to just get back. Great post and I understand where you're coming from. In the big picture, him getting handed a high school diploma not on stage isn't a big deal and it won't bring Austin back. My thing is at some point we as a society have to stop accommodating this kind of behavior because people are scared of the blow back. We will fear the blow back until its our kid. **** these degenerates, and that's exactly how the public should treat that behavior. We're only emboldening these clowns that know all they have to do is scream racism and become millionaires. George Floyd might be the worst thing to happen to black people in this country since Africans sold their own people.AustinCountyAg said:I'm not defending the murder at all. My point is in education with cut and dry rules it sometimes screws over the AG barn type of kids if the rules were "get caught with a knife=expelled". You cant put that in writing for instances when a kid making an honest mistake. And with the way mommy's and daddy's complain so much with discpline these days thats how it is done.ShaggySLC said:Apparently a lot of people. Shameful they don't think like you right? People are starting to care a lot about white people getting targeted and then shaming the white person after they've been murdered while doing a fundraiser tour. Honestly you're so wrong its insulting.AustinCountyAg said:the problem with this is what about if Earl or Jim Bob gets caught with a pocket knife in their 13MWZ's out at the Ag barn they forgot was in their pocket? Expel them as well for an honest mistake? It's not as cut and dry as many want to make it out to be.Old Sarge said:Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:The district cannot talk about another student with anyone. "It's the law".oh no said:
with the rumors flying that the cold blooded murderer was actually going to be able to walk at the ceremony, the deceased kid's parents just wanted to ask for that not to happen and they couldn't even get a response or a meeting and ultimately got a sheety response.
It was against the law for that little murderous piece of human excrement to kill Austin Metcalf by stabbing him at a FISD sanctioned event, on public school grounds, but that didn't stop him, did it?
Should have been expelled, immediately, for nothing more than carrying the weapon to the event.
Expelled, thus no diploma.
In the long run who gives a flying F if he gets a diploma or not? It will serve him no use in prison.
Edit: The Ags at the ag barn aren't out looking to kill someone over getting told to leave, so the honest mistake will be looked at as an honest mistake. Take a knife out when you're clearly under the wrong teams tent in your scenario would be those Ags going and sitting the sips Ag barn and pull a knife and stab someone when something gets said, which it always would. Quit defending a murderer.
I would have ZERO problems with Melo being expelled and not getting a degree. But I also see the other side where the district just gives him his diploma if he has the credits so they can just move along and not deal with the headaches of additional lawsuits from his black panther advocates.
I promise you I'm 100% hardass conservative, but I also see the other side from the districts point of not wanting to die on the hill of expelling him if he has the credits already to get a diploma. They are already dealing with a crap ton of problems with this murder. I understand them not wanting to have to deal with even more if they dont have to.
Again, it's a freaking high school diploma that is basically worthless in todays society. It's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. If he wants to hang it up in his jail cell then more power to him.