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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Massachusetts Honor Student punished by School District for doing the right thing, then School District attorney misstates the actual facts to the Court...

Suspended and punished for doing the right thing...
Attorney Wendy Murphy for Suspended Teen Erin Cox accuses the North Andover School District's attorney, Geoffrey Bok of lying to the court:
Murphy said the school district compounded its own injustice toward a kid when its attorney, Geoffrey Bok, said in court that Cox was arrested at the party. She was not. 
“That a school would then lie to a judge in a court of law is an outrage and shows the length some school officials will go to to retaliate against a family that dares to challenge an irrational zero tolerance policy,” Murphy said in a statement.
Attorney Geoffrey Bok
 This is terrible public policy.  You do not punish people who do the right thing.  You especially do not then lie about it to cover the School District's terrible public policy.  

4 comments:

  1. We are talking about the People's Republic, after all.

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  2. And even worse, the head of MADD is supporting the school.

    Not because of what they did, but because of why they did it. She thinks zero tolerance policies are the bees knees the stupid cow.
    They're getting some push back on the MADD blog though.

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  3. No good deed goes unpunished. This is what a totalitarian state looks like. MADD just lost all credibility at this point.

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  4. What's even worse is the chilling message that if you help a friend out and you go to the same school you will be punished for something. This type of behavior on the part of school officials is what I call steamroller syndrome. They know they fucked up, but it's too late now to admit it, so they will steamroll this thing all the way through because not one of these dumb motherfuckers is smart enough to stand up and say, "Sorry, our bad." and end it right there and make it right with the people involved.

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