Sanford: Quit Diddling Your Students
Sex between teachers and their 16- and 17-year-old students will now be a felony in South Carolina. Governor Mark Sanford is expected to sign a bill this week that will send school employees to prison for up to five years if they can’t keep their lecherous hands to themselves.
For all you pervs looking for a loophole, this new law includes teachers, substitutes, bus drivers, counselors, and coaches — basically anyone in a position of authority.
And if you’re thinking 18 is legal, think again, Chester. Teachers who have sex with 18-year-old students could pay a $500 fine and do 30 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge.
Close Call for Mauldin Middle School Kids
Yesterday students from the Mauldin Middle School (located in Simpsonville for some reason) were saved by a good Samaritan who alerted the driver of the bus the children were on to a fire that was breaking out around one of the rear tires. The driver evacuated the bus and no one was hurt in the incident.
From The Charlotte Observer:
A bus fire that briefly closed Interstate 85 this morning in Gastonia also destroyed the musical instruments of members of an S.C. middle school orchestra.
There were no injuries among the 23 children, who are students at Mauldin Middle School in Simpsonville, S.C., according to police and emergency officials. The children and their five chaperones were on their way to Carowinds amusement park to perform today. They were in one of at least six buses headed to the park.
Shortly before 8 a.m., a motorist passing the bus signaled to the driver that something was wrong. The driver pulled over and got everybody out and moved away from the bus. A fire appeared to have started around a rear tire and quickly engulfed the back of the bus.
The students’ instruments were destroyed in the fire. We’ll let you know if there is a way to donate to the school to help replace them.
Was Lawson Boling Planning a School Shooting?
That’s the implication but so far the story sounds less than solid. Lawson Boling is reported to have been living out of his car while attending classes at the Brasier Campus of Greenville Tech, and it is legal to have guns on your property. Police also admit that the guns were “buried” under piles of clothing in the trunk. There’’s no mention of ammo caches or Boling carrying the guns. That doesn’t sound like he was planning a massacre.
WSPA says it was Boling’s mother that called the campus to warn them. If it’s true that Boling was living out of his car (and thus on the outs with his mother) it sounds more like a spiteful false report than a thwarted school massacre.
But of course that’s if Boling is being truthful about living in his car. He might not be, or he may have been put out of his family home for good reason. However if I lived in my car there would be a few guns in it, and I’d expect that as long as they stayed locked up in the trunk I would be breaking no laws as it is legal to transport firearms in one’s vehicle and keep them in your residence in South Carolina.
We don’t have all the facts on this, partly because managing editors of news operations like WYFF are busier slapping C&D letters on bloggers than ensuring reporters follow up on stories that don’t pass the smell test. This seems like either way it’s a story worth more than a few paragraphs on a website, but I guess WYFF.com managing editor Carla Field has bigger fish to fry then making sure a person really did attempt to kill a bunch of people before announcing the supposed incident, sans context, on the guy’s 24th birthday. Just throwing it out there, if you were an angry weirdo who wanted to get back at someone you knew had a gun or two in their trunk, when would the best time to do it be?
Maybe on his birthday, which he’s not spending with his dear old mother? Doesn’t this story seem odd to anyone?
But I’ll leave it to the audience until more information comes to light. I’m thinking this seems fishy, but we’ll see when he’s arraigned.
Greer Students Busted Tampering with Classmates Drink
What’s wrong with kids today? I say throw the book at them!
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Six Upstate high school students face expulsion and criminal charges for contaminating another student’s drink it happened at Blue Ridge High School in Greer.
According to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office the students put something non-drug related, and non-life threatening in a fellow 15-year-old students drink when she temporarily left the class.
Deputies said the drink is being tested for urine and saliva.
The Greenville County School District said school administrators were made aware of the incident around noon yesterday.
Their investigation resulted in six students being referred to law enforcement and suspended pending an expulsion hearing.
And these little bastards deserve it. WYFF has a more graphic report:
A source close to the investigation said that it happened during a second period biology class at the high school Thursday morning while a substitute was filling in for the teacher.
The source said a 15-year-old student left class to take a test. While she was gone, a soft drink was taken out of her bookbag and spit, urine and pubic hairs were pit in the drink, according to the source.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s office has confirmed they are investigating the alleged incident, and that the details the source has given us are accurate. A spokesman said that the school resource officer at the high school was notified about the incident around 2 p.m. Thursday. The spokesman said if the allegations are true, the six students could face a felony charge of malicious tampering.
The sheriff’s office did not comment further on the details of the alleged incident but News 4’s source on this investigation said that the girl drank from the bottle when she returned to class.
They basically poisoned her for kicks. I hope that while the police are doing their investigation the parents are taking appropriate steps to deal with them. And by appropriate steps I mean beating them.
Spartanburg County Alternative School Student Assaults Teacher During “Temper Tantrum”
The student is 17-years-old so I frankly think calling this attack a temper tantrum is a bit off base. Sounds like this “kid” needs to do a few months in the county lock-up to me. Of course, that doesn’t fit in with the teaching philosophy of the Spartanburg County Alternative School who describe themselves thusly:
We are a diverse and goal oriented group of students and faculty dedicated to education, character development and raising social consciousness. Our vision is to provide an alternative school setting where a diverse student population has an opportunity to successfully integrate back into the home school environment, GED/adult education, or into the workforce. Spartanburg County Alternative School is where
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Uh-huh. If I’m reading this correctly, they’re preparing this “diverse” population for a life of living at home, getting a GED and maybe picking up 2nd shift at Walgreens. Shoot for the stars.
How does this goal oriented, diverse stable of do-gooders work to help their diverse, socially conscious stable of needy students achieve their lofty goal of perpetual impoverishment? With this simple yet surprisingly convoluted “philosophy” that sounds suspiciously like someone wrote it while reading bumper stickers in the Whole Foods parking lot:
It is our fundamental belief that all students are of value, and they need guidance to find and develop the positive qualities they possess. We understand that many will have histories of failure in the traditional educational setting. Therefore, it is our goal to strive to find creative approaches which will enable them to experience academic success that will continue with them throughout their lives. We are dedicated to offering a non-judgmental environment that will provide structured learning that is not rigid.
How’s that non-judgmental environment working out anyway?
According to a release from Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office representative Tony Ivey, deputies were called to the school on Lincoln School Road at 1:35 p.m. The call was in reference to an unruly student in the school’s gym, Ivey said.
When officers arrived, they witnessed a faculty member trying to escort Marcel Allen Kline, 17, to another part of the school, the release said.
The officer said he heard Kline shout a racial slur at the faculty member then kick a door, shattering the glass, according to the incident report. The officer said Kline then repeatedly kicked the teacher, the report said.
Kline was taken into custody and charged with one count each of assault and battery on a school employee by a student, disturbing school and malicious injury to real property.
He was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Center where he is being held on a $2,500 bond.
I’m shocked, shocked, that teenagers would be so disrespectful to a bunch of mincing hippies who spent their time telling him to lower his expectations and not accept “rigid” and “judgmental” actions and attitudes from others. Why, it’s almost as if troubled teens need more structure and discipline rather than less.
But hey, I’m not the expert here. I’ll let the results of Spartanburg County Alternative School speak for themselves.
The faculty page lists three different teachers for something called “character education.” Is it safe to assume Kline wasn’t doing well in those classes?