Of SCHOOL, kids!
Hey, look on the bright side: There is always the Army!
"Schools balk at disclosing offenses; Say it could hurt college applicants" by Linda K. Wertheimer/Boston Globe November 17, 2007
High schools across the country are resisting demands from hundreds of colleges to disclose students' criminal and disciplinary records on applications, worried that minor offenses could stigmatize applicants as troublemakers and keep them from being accepted.
While some colleges have asked about student conduct for decades, hundreds are now seeking the information through the common application accepted by 315 schools. For the first time last year, the form added questions for students and guidance counselors about whether applicants have ever been punished for academic or behavioral misconduct that led to probation, suspension, removal, dismissal, or expulsion. It also asks whether they have been convicted of a crime.
I thought education was the way out of these problems?
Why you yanking up the ladder, shitters? Need Army fodder, huh?
We see it all as clear as day out here, fascistas!
You ain't fooling anybody but yourselves. You are going to lose!
Boston Latin School leaves disciplinary questions blank on the application, but will answer them if college officials inquire directly.
Many colleges criticize high schools for avoiding the questions, saying they need to know as much as possible about students' academic records and behavior amid heightened concern over campus safety following last spring's shooting rampage at Virginia Tech.
Marlyn McGrath, director of admissions at Harvard College, which uses the common application:
"It should be a different landscape for [high] schools. They have been reminded that they might be considered responsible."
For what? Because a graduate later commits a crime on the college campus?
Sig Heil, bitch!
In April, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech, underscoring for some college administrators the need to know about high school students' troubled pasts. High school counselors said they had advised Cho, who had a history of emotional problems, not to apply to a college like Virginia Tech because he would not function well in a large setting, information that many college officials believe should have been shared as Cho applied to schools.
Oooooooh, and CUI BONO, readers?
The fascista police state!
Never mind that Cho was programmed with mind control by the CIA!
What, you never heard of Operation Bluebird?
College admissions officers say high schools should trust that disciplinary records will be used as just one piece of information to evaluate whether applicants would thrive on campus. And even some high school counselors say students could actually help their chances with a college if they can show how they grew after dealing with a disciplinary problem.
Look at this garbage.
Admit something, and then they hold it over you like a sword of Damocles.
This is such bullshit, too, when the fucking governing globalists are accountable to nothing and no one.
You know, the shitholes who are running this government!
Colleges will not hold a minor transgression, such as smoking in the bathroom or skipping class, against an applicant, but would likely reject someone with a major offense such as academic dishonesty or criminal behavior.
So how does an asshole like that get to become president, anyway?
Kevin Kelly, director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which like BU pushes students, but not high schools, to answer the questions if they are left unanswered, said colleges primarily want openness:
"I wish everybody would share everything."
You feel the same way about this shithole government, too, or just toward the schools?
Pomona College, a highly selective private college outside of Los Angeles, takes one of the toughest stances: It stops considering a student if a high school leaves questions blank about behavior and then refuses to provide the information when Pomona asks directly.
College officials said they get the most cooperation from private schools, particularly boarding schools that face the same concerns as colleges about students' ability to live among their peers. Officials at Milton Academy and Concord Academy said they have long advised students that disciplinary actions become part of their records and college applications.
Peter Jennings, Concord's director of college counseling, said students can even enhance their application if they can show in writing how they grew after getting into trouble:
"If anything, it gives the colleges a sense of who the kids are, and how they react to a situation."
How many troublemakers go to college, anyway?
Oh, that's right, they are looking for the deranged kids, right?
Can mandatory mental health screenings by government officials be very far behind, kids?
The Plan To Psychologically Test Every Child
Some counselors from high schools that do provide disciplinary information said they also see the exercise as a way to teach students that they face consequences for bad behavior.
Can you salute with a Sig Heil, please, kids?!
And where are the consequences for our esteemed, mass-murdering, lying, law-breaking war criminal George W. Bush?
This society FUCKING STINKS!
To comply with Massachusetts rules, counselors should ask parents or students to sign a form saying the school can release all records to colleges, said Edward Lenox, of the law firm of Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, which represents more than 150 school systems in Massachusetts.
Yeah, sign over your rights!
Lenox said the firm advises schools to answer the disciplinary questions:
"Colleges may well conclude that it's left blank because there is some incriminating information regarding the student."
Your papers, please!
Framingham High School leaves such questions blank because of its fears students will be unfairly judged.
Richard Walcek, the school's head guidance counselor, said it's likely that debate about the topic could lead to a change:
"It is in the public discourse right now. It is confronting all of us."
Yup! That's how we are being moved to a fascist state!
A half dozen college-bound seniors at Framingham High School had mixed views. Some sided with their school's decision not to reveal misconduct.
Rich Tsai, 17: "It's unnecessary. The question is there to create a bias."
Others thought counselors should answer the questions partly to protect others in college.
Julie Moran, 17: "It helps my chances because I haven't been in trouble. I don't want to be in a college with people who've brought knives and guns to school."
Are those the kids going to college, you stoo-pid little whore?
Make sure you Sig Heil, you dumb little bitch!
And in fact, if some students had been armed at the campus, they could have taken Cho down instead of the cops letting him roam free for two hours!
And how come all the gun violence happens in places with the strictest gun-control, while crime is low in the places with right-to-carry laws?
And what if a mistake gets on a kids record, or the wrong name or file is sent?
The questions are all rhetorical, kiddies, so don't bust a brain cell trying to think.
I'm glad I'm an old man now! I feel bad for the kids today.
I would NEVER have wanted to grow up under this type of build-a-camp-up-your-ass, fascism!
I feel so bad for theses kids.
They are going to get royally fucked by this shit society, and they don't even know it.
Who can blame them for smokin' the weed and playing the video games?
