The Hazelwood standard is, by most reasonable revi...

2007-03-26T08:46:00.000-05:00

The Hazelwood standard is, by most reasonable review, pretty easy for administrators to beat. Almost anything, in this post-Columbine and post-9/11 world, can be considered a threat to student safety, security or well-being. So much for civil rights, huh?

That being said, the entire Hazelwood standard, and most enforcement therefrom, rests on whether the school district had written, uniformly-enforced policies in place when the incident occured.

You can't just "make it up as you go."

That aspect of the controversy has not been reported. Frankly, it's the single-most important. If they had a policy in place, and it had been uniformly enforced, they can unfortunately probably procede as they did. Absent that policy, they're on thin ice.

I have always thought they wanted to get rid of this teacher anyway, and they're using this as an excuse.

And, on another note, is it time for Henry to retire yet? I appreciate his narrow Constitutional views, and I learn from them.

I learn how far some people stretch the Constitution with little or no flexibility or time-tested common sense.

But Henry, well...it's time for him to go off in a corner and drool. Way past time.

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