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...borrow from Hamlet, something is rotten in the state of Israel...
That is, something is rotten in the state of Israel if there is truth to the Goldstone Report...
Kristin Norton took D draw by beating out Franzi Steinhardt of Illinois State University (7-5, 6-4), Michala Jensen of the University of Colorado at Boulder (5-1, ret.), and Pavlina Smatova of the University of Oregon...
Zero-tolerance policies for violent, drug-related or otherwise unacceptable behavior grew out of federal mandates for education-funding in the early 1990s. The horrific slaughter at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, reinforced the rigid policies. In Texas, according to a state legislative study, some 144,000 students were sent to DAEP or juvenile-justice alternative education facilities in 2007; 25% of them had disabilities, and minorities made up 65% of the DAEP students and 73% of the juvenile-justice students. Violations ranged from sharing illegal substances or bringing weapons to school to engaging...
...commits a crime off school grounds, he gets due process," Hink says. "If he commits a crime on school grounds, he doesn't get due process." The harshness of the procedures was evident in testimony to the Texas state legislature. In addition to Amy Deschenes, legislators also heard from a 10-year-old student who, urged by his friends, set off a school fire alarm: as part of his punishment, he had a mugshot taken at the juvenile-justice center. (See pictures of relics from the 1999 Columbine massacre...