GIBERY

anoncentral:

According to the Daily Herald and MSN, John Dryden – a social studies teacher at Batavia High School in Batavia, Illinois – is facing disciplinary measures because he advised his students to think about their Constitutional right against filling out a school survey regarding their behavior, including a student’s personal use of tobacco products, drugs, and alcohol.

Because Dryden advised his students to consider their personal rights against filling out a self-incriminatory survey, he is now in the process of being disciplined by the Batavia High School’s school board.

The case involves a school survey which was given to Dryden on April 15. Dryden read the survey to his students before handing it out to them and told his students to think about their rights after he noticed that each student’s name was printed on his or her survey. Naturally, the students’ responses were not anonymous.

Dryden has said that the issue is about school officials possibly considering the survey responses as a form of the students’ self-incrimination since they are being asked to reveal their person information on the topics questioned on the survey.

This is the first year the school has given this survey. The news reports regarding the incident state that the school refused to provide media sources with copies of the survey.

At this time, the school claims that Dryden is not going to lose his job but will be given a letter of remediation – which will go in his file. The strongly-worded letter says that Dryden acted with improper conduct that could have led to his being fired.

We have spoken to our kids about these types of intrusive school surveys and students personal rights many times. I know from past experience, my kids would not fill out the survey and have the school call me.

I think the teacher did the right thing.

starkatto:

Okay I’m going to try to be unbiased about this, or at least as much as i can be.

Judges are ruling that certain evidence cannot be used against Trayvon Martin’s team in the George Zimmerman case, because it would create a “negative image of him to the jury.” Um, isn’t the Justice system…

starkatto:

If anyone is going to tell me that I’m racist or whatever because of my post about Trayvon Martin, you are making a huge fucking mistake. My attachment to my feelings is very personal. I saw my dad get stuffed into a police car because some jackass strung out on weed elbowed his car and broke the…

The reason we have trials is to present all of the truth, not just the convenient parts for the prosecution or the defense.  

If we can not trust a jury with all of the truth, we can not trust ourselves to deliver true justice.