Rotten Apple Awards are handed out periodically (by me) to districts, schools, educators, or policy makers whose actions go beneath the line of duty. Special attention is given to those who abuse or abdicate their authority under the guise of “Zero Tolerance,” or other educationist claptrap.
Please note!
1. A Golden Apple is awarded to Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court Judge Aaron Jaffe for stopping a district from railroading a 9-year-old boy.
2. I know that some of the links below are broken. Rather than try to fix them, I've found that the simplest way to access the information is to copy the link and paste it into a Web search window (e.g., Google, Alta Vista).
Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School, Fort Worth, TX 8" wooden souvenir baseball bat seen in student's car leads to suspension, possible expulsion.
Port Jervis City School District (NY), its principal, Tom Bongiovi, and its superintendent, Joseph DiLorenzo Twelve-year old "good student's" forgotten pocket knife knife leads to his 10 week suspension. Once again, adults fail to use reasonable judgment.
Principal Pete Davis, Madison Elementary School, Skokie, IL Students barred from dressing as pilgrims and Indians at traditional Thanksgiving celebration.
Caney Creek High School, Conroe Texas Student saves girlfriend's life, is expelled from school, faces felony charges.
Cherry
Creek School District, Falcon Creek Middle School, Colorado Teacher
Placed On Leave For Showing 9/11 Video To School Kids
Park Ridge Elementary School, Nampa, Idaho Student threatened with suspension for wearing patriotic t-shirt depicting an armed American soldier.
Middlebury Union High School, Vermont School holds "secret" anti-war rally, shows "Zero Tolerance" for parents seeking information about it.
Sarasota Florida Public Schools, Burns Middle School A cabal of "mis-educators" conspires to kick an innocent student out of school.
Fred A.
Anderson Elementary School Campus sponsors 'Camouflage Day, ' (kicks
out 4th-grader
for accidental possession of a gun shell)
Sue
Stokes, Headteacher, Sundon Lower School, Bedforshire, U.K. Parents barred from bringing cameras to children’s
holiday play--fears of “child pornography.”
Superintendent
Jack Parish, Union Grove Public Schools, Union Grove GA A high school student is suspended for two days for
the heinous act of kissing his girlfriend on the …(wait for it)…forehead!
Pensacola High School, Pensacola Public Schools An honor student finds a plastic baggie containing prescription and non-prescription medicine and gets expelled for it.
Susan
Hahn, Principal, Williams Elementary School, Wilmington NC Hahn reprimands one of her
teachers for explaining the word “niggardly” to her students.
Pat
Samarge, Principal, Franklin Elementary School, Santa Monica, California “Tag” is banned as a threat
to children’s safety and self-esteem! Does a lengthy vacation not seem in order
for Ms. Samarge?
Darci Mickle,
Principal, Dry Creek Elementary School, Centennial, Colorado Please pay special attention
to this one! Mickle believes that 4th graders playing “soldiers and
aliens” and pointing fingers at each other deserve to be suspended from school
without a warning. To do otherwise, she opines, would be “tolerance,” not “zero
tolerance.” We
ought to have no tolerance whatsoever for such nonsense.
L.D.
Bell High School, Hurst, Texas
The
School Administrators and Legislature of the State of Virginia
Supt.
Larry Morris, Crosbyton High School, Lubbock, Texas (Special Award for
Distinguished
Malfeasance Regarding to the Bill of Rights)
Connolly Middle School, Tempe Arizona
Five Forks Middle School, Gwinnett Co. GA
Jeff Boyer, Principal, North Jefferson Intermediate School, MO
Michael Morris,
Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Oldsmar
Elementary School, Tampa, Florida
Loudoun
County Public Schools, Virgina
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