School Resource Officer Causes “Severe Brain Hemorrhage” By Tasing Student

Acosta says the deputy officer was never in harm, and that the defendants allowed him to work at Cedar Creek High School even after he Tasered another student a year ago. That history created a “foreseeable danger” that led to N.N.’s injuries, she says. 

According to RT:

A high school student suffered a brain injury and remains in a medically-induced coma after a Texas sheriff’s deputy tasered him without cause following a skirmish in a school hallway, the boy’s mother claims in court.

Maria Acosta has sued Bastrop County, its school district and Randy McMillan, a Bastrop County sheriff’s officer and school resource officer, according to Courthouse News.

Noe Nino de Rivera, Acosta’s son, suffered a “severe brain hemorrhage” when McMillan Tasered him after the boy, known as N.N., had intervened to halt a fight between two females at Cedar Creek High School on Wednesday, November 20, Acosta claims in a federal lawsuit.

"I'm called to the school and they say you have to get to the hospital," Acosta told KXAN last week. "(They said) your son is alive. I say, 'what do you mean he's alive?'" 

School resource officers... the most outright useless position a police officer can be assigned to.  So in order to make their days a bit more interesting, they are required to taser anyone that they deem even the slightest threat... 

Sixth Graders Pigeonholed into Political Dichotomy

According to StoryLeak:

Parents of a sixth grade student at the Milam Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi were shocked when their daughter brought home a political beliefs worksheet that teachers told students to fill out.

The in-class assignment entitled “Are you a Democrat or Republican?” was posted to the “Stop Common Core in Mississippi” Facebook page with a message alleging that the young female student was told not to talk about or take the assignment outside of class, although some parents refute the claim.

Regardless, the assignment, written for 11-year-old children, asks students what their beliefs are on such issues as abortion, gun control and gay marriage, before having them tally up their “D” and “R” answers to determine which establishment party they belong to.

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Many parents not only found the assignment highly inappropriate, but question if the assignment was an attempt to gauge families’ political affiliations given the fact that many sixth graders would likely repeat what they heard at home, not having a true personal understanding of the listed topics. 

I can see the other side of this argument in helping students realize their political affiliation early in life.  Helping them figure out where their beliefs stand in comparison to others.  What bothers me is... where are the Libertarian choices, where are the Green choices?  

Also why do schools need to know this about students, seems kind of like a manner in which we can start pigeonholing a whole slew of political beliefs in to a dichotomy of this or that.  

"You are either one or the other and we need to know which one"

I do not want to send my daughter to public school, I will not. But to a certain degree I want to just to get physical copies of crap like this that I can then post online to share with the world as well.  

Cut Your Hair or Face Expulsion

According to RT:

One day after a 12-year-old African American girl made national news for saying she was threatened with expulsion over her hairstyle, the school is backing down.

On Monday, Vanessa VanDyke said that Faith Christian Academy, a private school in Orlando, Florida, had given her a choice: either cut/style her large, naturally curly hair within a week or leave the school altogether.

I've worn trench coats and capes to school.  My hair has been every color under the rainbow and styled to do all sorts of absurd things.  The times teachers told me to remove my cape or snidely made comments about my hair, I made even more absurd claims back to them and pulled out school guideline books right in front of them to show them there was no mention of capes, no mention of hair colors... 

Teachers and administrators think they can make rules as they go.  They think they can control your kid and force them to submit to their commands.  If you allow your kids to be subjugated they will be, if you teach them to stick up for themselves it will spread through the internet like wildfire and your rights will be upheld.  Teach your kids yourself, don't think that schools are actually teaching them anything.  They are indoctrinating them, not educating them.    

School Threatens Students with Racial Discrimination on their Permanent Record

According to InfoWars:

The headmistress at a primary school in a small town in England tried to order parents to send their children to a Nov. 27 workshop focused on Islam or else have the kids permanently labeled as racists for the rest of their academic careers.

On Wednesday, parents of children aged 8 to 11 received the stark warning in the form of a letter from Lynn Small, the headmistress at Littleton Green Community School in Huntington, Staffordshire — just over 20 miles from Birmingham.

The letter describes the field trip as part of a “statutory requirement” for kids “to learn about different cultures.”

“The workshop is at Staffordshire University and will give your child the opportunity to explore other religions,” Small pedantically explains. “Children will be looking at religious artifacts, similar to those that would be on display in a museum. They will not be partaking in any religious practices.”

The race to become the most politically correct location on earth is out of control...

School kids unearth loaded gun during “Archaeology Day”

According to ABlogAboutHistory:

A group of 5th-graders in Massachusetts unearthed a loaded gun during a school “Archaeology Day” trip.

At first Wendy Robinson thought it was a joke when one of the fifth-graders participating in this year’s archaeology day yelled “gun” while digging in the dirt near Main Street. She soon saw with her own eyes that three boys wielding garden trowels had unearthed a loaded Smith & Wesson model 10 .38-caliber revolver.

She instructed the children to back away and called the police, who determined the firearm was old and not likely a hazard.

I'm surprised they weren't all expelled just for having found a gun in the dirt.  Considering kids are getting expelled for biting their pop tart in to the shape of a gun, it would not have surprised me if the three boys were dealt with in a similar manner.  

School Teacher Feeds Students Semen-Laced Cookies

(Sure does look like a perv)

According to Gawker:

A Los Angeles school teacher has pleaded guilty to a series of heinous abuses against his students, including blindfolding them and feeding them cookies laced with his semen.

Elementary school teacher Mark Berndt pleaded guilty on Friday to abusing 30 students at Miramonte Elementary School for the last two decades. Berndt was caught after a photo technician reported dozens of blindfolded third graders in photographs he was developing for Berndt. When investigators searched Berndt's classroom, they found semen on a spoon in a trash bin. Berndt had been feeding his students cookies laced with his own semen.

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The guilty plea calls for Berndt to spend 25 years in prison.

"He's going to jail essentially for the rest of his life," the attorney for the students and their parents told the Associated Press. "You can't ask for more than that."

The school district had received reports of Berndt abusing students since the 1990s, but did not act until the the police intervened.

This is an absolutely spot on reason why I do not trust schools.  They got multiple complaints and did nothing about it, for 20 years!  Think about how many students went through his classroom in 20 years.  Absolutely horrifying what school districts will allow teachers to get away with.  

Middle School Student Uppercut By Teacher Over Favorite Football Teams

"The last person's voice I heard was some girl saying that I should call my mom, and then he like hit me, and I blacked out," Reginald said in an exclusive interview with 12 News Sunday.

According to 12News:

Reginald, a 7th grader, says Friday afternoon he stopped in the hallway to chat with an assistant teacher from his math class. He says he cracked a joke about the teacher's favorite football team.

"All of a sudden he just hit me, in my shoulder... and I looked at him like 'what the heck?'"

Standing 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 80 pounds, Reginald says he then pushed the teacher's shoulder. That's when he claims the teacher blindsided him with a punch to the face that knocked him out. He says he woke up a few seconds later.

"The left side of my face was numb... my lip hurt... my head was hurt, like it had been shaken."

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"(The principal) said Reginald was punched, in the shoulder, and then hit two times and uppercut, and then slid across the floor," Adrianne said. "It weighed heavy on my heart, because I've never put my hands on my son."

Adrianne says the teacher was escorted off the premises and fired on the spot, but before that, Reginald says the teacher said something to him.

"He said 'I can't apologize for what I did, I was just having a bad day and I just snapped.'"

That is out of this world.  I do not like sports, I have no favorite teams, but I know as a matter of fact from listening to co-workers argue over football that making fun of another person's team of choice is part of being a sports fan.  

Any adult who claims to have been having a bad day as an excuse to punch a child deserves to be locked up.  Sadly no charges have been pressed yet against this pathetic excuse for a human being. Try anger management, try meditation, try apologizing.  A bad day is no excuse for massively incorrect actions.  

Coachella Valley High School's ‘Arab’ Mascot

According to CBS: 

Attend a Coachella Valley High School football game, and you may be surprised to see belly dancers performing at halftime shows.
Spectators also will find a snarling, black-bearded mascot wearing a headscarf urging fans to root for the team.

The mascot in this Southern California desert town east of Palm Springs that has existed for nearly a century has now drawn the ire of an anti-discrimination group that deems the caricature offensive and stereotypical.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee recently sent a letter to officials at the Coachella Valley Unified School District asking them to get rid of the mascot, according to the Desert Sun.

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The Arab mascot has been around since the 1920s and was chosen to recognize the area’s reliance on date farming, traditionally a Middle Eastern crop. The nearby community of Mecca also pays homage to the Middle East.

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“There was no intention to demean Arabs or be discriminatory in any way,” said David Hinkle, a 1961 graduate. “I don’t think it’s right to decide now that you can’t do that anymore. It is political correctness run amok, I would say.”

No more Redskins ... No More Arab Mascots... 

Maybe American's needs to grow thicker skin, aren't there more pressing matters in our society than sports team names and mascots?  

I guess to certain people endless war, sky rocketing poverty and the coming economic collapse pale in comparison to schools and sports teams being politically correct.  

Police Arrest Teen Who Refused to Wake up for School.

According to OnlineAthens:

A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday morning after he fought with his mother over his refusal to get out of bed for school, Athens-Clarke police said.

The boy’s mother told police that her son had been tardy more than 30 times already this year because of his reluctance to get out of bed.

When he would not get up Monday morning, the mother said she threatened to throw water on him, and he responded by saying that if she did he would tear up their home, according to police.

The woman did splash water on him, at which time the boy punched a window and threw household items, including a large vase and a wall mirror, which shattered, police said.

An official with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice told officers to charge with boy as an unruly child and with criminal damage to property, police said, and also to bring him to the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse so that he could be held for a detention hearing that afternoon in juvenile court.

This is what state sponsored propaganda centers do to families.  Tear them apart for absolutely absurd reasons.  Mothers calling the police on sons because they don't want to be indoctrinated in to a system that is obviously not put in place with their best interests in mind.  

Let the kid sleep, he'll learn more at home than he will in school anyways.  Let him find his own passions, home school him, get him to enroll in online classes.  Not everyone learns the same way.  Whatever you do don't call the police on him, try to become a better parent and take responsibility for your own child's actions.    

Teacher Fired For Forcing Students to Share Needles.

According to CBS:

A Harnett County teacher has been fired after school officials said she allowed biology students to prick themselves with lancing needles as part of an experiment and reusing the needles with other students.

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Harmon-Lewis says McMillan provided the lancets for each lab group. She said after the students used the needles, they used alcohol swabs and saved the needles for the next class to use.

... Seriously?  Talk about being cheap.  Oh and incredibly stupid.  

“The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”

According to InfoWars:

A parent of a ten year old was shocked to discover a grammar and writing test paper that their child brought home from school reads more like document from an authoritarian country such as China.

The parent sent a portion of the test paper to Infowars, revealing that it contains sentences such as “The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.”

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Upon further investigation it appears that the paper is part of a setproduced by Pearson Education, a global corporation that provides education publishing and assessment services to schools in the US and the rest of the world. Pearson is the world’s largest for-profit education business.

Armed Teachers in Oregon

According to StoryLeak:

A ban on armed school employees was lifted by the St. Helens school board in Oregon this week, following a 4-to-1 vote during a district meeting Wednesday.

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Although there has been a 49 percent drop in gun homicide since 1993, multiple states including Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, South Dakota and Texas have taken their children’s protection into their own hands by introducing or passing legislation to arm teachers.

It seems guns in schools is the theme of the week, month ... year.  This article positions the idea in a positive manner claiming that private citizens are typically better suited to handle fire arms than police officers, which I agree with.  I don't agree on is that idea that my daughter should go to a school where her teacher feels the need to be armed.  

Homeschool.

11 Year Old Arrested After Bringing A Gun And 400 Rounds Of Ammo To School

MOXNEWSd0tC0M

Department of Education Spends Thousands of Dollars on ... Guns?

According to InfoWars:

Since at least 2001, the U.S. Department of Education has been building a massive arsenal of guns purchased through steep discounts orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the U.S. Capitol Police.

The Education Department’s Office of the Inspector General somehow found it necessary to spend over $80,000 on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns in the past seven years for investigations into “fraud, waste or abuse of Department of Education funds.”

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Prior to receiving a firearm, Dept. of Education OIG special agents must complete a training course conducted by the Department of Homeland Security.

WTF does the Dept. of Education need with guns?!

Truancy...
Falling asleep in class...
Failing a test...

It seems governmental department over seeing pretty much everything from schools to fishing are armed to the teeth.  

Seems a little out of hand to me.  I don't even think police should have guns, and here we have random bureaucrats being armed as well?

Police Officer's Gun "GOES OFF" At Elementary School Wounding 3 Children!

Is it any wonder people with even a slightly functioning brain do not want police officers patrolling our nations schools? Or for that matter our streets.  They are a danger to everyone around them.  

MOXNEWSd0tC0M

Do YOU Want A Police Presence In YOUR Children's School?

MOXNEWSd0tC0M

Public School Children Living in Poverty

According to RT:

A new study by the Southern Education Foundation has revealed that the number of low income students enrolled in schools across the United States has surged in recent years to new astronomical numbers.

According to the study, 17 of the 50 states in the country can say that at least half of their students come from households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

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In Mississippi, 71 percent of public schoolchildren placed into the low income category. New Mexico and Louisiana rounded out the top-three states with regards to low income majorities, and the 17 locales listed with as having more than half of their students included states such as Florida and California, with 56 and 54 percent of its public school students, respectively, considered low income.

Taking into account the whole US, the foundation said 48 percent of all public school children came from homes with incomes low enough to earn those students free or reduced lunches. 

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The foundation predicts that within the next few years, “low income students will become a majority of all public school children in the United States.”

Is it any wonder America's public schools are in such disarray?  Of course they are, when half the students that attend them are worried about what they are going to eat for lunch, it makes it hard to focus on learning.  When half the students come from low income neighborhoods the government obviously isn't focusing on their needs.  

There are rich kids to worry about and they are all attending private schools.  There are loaded donors who need subsidies  and bail outs to worry about.  Poor kids being taught at poorly run institutions are the least of our overlords problems.  If this is the level we are at today, I am truly scared to imagine how many American kids will be living in poverty when the SHTF.  

SWAT Team Raids School

According to CBS:

A police SWAT team responded to the north campus of Lyons Township High School in La Grange after an instructor reported — mistakenly — she had possibly heard gunfire.

Police from La Grange and nearby suburbs evacuated the high school as a precaution. But in the end, the response was a practice drill for authorities.

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“There were no reports of holes in any buildings, no injuries, no smell, no odors that would be consistent with gunshots,” La Grange Police Chief Michael Holub said.

The system truly has engrained the fear of God in to students and teachers across the nation.  Someone drops a text book on the floor (only an assumption not what really happened) and a SWAT team clears the school out?!

I understand being on the cautious side of things to keep the kids safe, but I don't know, it seems to me like schools around the country are going a bit far in all of the suspensions and expulsions over gun toys and shirts.  Then we have this paranoid fear that any loud noise may be a gun shot.

Dear God was I lucky when I was in high school that brining a cap gun in to school and shooting it in the cafeteria was just a silly prank that no one even thought about two seconds after it happened.  No cops, no SWAT, no suspension, everyone realized it was a toy and no one freaked out.  

Oh how things have changed in a mere decade.  

American Flag Shirt on Cinco De Mayo

According to RT:

A federal appeals court is considering whether administrators of a school marred by racial tension and gang activity went too far when they sent home students who arrived wearing American flag shirts on a Mexican holiday.

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Administrators said they told the students to hide their clothing because of heightened stress and shouting matches between students on Cinco de Mayo in 2009 at the school, which is located approximately 20 miles from San Jose in central California. The students claim there was no evidence that their clothing had incited any tension and that “American schools cannot logically ban the American flag for any duration or reason.”

Mexican students told KSBW.com that they felt disrespected by the students’ clear decision to coordinate their outfits. “We would never do that on the Fourth of July,” one student said.

“I did nothing wrong,” student Daniel Galli said in 2010. “I’m American and I’m proud to be American, so that’s why I wore it.”

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“Here, the school is saying on this day, in these circumstances, with racism floating around…we’re not going to risk having a blowup here. So one day only let’s defuse this,” Judge Margaret McKeown said. “What’s wrong with this?You have to wait until they duke it out in the courtyard?”

This is a tough one, while I truly would like to say something about public schools trying to subvert traditional American ideals.  I also completely understand the view point of both the Hispanic students and the administration.

In this case I kind of side with the school.  These students were obviously trying to stir something up with their garb, not being patriotic.  While banning wearing an American Flag shirt outright would be insane, asking these kids to have some common decency during a specific ethnic holiday seems completely appropriate to me.  

Teacher Fired for Giving Minors Alcohol & Condoms

According to WSVN:

A South Florida teacher has been fired after she is accused of provided students with alcohol and condoms.

The Miami-Dade School Board terminated Isabel Diaz Almaraz on Wednesday for acting inappropriately with students. "On behalf of the Superintendent, I am requesting that the board enter final order terminating Isabel Diaz Almaraz' employment with the school board," said assistant school board attorney Heather Ward.

Almaraz was a full-time dance teacher at South Miami High School. The district first began to investigate Almaraz because of several complaints from parents.

In the spring of 2012, the district said Almaraz provided students with a hotel suite for an after-prom party. The hotel suite was $1,000 and was paid for with her PayPal account.

I'm not sure what's worse, substitute teachers nodding off on heroin in class or full time teachers offering alcohol and condoms to students.  Now don't get me wrong, the condoms are not the issue here.  Promoting safe sex is okay, but adding in the alcohol and saying "Here get drunk and fuck" is not what I want a teacher telling my daughter when she reaches high school.  

Substitute Teacher Nods Out on Heroin During Class

(Not an actual picture from the scene, just the first picture 

that popped up in Google when I typed "Teacher Sleeping")

According to CBS:

Bellevue Police Sgt. Mike Hudson says it was a first for him after he found a substitute teacher passed out in the front of a high school classroom with 11 students watching.

“Unfortunately, it was a very realistic show and tell where you can preach the message to students, but they got to see live, firsthand the effects of a drug addiction problem,” Hudson said.

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Christopher Chiappetta, 26, who is not an employee of Northgate, was subbing for a high school art class when he took a break close to noon.

When Chiappetta got back to the classroom, he reportedly passed out in front of students.

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Police say it wasn’t until they found four baggies of heroin in Chiapetta’s pocket and marijuana in his car that the substitute confessed to using heroin around 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Public schools, only hiring the best of the best since ... never!

Principal Stops Pledge of Allegiance

According to National Review:

Last week, Principal Pat Jones, worried that by the fact that some of his students didn’t know the federal government had been shut down, announced that his school, Alliance High School in Nebraska, would refrain from reciting the pledge as they did each morning, to remind them of the problems in Washington.

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They only went without the recitation for a day; one woman said her son protested by standing to recite the Pledge anyway.

I give alot of credit to this principal for even attempting for one day to stop reciting "The Pledge".  Along with that thought I question just how much of a dweeb and pathetically propagandized a student must be to stand for the pledge of allegiance out of protest?

The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

According to Mises.org these following selections are taken from Chapter 5 of Ron Paul's new book The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System.

This is why libertarians believe that there should be open entry into the field of education. They do not trust state bureaucrats to act on behalf of parents, especially parents who have a particular view of the best methodology and content for the education of their children. The bureaucrats operate in their own self-interest, which is to expand their power and income.

This raises the issue of government regulation of schools. First, the government requires compulsory attendance. Second, in order to keep control over the content of the curriculum, governments establish rules and regulations governing those schools. Parents are not allowed to send their children to schools that do not meet these qualifications. The qualifications are set very high, so that not many schools can be established to compete against the public school system. This increases the power of the public school system, and the power of the bureaucrats who run the system.

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The goal of academic regulation is to limit the supply of schools that compete against public schools. This is done in the name of guaranteeing the educational quality of the school, thereby protecting the students. Yet the academic performance of the public schools continues to decline, and has done so since the early 1960s. The scores on the SAT and ACT exams continue to fall. The high point was in the early 1960s. So, regulation has not been successful in guaranteeing the quality of education. But it has been quite successful in restricting entry into the field of education.

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The government does not have to burn books in order to persuade the next generation of voters of ideas that favor the government. The government need only screen out books and materials that are hostile to the expansion of the state.

Simple, yet profound.  

A Board of Education on Long Island Silences Autistic Teen

According to Patch.com:

The Northport-East Northport Board of Education cut off a 14-year-old boy from speaking during Monday’s meeting when the teen, who has a form of high-functioning autism, attempted to express what he felt was unfair treatment in his classroom due to his disability.

Christian Ranieri held back tears as he left the room after being shut down just a few sentences into his speech, in which he was asking the board to hear him out after he felt he was unfairly suspended for two days from school. 

The school board president cited privacy laws in his reasoning for halting Ranieri's speech.

The article above goes in to great detail about the reason behind the students suspension and further in to what went on during the Board of Education meeting.  I implore you to read it if you want to understand the entire story.  I am refraining from quoting more of the article because I'd rather allow this blog to be an opinion piece...

Public Education is a disgrace.  It has become a complete failure in regards to actually educating children, history is being re-written and facts are being subjected to revision.  This is all common knowledge if you care to do some research.  However the one thing schools can try harder at is helping build the emotional stability of children regardless of state mandates and federal curriculum's.  

This is a perfect case though of how American schools are not here to help children, they are here to control and develop them in a specific manner dictated by bureaucrats from above. They are definitely not around to make them smarter or care more and absolutely not to allow them to be heard.  This poor kid who spent his entire life attempting to find his voice and over come his autism was shown first hand what public education and its over lords on Boards and Departments, and their minions the Superintendents and Principals, are really here to accomplish.  

The following is the full speech Renieri had prepared for the meeting, but was barred from reading:

My name is Christian Ranieri and I am a 9th Grader at Northport High School. You should know that I have a developmental disability called Autism.I have come a long way in life as I could not talk in the beginning but now I am able to express my message to you in words. When I was 5 I cried a lot and would throw myself on the floor when I got frustrated. I am proud to say that now I can speak clearly and to the best of my ability try to deal with my frustration in words.I feel like the decision made by the person at Northport High School to suspend me for 2 days was discriminatory on the part that I have Autism and the fact that she thought that what had happened was not a result of my Autism. This whole incident happened when I tried self-advocating for myself after my resource room teacher did not implement my IEP and Behavior Intervention Plan. The day before this alleged incident we had a meeting with my mom, my dad, my resource room teacher, the school psychologist, and my assistant principal. At this meeting I told them that my reward system had not been put in place and I had been in school for almost 1 month. Ever since the beginning of High school I have had to self-refer myself to the assistant principal's office because certain teachers would not allow me my accommodated seat on my IEP. In history there have been people who have had to fight for a seat. One that I know of and many of you might know of was named Rosa Parks. At that time, her civil rights did not afford her to sit in the front of a bus. As a result she was arrested for not giving up her seat.In my case my civil rights give me the opportunity to have a special seat because of my developmental disability and yet I find myself having to fight for it. My parents have explained that you are the ones who decide who manages my IEP, my accommodations, and my behavior intervention plan. The person you chose to do this for me did not do her job and has accused me of intimidating her!At the beginning of the school year I was excited to go to High School though my mom and dad were a bit nervous about how I would adjust and whether the staff would know how to handle me and my developmental disability. Every day I have a smile on my face because I am excited for a brand new day. Sometimes I can be hard to handle because my brain thinks differently but that does not mean I should be mistreated and dismissed by my teachers. Last May, I participated in my own meeting to describe what I needed to be a successful student at the High School and get my job done with the skills I have. Since then, the office of Developmental disabilities and its Self- Advocacy association has made me Youth Ambassador and has asked me to be a key note (sic) speaker in Albany at the end of October. It makes me very sad that I have come so far and now will have to talk about how my school does not support my plan to succeed. I have spent so much time outside of the classroom trying to explain my accommodations and my plan instead of in my class learning to pass my regents exams.During the meeting with the person who suspended me, I explained how I tried to talk to the teacher appropriately. I even asked to come outside in the hallway so that I would not disrupt the other students in the classroom. The person who suspended me said she was not aware of that but did not seem to care about what I was saying. She did not seem to care about my IEP or my Behavior Intervention plan and the fact that some teachers were not implementing it. She told me and my parents that at Northport High School what it means to respect adults as my disorder makes it hard for me to understand this I have an intellectual and developmental disability that affects my social thinking. All of this is on my IEP. My parents are always trying to come up with plans for me so that I understand when I should and should not obey adults. Especially, if it can put me in danger. Would all of this be happening to a student with Autism that doesn't speak?I feel that because I had to face many injustices, it is time for my voice to be heard. For example, in middle school one of my teachers did not let me use my netbook computer that is on my IEP for test corrections because he said that if I used it would be considered "cheating" so I spent over 2 days writing down the corrections even though I cannot really write well for a long period of time because of my issues, but if you give me my laptop I can get the job done! I want people to know that I deserve respect as much as they do. Not because I have a disability but because I am a human just like them.After I was suspended I began to cry and my parents decided to go straight to the Superintendent's office to talk about our situation. We were told she was in a meeting and my parents and I said we would wait for it to be over in the hallway. After a little while, of sitting outside in the hallway, I told my Mom that I felt like we were at a Sit In. Since I love history, I know all about Sit Ins and how they were used as a protest method. A few minutes later, a security man came to us and asked us to leave. So we did. That was last Monday. Up until today she has never met with us.I am asking you to investigate my situation and remove the suspension from my record as this suspension might ruin my future and I do not want to be seen as a trouble maker (sic). On Friday, during my resource room, one week after the alleged incident I saw the person who suspended me in the room talking with my teacher. I could not even look at her because I feel very angry about being suspended for self-advocating. How is it fair that I get punished and the teachers don't? Although my parents have told me that I must remain with the same resource room teacher until they can figure a way of getting me out of that classroom, I am here to ask you to please change my situation so I do not have to sit in a room with an adult who thinks that I intimidated her or that I am a trouble maker.I met with a psychologist at my home and during our conversation I realized that people needed to hear my story and that is why I decided to do this.The Self-Advocacy Association has taught me one very important thing and that is, "Nothing for me, without me." Thank you for listening to my story.