A Minnesota school district has agreed that the taxpayer will pay $70,000
FTFY.
Pity it won't come out of the individuals' pockets.
Well, it might have. The principal who is quoted in the article isn't the one who was there at the time, and the article doesn't talk about what happened to the Previous Administration. So in my happy world, the jackass who did this got quietly disappeared into a research taskforce on ant populations in kindergarten sandboxes.
And when you consider that a well-funded lawyer would still be pocket change for the Internet Tycoons?
I've said it before, I'll say it again - if I ever come into Crazy Stupid Money like those folks, I will keep a room full of Trained Attack Lawyers on call, solely for these sorts of "public service opportunities".
There's an argument that certain off-campus behaviours should be covered by school rules; cheating (i.e. hiring someone to do a school project, etc), kids on a school team using performance enhancing drugs, possibly bullying.
Most of those still involve on-school activities.
Once my kid leaves the school ground, that's not the school's problem anymore.
"One of the items they wanted us to sign stated that we waive the right to sue if our child was killed during a field trip. Only three parents refused to sign, and those students stayed at school while the rest of the class went on the field trip."
As a parent, my first question would be - what the hell are you doing wrong that your first concern on a permission form is "don't sue us"?
My kid's permission slips are things like "I agree to pay the cab fare if she's a little shit and we send her home early" (and useful things like permission to administer first aid and call doctors and things). I'd be asking questions if they wanted blanket immunity before taking my kid to the park too.
Most school boards have a mandate to prevent bullying, and the facebook comments probably fall under this category since it was made by a student of the school about an employee of the school. That it occurred outside the school is irrelevant, because the school must provide a mentally healthy workplace for both the employee and the student. I agree that the specific incident is overreach and not a good way to resolve anything, but there is very likely some legal responsibility on the school's part to deal with the conflict.
So, if the *parent* had posted the comment, would the school be justified in sending over the cops to get *their* password? Call you into the CEO's office?
The summary said she gave them her password. That sounds like permission.
And the article says that she gave them the password after being told to, in the principal's office, with a police officer present.
Which is pretty much the school-age equivalent of being arrested. It's a fairly safe bet that it was not meant to be interpreted as a request.
Then you find out if they're actually serious about it or not.
If it's just stupid boilerplate, they might never notice. If it's something they're slipping under the radar (my daughter's school tried a "we can use your daughter's image and name in our promotional materials" sheet this year), then they'll either quietly put a note in her file to Not Mess With This One, or they'll try and push it as a requirement (and then put the note in her file when they realize they're SOL here).
If it's an honest to goodness Actual Legal Thing, then you'll start hearing from the school board lawyers.
Yet another person who doesn't seem to understand what the word holistic means. How did the natives know about these properties? How did natives use them in treatments. Oh, that's right, you have no clue.
You should probably wait till DaveV2.0 before opening your mouth again.
And I know a few "alternative practitioners" who try desperately to get the attention of Mainstream Medicine to help discover why things work, and can't get their attention.
These days, if you found a tree bark that did something, you'd never get a doctor to admit it - he doesn't get a kickback from Big Tree, after all.
This is easy; in Australia the ticket is issued to the owner of the vehicle.
In Canada it's even funnier - since the photo is of the rear of the car (and thus you can't see who's driving), photo radar is fined to the vehicle as a non-moving violation. Yup, same category as parking tickets and the like.
They literally don't care who was behind the wheel - your car was going too fast, you're the owner, you get the fine. Only difference is that you don't get demerits (since they don't even try to prove you were the driver).
As the Boston bombing shows, the NSA is really not reading facebook. They're storing all this shit. but it's not used for any actual intelligence work. I can only speculate what it is used for, but chances are that's it's about money. So feel free to post on facebook, that's the last place they'll look.
More accurately, they're storing it so that once they decide you're the guilty one, they can easily backtrack through everything you've ever said or did to "prove" it. Six lines from an honest man, and all that.
and one that should really be able to be solved by HR.
From reading between the lines it sounds as if she feels that HR was somewhere between ineffectual and complicit in all of this.
Which is most likely true.
Protip, employees: HR is not on your side.
HR is in the business of keeping the company out of trouble. If you're lucky, keeping the company out of trouble will include solving your problem. But that's nowhere near a guarantee. If the letter of the law says the boss can screw you over, it's a safe bet that HR is going to side with the boss.
I think the survey was 1. Male 2. Female 3. Do not want to disclose. 90-94% said they were male, and of the remaining 6-10%, half said they were female. The other half preferred not to say. But that does mean between 3-5% actually did identify as female.
If that is so, then it is incorrect to infer the sex of those who preferred not to disclose it.
The 90/10 number is male:not-male, so the number is accurate as far as the reporting goes. But considering it's no big secret that many women check the "male" box (to keep the Nice Shoes Brigade away), so I'm skeptical that that 90% is actually 90% in reality.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
