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[clevermanka]

Student suspended for tweeting that school sports teams were bad. The conflicting standards for what constitutes appropriate clothing for boys and girls is nauseating. I am so glad (for a number of reasons) that I'm not in high school anymore.

My three-day weekend was wonderful. A good combination of productivity and relaxation. mckitterick and I removed the following from the Chevelle: gas tank, front seat, back seat, door panels, carpet, and most of the carpet padding. We watched a movie. I met with Andrew and had a photo shoot for selling my bloomers on Etsy. I cleaned my old cast iron skillet with electrolysis and re-seasoned it. We ran an errand in KC. I slept as much as I wanted. All that in three days! Wonderful.

Not wonderful: I'm less than thrilled with my body progress. It's been a month since I increased my activity level to lifting three times a week. I admit I've slacked off a bit on the yoga. I'm only getting two or three home sessions in a week in addition to my two or three classes a week. But I'm up at least an inch around my waist. Last week I couldn't zip up a pair of jeans I was recently able to wear again. What the hell? Frustrating.

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Comments

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

The one tweet (https://twitter.com/Rolltide_Teague/status/329950066708197376) is being chosen as "starting it all" and Wesley's explanation of it seems valid. He says he was comparing calling the athletic teams "HeightsU" (calling the High School a University) was comparable to the (disbanded in 1986, so non-existent) WSU teams.

From my overall impression of what I've read, the multiple tweets are what other students posted, antagonizing him and then he responded. Quite frankly, it sounds to me like he's being thrown under the bus for how the other students responded to his tweet. *They* were threatening him, and then the admin is saying his suspension is over his initial tweet, (http://www.kwch.com/kwch-bh-news-heights-senior-suspended-over-twitter-fallout-20130508,0,6924967.story) so I believe that it's still overreaction on the school's part.

But yes, I see your overall point about kids and social media. For that matter, I think we've all been privy to posting something taken the wrong way, and suffering fallout from others who misconstrued our intent.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

For that matter, I think we've all been privy to posting something taken the wrong way, and suffering fallout from others who misconstrued our intent.

Oh, absolutely! Additionally, posting also allows the "out" of "oh, no, i didn't mean to upset you" even if you damn well did because it's always possible to make a case that someone miscontrued something when they didn't. So it's all around a dangerous ground.

And, as i said, i think the punishment is preposterous all around but I can appreciate how schools are screwed "in this day and age" (old lady that I am) because it was one thing when it was a group of Mean Girls whispering and giggling in the back of a classroom compared to a 'for all the world to see' online LOL about it now. So I can understand that the crackdown has to start off total and then ease off instead of the other way around, as far as the enforced definition of "bullying" goes. Because the genie is out of the bottle and girls are going to be tweeting "can you believe she wore that dress? #omgsougly" from prom forevermore!

is being chosen as "starting it all" .

Well, yeah, and it did. And my personal opinion is that it was on purpose since he posted "let the flood of subtweets start!" right afterwards (just scrolled through his tweets)*. So, he did what people do online when that urge hits and that's start shit because he was in the mood to start shit. I'm not buying any after the fact "oh, i didn't know i was starting shit". He started shit. And in my world, THAT'S OKAY but there are nonetheless consequences to it.

*and, interestingly, when the subtweets did start, someone quoted him/that original tweet and said "oooh what a class president we have" and he responded with "I'm not class president anymore". And that was on the original day, in the original tweets, before any suspension or anything so what's up with that? and another kid said he was on both teams so to watch his mouth and Teague responded with "Chris, you have rings in both sports. Ain't talking bout you." So, he had an audience in mind specifically when he posted.

ANYWAY, all this long thing to say the kid isn't some misunderstood choir boy, he knew what he was doing when he did it (the "hah this is fun!" to the replying tweets nails that), and there it is. But I don't think he should get suspended for it!

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[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

the crackdown has to start off total and then ease off instead of the other way around, as far as the enforced definition of "bullying" goes.

I agree with this, when it's deliberate bullying, but I'm not in agreement that expressing an opinion that offended the kids who coined the phrase "Heights U" constitutes Bullying. It sounds more like an upperclassman v. underclassman poke at posturing.
Hmm, about that "I'm not class president anymore".. I wondered about that, too. I'd venture to guess that he said he was no longer class president just as a one-off meaning "school's out", you know, defensively to the kid who tossed the sarcasm at him, but we have no way of knowing what is really going on behind tweets.