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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 06:37 AM
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School Makes Kids Use Buckets for Toilets
No one can be this stupid can they?



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_us/immigration_classroom_buckets;_ylt=AlbGUDc9iSoMWquOcyWLIGGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
School Makes Kids Use Buckets for Toilets

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INGLEWOOD, Calif. - An principal trying to prevent walkouts during immigration rallies inadvertently introduced a lockdown so strict that children weren't allowed to go to the bathroom, and instead had to use buckets in the classroom, an official said.

Worthington Elementary School Principal Angie Marquez imposed the lockdown March 27 as nearly 40,000 students across Southern California left classes to attend immigrants' rights demonstrations.

Marquez apparently misread the district handbook and ordered a lockdown designed for nuclear attacks.

Tim Brown, the district's director of operations, confirmed some students used buckets but said the principal's order to impose the most severe type of lockdown was an "honest mistake."
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 06:46 AM
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1. WOW Now when they go to WAR
They will know how to SHIT in a bucket !!!
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 06:54 AM
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2. so peeing in a bucket will keep me safe in a nuclear war? who knew?
I'm really glad I'm not in high school anymore.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:08 AM
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3. Interesting--they must have buckets available.



...."When there's a nuclear attack, that's when buckets are used," Brown told the Los Angeles Times. The principal "followed procedure. She made a decision to follow the handbook. She just misread it."

A message left by The Associated Press for the principal at the school before business hours Monday was not immediately returned, and Marquez did not return telephone calls from the Times.

Appalled parents have complained to the school board. Brown said the school district planned to update its emergency preparedness instructions to give more explicit directions.
....

"There was no violence at the protests, so this was based on w
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:18 AM
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4. The lockdown was an honestly
incompetent mistake.

I love teachers. They educated my kids. The vast majority are bright and driven to educate our kids. But I swear there are some that are dumber than dirt and are teaching because they can't fnd a decent job in the private sector because of stupidity or whatever. This woman probably falls in this category.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:24 AM
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6. she was the Principal, -Peter Principle=WH
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 08:42 AM
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10. "HEY ANGIE" you're doing a hell of a job
Edited on Mon Apr-17-06 08:42 AM by saigon68
I wonder who held the roll of toilet paper so they could wipe themselves

Maybe they just let the 1st graders "DRIP DRY"
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:20 AM
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5. what, she phoned in the lockdown from the local bar?
how could she not realize what was going on in her own school?
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:25 AM
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7. So...how does peeing in a bucket keep you safe from the nuclear attack?
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Akoto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:36 AM
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8. Probably in the same way that hiding under your desk does.
That is to say, it doesn't. :P
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 08:35 AM
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9. Was this Flatpoint High?
Sounds about that absurd.
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 08:53 AM
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11. where's the teacher's union?
No way would I allow kids to be peeing and defecating in buckets in my classroom!
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 09:30 AM
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12. Did the kids have any privacy when using the buckets?
What a humiliating ordeal.

I hope this principal understands that will henceforth be remembered for her incompetence and lack of common sense.

Why didn't the other teachers try and stop her? I wonder if they despise her for other reasons and was hoping she'd screw up and get the boot.
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Bushies gotta go Donating Member (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 09:51 AM
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13. Incredible
Exactly how many elementary students did she expect to join a protest? Did anyone tell her that this is pretty much limited to older students?

This woman needs to have both her Principal and Teaching certificates yanked, then be fired and blackballed from education. A Mere "she misread so we'll forgive" doesn't cut it. Where the hell is the outrage in this community?
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anotherdrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 10:53 AM
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14. the "honest mistake" was mindlessly following such an assinine directive
everyone involved needs their damn heads examined.
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 11:21 AM
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15. The mistake was letting this person become principal in the first place
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anotherdrew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 12:11 PM
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16. so... all classrooms are equiped with piss-buckets now? how 21st century!
shame on you Angie Marquez
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ConcernedCanuk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:03 PM
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17. The United States of America - the NEWEST 3rd world country
.
.
.

my, my

what a progressive nation you are

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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 07:15 PM
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18. Why was she so willing to comply such a drastic lockdown?
Even if she thought it had been ordered, why didn't she resist?
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