Remember, corporations are people. Students...we're still not really sure.

My dad traumatized me by shaving his mustache off once when I was about 3! It was horrible. This random guy came upstairs when I was napping, and I was so scared that I had a whole conversation with him before understanding that it was my dad. It was so scary that I remember it to this day.

I think it's important that we keep schools underfunded to all hell, even if it means feeding kids rotting food.

When I was in high school, I saw boxes of food that said "low grade but edible."

Yeah, like them:

The police have a right to ask for your ID if they have "reasonable suspicion" that you are involved in illegal activity. I'm not convinced the officer did in this case.

It's depressing seeing the stuff we feed to our students in this country. The blogs about school food in other countries (especially Japan and France) are eye opening. It doesn't have to be this way but we value education and health so little that we give cafeteria contracts to companies that bid the lowest and, as a…

It's entirely possible that Sodexho or Aramark also does the high school food. So there's that. :\

Happened to me in NYC. The only thing that shut down the questioning was the fact that they suddenly noticed that I was carrying a massive fucking bag with my laptop and about 4 books (seems an inconvenient thing to carry around while working). A massive bag that it took 10 minutes (or what felt like 10 minutes) to…

It was not her fault. She is 9. Her parents signed her up to shoot and allowed her to shoot an Uzi. The range allows minors to shoot automatic weapons. Vacca himself switched it to automatic. THEY are all at fault here. She is just a victim of the idiots around her.

No, it wasn't. It wasn't in any way, any of her fault. She's fucking 9 years old for goodness sake. This is absolutely 100% the fault of the fuckwit who put an uzi in her hands, switched it to fully automatic, then told her to pull the trigger. The fully grown adult who, at any point, could have said "You know…

I see schools have learned the lessons of local municipalities. Instead of having a reasonable tax level to run your local government and school, fine the living shit out of the people least likely to be able to pay it for every minor violation and run it off of those proceeds.

Apparently they are instructed to do so in all situations where they have used deadly force in case the person is not actually dead.

So, your school's policy is to steal their personal property for something so minor and then compound the crime by making the student pay to get their property back. Gotcha.

It may be de rigeur, but it's a policy that needs to end in all schools. And I say this as a high school teacher. Mobile technologies are here to stay. Schools need to find ways to incorporate these kinds of technologies into their classrooms, not try to simply ban them.

This is the authoritarian mindset on display. Do what you're told regardless of reason or circumstances or you will pay the price (i.e., we will do whatever we want to you, up to and including shooting you dead).

From my time as a middle and high school substitute, I vividly recall that students would go utterly ballistic if a teacher tried to confiscate the cell phone, even if the rules were crystal clear. Cases that should have resulted in no punishment but the phone being temporarily removed for a class period would end…

I think this is the core of the problem we are seeing with cops. This view that you must comply, and if you don't the response is going to be shock and awe use of force.

"She asked me for the phone and I didn't want to give it to her, because I was scared. I ended up walking down the stairs trying to get away from the AP (assistant principal) and then she had already called the cops."

Man, what would they have done if she was using Google Glass, just randomly opened fire?