Suspended?!?!
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Well maybe its different here or maybe there are just more strict now. I have only been out of high school for like 3 years. Wow, has it really only been 3 years! It seems like forever. I never looked back and dont miss it one bit which is strange b/c I had a great experience and lots of friends. I guess i am just glad that I am not being judged for the things people judge you for in high school. I had a lot of "friends" but they werent all real friends if you know what I mean. They were all nice and stuff, they were just superficial friends, though. I am so glad to be done w/ all that immature drama, though.
That's because you're comparing two separate things. The whole issue is people claiming that hair ignites into an inferno in a seconds time.
I'm not saying that a full head of fire isn't dangerous, that close to your brain. I'm saying the girl over reacted because her hair wouldn't become the Phoenix in a couple of seconds.
I'm not saying that a full head of fire isn't dangerous, that close to your brain. I'm saying the girl over reacted because her hair wouldn't become the Phoenix in a couple of seconds.
GO really. I do know people (depending on their hair... people hair is often less dense than dog hair. And you with your science background should know better that to assume both are the same) who's hair HAS caught fire. The girl in high school's hair DID go up in seconds-think late 80's big hair (she was behind the times). So your comparison of dog hair is interesting, but it doesn't beat actual data on human hair.
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again...since when does a person's need to vent equate to kid glove handling and require no answers or comments that aren't strictly positive and "go you!"??? Are these thoughts not posted publicly...among people known to have...GASP.....opinions on things??
If there was any product in her hair it sure as heck would! Can't tell you how many times we were lectured in my chem class about the bunsen burners and keeping your hair and clothing away from them. Apparently a girl had leaned over one while filling out a paper and her hair caught on fire. She had hairspray in her hair and it lit up.
It only does take a matter of seconds. Trust me, I had a flaming head of hair once. Also, was the dog in question drenched in hairspray? Keep in mind too that human girl hair tends to be in long bundles, very different from a relatively sparse and spread out dog hair, unless you were watching an afghan be cremated.
Well....
I haven't read the entire thread... but there is a lot of anger in here.
I WOULD have defended myself and not given a good darn about being suspended... only that the other girl didn't get suspended for it.
I guess times have changed even since I was in highschool.
A lighter was a totally normal thing for kids to have in highschool. YOu weren't allowed to smoke just anywhere on school property, they had a designated area but you WERE allowed to have a lighter.
I am not saying that what this girl did was not dangerous... it certainly WAS. But I also wouldn't blow off "throwing her against a wall" and just say it was a push lol. there is quite a difference.
In any case... i would say BOTH students should be suspended. not just one. And then the parents can deal with it as they see fit I suppose.
I haven't read the entire thread... but there is a lot of anger in here.
I WOULD have defended myself and not given a good darn about being suspended... only that the other girl didn't get suspended for it.
I guess times have changed even since I was in highschool.
A lighter was a totally normal thing for kids to have in highschool. YOu weren't allowed to smoke just anywhere on school property, they had a designated area but you WERE allowed to have a lighter.
I am not saying that what this girl did was not dangerous... it certainly WAS. But I also wouldn't blow off "throwing her against a wall" and just say it was a push lol. there is quite a difference.
In any case... i would say BOTH students should be suspended. not just one. And then the parents can deal with it as they see fit I suppose.
At risk of further inflaming this already overblown topic, everyone is misquoting the OP. She never said she threw the girl into the wall and hurt her, she said,"So what do I do? FLing her at the wall." IMO flinging at a wall implies no actual contact between lighter girl and wall, thus I assume the OP simply pushed the girl, and even if the intent was to have her hit the wall, she did not.
I would like to add that I must have been really sheltered and so were my kids, because in all my and their years of education we have yet to have anyone attempt to set us on fire. I don't think either I or they would have taken it well, and we are pacifists.
I would like to add that I must have been really sheltered and so were my kids, because in all my and their years of education we have yet to have anyone attempt to set us on fire. I don't think either I or they would have taken it well, and we are pacifists.
I think it depends on the state and district. The one high school I spent my freshmen and sophmore year at had no problems with students having lighters. As long as they kept them concealed. Kinda like the cell phone rule we could have them but we couldn't/shouldn't have them out of our lockers/pockets/purses.
Now the high school I went to for my Junior and senior years didn't allow lighters at all. If you were caught with one either on you or in your locker you recieved detention. Now it was a much rougher neighborhood with alot of gangs and violence.
Now the high school I went to for my Junior and senior years didn't allow lighters at all. If you were caught with one either on you or in your locker you recieved detention. Now it was a much rougher neighborhood with alot of gangs and violence.