La Cueva High School has a drug problem; just like every other public high school. Drug use at La Cueva just draws more attention because it is a school for affluent white kids who aren't supposed to have drug abuse issues.
Three LCHS baseball players got caught with pot and paraphernalia, link. The players should have known the consequences of getting caught; I wouldn't be surprised to find they have signed some kind of document making them liable for penalties which apply to no others; one of which is a 45 day suspension from extra curricular activities. There is no equivalent consequence for students who are not athletes. No one makes any effort to ferret out what is perhaps their most meaningful and successful life endeavor, and then deny them its exercise for 45 days as a consequence for their misconduct.
Don't get me wrong; I believe that deliberate misconduct should have consequences and one of those consequences should be punishment. The punishment however, should be the same for everyone who earns it; not greater for student athletes and lesser for non-athletes.
All of this could be handled internally at La Cueva. Nevertheless, APS Supt Winston Brooks and the APS Communications Department have stepped in to intervene.
The conclusion; one of APS' premier high schools has incompetents in command who cannot handle the day to day issues of running a school.
Or, Brooks is a micro-manager who can't keep his hands to himself and likes to appear in the press, as a take charge kind of guy who will end drug use by student athletes singlehanded.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Brooks micromanaging La Cueva drug bust
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There are consequences for all students you idiot. Athletes are not being singled out. Athletics and other activities are a privilege, not a required class. They should absolutely have that privilege taken away for at least 45 days. Don't give me this no exercise nonsense either, that's a ridiculous argument. You are getting more and more out there dude.
There most certainly are not "equal" consequences for all students; you obviously have no personal experience with public school discipline.
Athletics are privilege no more than history or math. If we are paying attention to individual student needs, there are no privileged classes. The education that takes place outside the school day is as important as that which takes place from 8 to 3.
The only place I used the word exercise was;
"No one makes any effort to ferret out what is perhaps their most meaningful and successful life endeavor, and then deny them its exercise for 45 days as a consequence for their misconduct."
It would be the exercise of an endeavor, not the right to "exercise". It would appear that in your rush to rudeness, you didn't even read carefully enough to understand what I wrote.
It would appear that I am not the idiot.
Have a nice day.
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