XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general
XPost: or.politics
From: ronpoirier@cox.net
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> "Bo Raxo" wrote in message
> news:HKudna6iGsK14QTbnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
>>"Paul J. Berg" wrote in message
>>news:2972-4699381B-774@storefull-3236.bay.webtv.net...
>>
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>>>School principal Aaron Miller is a drug-addict and is no example for the
>>>children of Vernonia, Oregon or anywhere else.
>>>
>>
>>Marijuana is not addictive, and there is no evidence that he is even a
>>habitual user, much less an addict.
>>
>
>
> Your right, he isn't a drug addict.
>
> But, he IS a drug ABUSER.
>
> I used to smoke pot myself and am very aware of it's effects. Anybody
> that smokes weed knows that it's illegal. And, is the smoker is USING pot,
> the ARE NOT going to be smoking it in public, much less a park that
> is miles from home.
>
> You have a school principal here who is risking his job and possibly his
> remaining career so he can smoke some grass in a public park. In short,
> the guy cannot even wait an hour to get home and have a toke.
>
> For all the defenders out there, how exactly was this guy supposed
> to get home from this park he was toking out in? Walk home? I
> very much doubt it. No, he was just going to toke out and then
> get in his car and drive home. As in, under the influence.
You don't know that. In America a person has to commit a crime before
they can be guilty of it. This is not Minority Report.
>>>This is the example that lets children think that it is O.K. to do
>>>drugs.
>>>
>>
>>No, your attitude is an example of the oversimplification that makes
>>children not believe adults when they talk about drugs. Lumping together
>
> all
>
>>drugs, from marijuana to crack, under the same heading, calling someone a
>>drug addict when they are using a substance that isn't even addictive,
>
> it's
>
>>these kind of stupid mistakes that explain why adults have little
>>credibility when they try to demonize all drugs with kids.
>>
>
>
> Teenagers today know the score on pot perfectly well. They are intelligent
> enough to know that a teacher is pretty much required by school policy
> to say that recreational drug use is bad.
You are telling half of the deal here. You are omitting the dangerous part.
> What kids today need is positive examples of role models. I would not call
> an adult who takes as stupid a risk as this guy did any kind of positive
> role
> model. To me, him smoking pot ina public park is as stupid as riding a
> motorcycle without a helmet.
IOW his crime in your eyes is not that he smoked pot so much as that he
got caught doing it. There's a lovely lesson to teach our kids.
>>>If Mr. Miller was the school's janitor would he still have his job?
>>
>>If he was the school's janitor, would the school board have even found out
>>about the citation? Would it have made the news?
>>
>
>
> Irrelevant, schools are not holding up janitors as role models.
Why not? If kids know that janitors are getting arrested for possession
and keeping their jobs, won't that affect them too?
>>>perhaps. But he is in such a significant position that it doesn't matter
>>>how nice he is, he has an addiction and the children may be a risk.
>>>
>>
>>How are children at risk if he smokes pot on the weekend? A significant
>>percentage of those teenagers - and their parents - have smoked marijuana,
>>if they are in any way representative of statistical averages.
>>
>
>
> If he smoks pot on the weekend in the privacy of his home then fine, they
> are certainly not at risk. If he does so in a public place, gets high, then
> drives home then he's putting a lot of people at risk.
If he breaks the law, it's OK so long as he doesn't get caught?
You are funny.
- Ron ^*^
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