[airspirit]

If a police officer gave me a ticket for swearing, or to any of my children, I'd give them a dose of US Navy regulation cursing that would make their ears bleed, and contact my representatives for gross misconduct. That is, of course, assuming that there is no law in your area prohibiting cursing in public. Schools can NOT institute laws in any state of the union under ANY circumstances, and can NOT prohibit any conduct unless it is directly detrimental to a learning environment, or is creating a hostile environment (per federal law). Screeching GODDAMMIT!!! after slamming your hand in a locker or some such nonsense does NOT fall into any of those categories and ticketing such conduct is ILLEGAL and should be challenged at the earliest possible opportunity. Now, if the student stands up in class and calls his or her teacher a "Poxy pus infected @ss-wh0re", that is a different matter all together because it is contrary to a learning environment.

The sad reality, though, is that the rent-a-cops that work at such schools normally have no clue about what really is going on. In my hometown's reject mill, you'd be convinced it is a good school environment if you just got a cursory look at it. You'd be suprised how many of those kids are doped up, planning criminal activity for the evening, planning copulation activity for the afterhours, and being institutionalized and prepared for a career in prison. The one in my hometown started providing condoms to the students (like dealers push crack) recently when they discovered on a survey that nearly every one of them had at LEAST one STD, most had multiple. The thin sugar-coating and good intentions of the staff do not make up for the reality of most of those schools, and the staff don't find out about 5% of the ruckus that is really going on.

If I were you, I'd pray for school vouchers and remember the whispered motto of the alternative school in my hometown: "It's all fun and games until someone gets a wiener in the butt." Don't leave your daughter there, or she will suffer. That isn't speculation. She'd be better off getting an education from PBS, MTV, and her local branch offices (dat be mah ho's crib, yo) of the Crips and Bloods.