Hold my beer and watch as I....

[VonMessa]

Read that & thought to myself...





...future Marine. 

You owe me a new monitor........

Hooah !

[Dragon]

I remember when I was young, maybe 8th grade or so, my buddy and I were building something and had an electro-magnet designed for less than 110v.  We also had in our possession an old lamp cord and an outlet.  

I was holding the magnet when my buddy plugged it in; the magnet hummed extremely loudly and tore out of my hand and slammed into the bed frame causing a noise that brought the whole house running to see wtf just happened.  

I learned about electricity that day.  It's amazing how much a person can learn when they can no longer sit down without causing more pain.

[Getback]

The parents should be sued for sending such a dumb kid to school.

[sluggish]

Sluggish,

It's thinking like that and nobody feeling like they are personally accountable that is a MAJOR problem in the educational system in this country.  The kids were doing something they should have had enough common sense not to do and they're blaming the school? Give me a break.  I rail against school systems trying to parent my kid.  I've done it for 17 years and feel like I've done a pretty good job.  I do NOT need a government institution to tell me how to raise him and make him sign contracts for what he can and can not do outside of school.  If he screws up he has to face not only the administration but ME.  I've been lucky.  Got a good kid with a solid head on his shoulders and I can guarantee that he wouldn't have been involved in such a bone headed stunt.  If parents took responsibility for their kids actions across this country I doubt we'd have to deal with metal detectors at the front doors and roving police patrols in the halls.  

But you're making my pont for me...  They DO want control of your kid.  They DO want him to sign contracts for activities outside of school.  They DO want to marginalize your influence on your child.  BUT....  They claim no responsibility to your child when he is under their direct supervision...

[Dichotomy]

Considering that both my parents worked in the schools and my sister is a high school teacher I can assure you that the schools do NOT want to have to do those things.  They are forced to by parents who do not hold their kids accountable for aberrant behavior. 

All of that aside the bottom line is that the kids did something STUPID and now their parents want to point fingers and get a big pay day instead of smacking Junior upside the head and making him and his idiot friend earn the money to pay the hospital bill. 

[sluggish]

Considering that both my parents worked in the schools and my sister is a high school teacher I can assure you that the schools do NOT want to have to do those things.  They are forced to by parents who do not hold their kids accountable for aberrant behavior. 

All of that aside the bottom line is that the kids did something STUPID and now their parents want to point fingers and get a big pay day instead of smacking Junior upside the head and making him and his idiot friend earn the money to pay the hospital bill. 

Since your parents and sister are part of the system I would expect you to defend it.  Remember, it was the Dept of Ed Secretary that said we need twelve hour school days - thirteen months a year no less.  BUT... They CANNOT be held accountable for what happens to the kids while they are there...

[VonMessa]

Considering that both my parents worked in the schools and my sister is a high school teacher I can assure you that the schools do NOT want to have to do those things.  They are forced to by parents who do not hold their kids accountable for aberrant behavior. 

All of that aside the bottom line is that the kids did something STUPID and now their parents want to point fingers and get a big pay day instead of smacking Junior upside the head and making him and his idiot friend earn the money to pay the hospital bill. 

Amen.

[CAP1]

no one should be suing anyone over something as dumb as this. learn, and be glad their son is alive.

[Dichotomy]

Since your parents and sister are part of the system I would expect you to defend it.  Remember, it was the Dept of Ed Secretary that said we need twelve hour school days - thirteen months a year no less.  BUT... They CANNOT be held accountable for what happens to the kids while they are there...

Actually my family and I disagree vehemently about our 'educational system' however we do agree that, due to a large portion of 'parents' abdicating the raising of their kids to schools, teachers, and day care centers, schools have had to become more intrusive in the home.

However you and I are not going to agree on this subject and it's not worth a purse fight so I'll just agree to disagree 

CAP Indeed

[greens]

no one should be suing anyone over something as dumb as this. learn, and be glad their son is alive.

Cap1 u get 2million fighter points for that 

[Heater]

And Just think... these people are our Future....

I think we  are in a world of  shXt

[fbWldcat]

Electricity works like this... Please note, I learned this in FIFTH GRADE... And some of the basics even before that from my parents... I also learned it in 8th, 9th and 11th grade.

Electricity is divided into two categories.

AC-Alternating Current, such as you would find in a outlet.

DC- Direct Current, such as you would find in a battery.

Alternating current is a current in which the direction of electrons is moving unpredictably. Ex: Forward, backward, up, down, etc, etc.
Direct Current is a current which is steady, continuous and goes in "one direction."

http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/010892.html

The average resistance of the human body is nowhere near enough to keep the person alive when severely shocked.

Basically how electricity works in the idiot kids' case is through a circuit. You know all about + and - on a battery? Basically touching two different wires completes the circuit, the heart is in between the arms and is directly hit. This causes arrhythmia and palpatations. Unable to effectively transfer blood throughout the body, the heart beats becomes ineffective, a person's body begins to shut down and they die. There you go... summed up in a paragraph.

[Rattler]

man...what ever happened to common sense?....

[Dichotomy]

It isn't exactly common any more nor is 'common' courtesy..

[bagrat]

he should have google searched how electricity works on his iphone before acting like an idiot, his parents are the true morons though for wanting to sue the school over this.... guess it's clear to see where jr gets his bright ideas from.