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Chinese student expelled for Counter-Strike maps of high school |
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Recently, a Chinese student in Clements High School was expelled for having played Counter-Strike in a level that had hallways reminiscent of his own school's hallways. Following the parents' appeal for reconsideration, the Ford Bend Independent School District had postponed the meeting because four of the school board's members refused to show up. The appeal was the fourth part of a long appeal process, ultimately ending up with a meeting with the Board of Trustees.
Defending their stand, the FBISD trustees who stayed away said that the meeting itself "circumvented" the disciplinary process. Board member Stan Magee stated that the meeting could have expedited the resolution of the case. Unfortunately, third-party onlookers have began to say that the board's rash decision was an overreaction to the Virginia Tech incident.
Coupled with the video game-related banter coming from anti-video game media icons, even Magee admits that their resolution was an effect of fear, stating, "I think we overreacted as a result of the Virginia Tech ordeal." Although the Chinese community rallied behind the 17 year old boy, there are many sentiments that have risen against the act despite people applauding the quick response of the board.
FBISD spokeswoman Mary Ann Simpson stated, "This goes back to Columbine. Ever since that horrid incident took place schools today have to take every incident that is reported very seriously." She iterates that these things had to be taken seriously, and that students needed to know that such things aren't taken lightly anymore.
Only Magee, Simpson and Ken Bryant appeared in the meeting on Monday at the districts headquarters. The other four members, namely Steve Smelley, Sonal Bhuchar, Cynthia Knox and Laurie Caldwell, did not arrive for the 5:30 p.m. meeting, which became cause for the meeting to be cancelled.
Ultimately, the 12th grader has been barred from graduating from the school and has been transferred to M.R. Wood Alternative Education Center. What do you think? Feel free to discuss, but keep it clean people. We might just give out two-cents worth on this, too.
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who cares?
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BUILD for DUKE3D.
Geez, this generation of people sadden me...
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Come to think of it, I was kicked out of my old neighborhood. Connection, anyone?
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my friends go to clements
kempner high school
i played a map of my school one time...hope that guy who made it doesnt get busted
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hey to the guy above my comment..I GO TO KEMPNER HIGH TOO!!
cougar pride...ehhh not really but whatever
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Gee...way to s*****feed the facts, huh?
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People need to stop being afraid of kids, and they need to realise these guys don't shoot up schools because they played a violent computer game, they shoot up schools because they don't feel like they belong there and feel totally disenfranchised with the rest of the world, maybe instead of overreacting to violent video games or stereotyping races, how's about some kids just think about being nice to the weird kid in their class for once?
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This is the first step to make it more, White. Not to mention my own brother was assaulted at Bixby, just because he's Chinese.
If this kid isn't Chinese, at least people will come to the meeting and we will see some protests.
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This is pure BS.
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I don't remember people going crazy over Columbine (white kids killing), or the Oklahoma bombing (white guy). Now that we have a Korean guy killing at VT, all of a sudden, it's all the Asians must be planning the same thing...
Until we get these RACIST PIGS off and out of the country, the US will never be a melting pot.
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I don't remember the Columbine details, but I'm pretty sure those kids didn't play video games.
I always thought it would be fun to have a Doom map of my high school. Some of my friends agreed with me too, but back then I don't think the faculty really knew what a game was. They certainly wouldn't have had this kind of reaction to it even if they found out about it.
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MY PR1nC1iPl3 PL@Y5 CS!!!!
H3S S0 L33T LOLZ
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Sorry, just had to.
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