Shot In The Dark: Kill The Messenger

March 24, 2005

Kill The Messenger

More Zero Tolerance in action; a principal suspends a student who caught her breaking the law:

Smoking within 25 feet of a school is illegal in Rhode Island. Eliazar Velasquez, a sophomore at Central High School in the Providence Public School District, took pictures of Principal Elaine Elmagno smoking just outside an open school door. Elmagno suspended him indefinitely last Friday.

"I walked right by her and acted like I was leaving as she was lighting up her cigarette and I hid behind the wall," said Eliazar Velasquez, who was suspended. "And I just stuck the camera out behind the wall and that's how I got the shots of her smoking."

Velasquez took the pictures of his principal...and posted them on an Internet Web site to show others the principal he calls a "hypocrite."

Elmagno was suspended for harassing and slandering the principal and for being disruptive influence.

Zero Inteligence - the site dedicated to exposing the idiocy of Zero Tolerance laws - posts links to the parties involved in this moronic suspension.

Posted by Mitch at March 24, 2005 06:26 AM | TrackBack

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Mitch - according to Yahoo News, the school district has backed off of punishing this kid and the principal has apologized PUBLICALLY for what happened.....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=10&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_re_us/brf_smoking_principal

A win for common sense?

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