Re: "It's just pot.": Double Standard?

Spread Eagle® wrote:
> On Jul 15, 10:16 pm, Bill Shatzer <bshatze...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Spread Eagle® wrote:
>>
>> -snip-
>>
>>> Sorry, but I never said fire him.  Maybe somebody else said that but
>>> not me.  I say it's up to the good citizens of Vernonia.  They get
>>> to decide what they'll tolerate from their school principal.
>>
>>> Me, this is about what I've come to expect from the public education
>>> system, and this'll just go down as reason #147 why my kids and my
>>> grandkids have never and will never set foot in public school.
>>
>> You think public school teachers are the only ones who blow weed?
>
>> MOLOAA, Kauai » A science teacher and the athletic director of an
>> expensive private North Shore school were arrested last week for
>> allegedly growing marijuana at their home.
>
>
> Being an expensive private school isn't the combination of factors
> that results in having a good staff.  It's just a start.  And it
> doesn't have to be expensive either.
>
> I sat on the board of three private schools.  More than any other one
> area of oversight, we spent by far the most amount of our time
> reviewing personnel matters, recruiting, hiring, and retaining good
> staff, most often teachers, but also principals a couple of times.
>
> And it isn't so much of needing to check prospective teachers' or
> principals' backgrounds, references, previous employers, consumer
> checks, having a licensed psychologist run an extensive battery of
> tests, including the MMPI with a variety of pertinent subcales,

Every pot smoker I know would sail through these.  Are you confusing pot
smokers with crackheads?

>and
> verification church member****p in the right church, regular
> attendance, and active participation in church functions, and talking
> at length to the pastor/priest/rabbi and to other church office-
> holders.

You think church member****p and participation proves anything?  I don't.

>Of course you need to do all that due diligence.  More
> im****tant though is the need to seek out in affirmative terms the
> right sort of person exuding the right set of values and living the
> right sort of lifestyle.

What kind of lifestyle do you think people who smoke pot live?  They are
just like anyone else, except they smoke pot.  This guy clearly paid his
bills and did his job.  The only problem I have with him -- and it's a BIG
one -- is his hypocrisy in sup****ting the random testing of students for
drugs.  THAT is not good.

> You do that, you do all that, chances are
> very unlikely and very remote that you're going to end up with a 41-
> year old pothead on your hands.  Very unlikely and very remote.

I don't know.  I know many pot smokers who are just fantastic, successful
people.  I know pot smokers in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.  It's
not
my  cup of tea, but then again, neither is alcohol.  I know people who
have
their glass of wine with dinner who are also great.
>
> But with all that if you still have a person who unbeknownst to you
> and unbeknownst to everybody else smokes pot, well then obviously they
> secretly got one over on you, and over on a lot of other people too
> for that matter.
>
> But this guy,  he's out gallavanting around in a public park smoking
> dope, ostentatiously bringing himself to the attention of law
> enforcement.

From what I understand -- and I could be wrong -- it was a large, state
park, appropriate for camping and with lots of privacy.  I don't care if
someone smokes some pot there.

>You guys love Darwin, right?  This is social Darwinism
> at work.  This guy self-selected himself out of the pool with his
> stupidity.  He deserves what he gets, whatever it turns out to be.

I don't think he deserves anything bad for smoking pot.
>
>  --
> The Spreadster®
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