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No, dress code doesn't allow flying sandal
By TIMES WIRES
Published December 12, 2006
Some Pinellas school employees have been disciplined recently for putting their feet in their mouths with inappropriate remarks. Now comes another foot-related offense. When a Northeast High student repeatedly defied Delores Walker's demands to stop talking, she took off her sandal and threw it to make a point. Walker aimed for a file cabinet, but the sandal bounced off a desk and hit the student in the chest. The student was not hurt but responded with profanities. At today's School Board meeting, officials are recommending that Walker, a paraprofessional, receive a two-day suspension and "Ethics in Education" training. Hot news flash! Snowbirds really like Florida! It's not as if we haven't noticed the Ontario license plates and 45-minute waits at Carrabba's, but now a University of Florida study has made it official. More than 800,000 snowbirds come to Florida each winter, enough to fill the city of Jacksonville, or every hotel room in the Tampa Bay area, 20 people to a room. The study, based on 7,041 telephone interviews, also looked at Floridians over 55 who spend at least 30 consecutive days away from home. More than 300,000 of these snowbirds returned to their states of origin, or vacationed hither and yon in 2005. Now if someone can just figure out how to unclog Interstate 75. Sheehan spent day with jury instead Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan was scheduled to swing through Tampa on Monday for a rally and a fundraiser for the Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace. A jury changed her plans. Sheehan, 49, and three other women were convicted Monday of trespassing in New York for trying to deliver an anti-Iraq war petition to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in March. A judge ordered them to pay $95 in court costs and sentenced them to conditional discharge, meaning they could face a penalty if they are arrested in the next six months. The events kept her from making the trip to Tampa. Sheehan lost her 24-year-old son, Casey, in Iraq on April 4, 2004. School Board weighs club permission slips Should teenagers need parental permission to participate in high school clubs and activities? Hillsborough School Superintendent MaryEllen Elia, bolstered by a community-based committee that included students, says yes. Some School Board members, who will decide the issue today, aren't so sure. The debate stems from a dispute over the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance at Newsome High School, but the results would affect all schoolchildren taking part in any clubs and organizations.
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by Stuey
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12/12/06 10:07 PM
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What happens in schools would turn most people's hair white. That's pretty mild compared to adults and professionals engaging in some verbal arguments I've overheard. Hard to tell the adults sometimes.
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by Gilbert
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12/12/06 12:51 PM
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A teaching professional, throwimg her shoe to make a point. Still, all she received is a 2 day suspension. How about some Anger Management as well and a Conditional Professional Probation period. This sounds like Teacher Union mess to me.
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