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Can't blame Republicans for this one.

7

Wow! Another "no burger" walk out by students. .

What will they think of next?

9

this World
will soon be
Yours, chirrens.

grab it by the Balls*
and Make It SO

your Time is
rapidly run-
ning Out.

*Metaphorically
speaking
duh

@4 -- evidently

10

“the Class of 2024 does not want someone accused of a crime–regardless of their guilt–to be the face of our class.”

I think this must be a challenging topic to cover as a journalist, given the emotional response on both sides. (Evident in the comments, although I was expecting worse, frankly...) I'm glad that it's being reported on here. Hope to see thoughtful and nuanced coverage, which is so rare and so sorely needed. It's complicated, real people are affected in lasting ways, and the right answers aren't always obvious. Hopefully we can figure out how to tell the truest possible stories and hear each other openly. But anyway, wow. Interesting read.

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Russian high school students: Taught to field strip a Kalashnikov.
American high school students: Taught that words are equivalent to violence.

I fear for the future of our country.

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"Since the alleged assault happened off-campus, SPS cannot investigate and the case is in the Seattle Police Department’s hands."
Is this not the salient point of the story? Does the school district have authority over students outside school hours, events and property? When I was in high school this expansive new of school administrators' authority would not have been well received. I was up to a lot of mischief out of the view of the high school administrators.
“the Class of 2024 does not want someone accused of a crime–regardless of their guilt–to be the face of our class.”
Has "innocent until proven guilty" given way to mob justice and peasants marching with torches and pitchforks? This is a good thing?

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I feel for the school. Both students have rights and the school has limited jurisdiction to investigate. Any well meaning misstep can result in a lawsuit, further draining resources for a rapidly dis-enrolling district.

Most of the demands seem quite reasonable and there’s no harm in extending them, although you could drive a truck through what a “positive environment” for victims looks like. Need to get clearer on what that is for everyone’s sake.

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@19: "What these kids want is some extra-judicial outcome that's not realistic but at least they are showing her some support."

They've already hounded the accused into giving up a leadership position. And the students need to understand why their efforts have indeed violated their school's code against harassment, intimidation, and bullying. They need to learn how the road to hell is so often paved with good intentions, and how feeling right and just and good provides no proof against doing real harm to the innocent. They need to learn why we have due process, presumption of innocence, the rule of law, evidentiary requirements, and all of those associated, tedious procedures, all of which delay gratification in the cause of justice. This is a teachable moment, and I hope their school continues teaching them.

@2, etc.: Contrary to your implication of hypocrisy, the Stranger has remained consistent. For the last few years, they have championed open lawlessness and mob rule, and made very, very clear their loathing and contempt for our laws, courts, police, and individual rights. Have drugged-out, violent campers seized public property for uncompensated private use? Great! Needles on playgrounds? What needles?!? Save the Showbox by simply ignoring the very idea of private property? Go CM Sawant!!! Lose big-time in court? Outrageous! Nobody could have predicted! (Except, of course, our many commenters who had done exactly that, and whom we therefore so utterly despise.)

Heck, they even endorsed a candidate for City Attorney who promised not to prosecute violent crimes against women. After that brilliant decision somehow failed, they then railed against the majority of citizens, for actually daring to vote in favor of prosecuting such crimes. The barrel, it has no bottom.

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@20: "They need to learn why we have due process, presumption of innocence, the rule of law, evidentiary requirements, and all of those associated, tedious procedures, all of which delay gratification in the cause of justice".

Exactly. My long-deceased Dad was a judge. He would often say "We don't try people in the newspaper, and there is a reason for that."


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