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Boy Suspended for Sports Illus. Swimsuit Issue
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Boy Suspended for SI Magazine in School
BELPRE, Ohio (AP) - A sixth-grader started serving a three-day suspension Tuesday because he refused a lesser punishment for bringing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to school, the schools superintendent said.
Justin Reyes had the magazine in the gymnasium at Belpre Middle School before classes Feb. 18, and Principal Kathy Garrison cited him for violating school's policy on nonverbal harassment and possession of lewd or suggestive material, Superintendent Tim Swarr said.
Garrison ordered the 12-year-old boy to spend two days at an alternative school where students from several area districts are sent when they get into trouble.
But Swarr said Justin and his mother, Nicole Reyes, refused to accept the alternative school punishment, so the penalty was increased to three days of out-of-school suspension.
``Last time I checked, we were in charge of running the schools,'' Swarr said.
Nicole Reyes said the alternative school was too harsh a punishment.
``It's not like it was Hustler, Playboy or Penthouse,'' she said. ``The punishment doesn't fit the crime.''
Swarr said he had never seen SI's swimsuit edition before.
``I was shocked,'' he said. ``It doesn't belong in public schools.''
Belpre Middle School, about 90 miles southeast of Columbus, serves some 550 students in grades four through eight.
02/24/04 15:11
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate for an outright ban, picking up all of them, "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in," I would have." -Sen. Dianne Feinstein
BELPRE, Ohio (AP) - A sixth-grader started serving a three-day suspension Tuesday because he refused a lesser punishment for bringing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to school, the schools superintendent said.
Justin Reyes had the magazine in the gymnasium at Belpre Middle School before classes Feb. 18, and Principal Kathy Garrison cited him for violating school's policy on nonverbal harassment and possession of lewd or suggestive material, Superintendent Tim Swarr said.
Garrison ordered the 12-year-old boy to spend two days at an alternative school where students from several area districts are sent when they get into trouble.
But Swarr said Justin and his mother, Nicole Reyes, refused to accept the alternative school punishment, so the penalty was increased to three days of out-of-school suspension.
``Last time I checked, we were in charge of running the schools,'' Swarr said.
Nicole Reyes said the alternative school was too harsh a punishment.
``It's not like it was Hustler, Playboy or Penthouse,'' she said. ``The punishment doesn't fit the crime.''
Swarr said he had never seen SI's swimsuit edition before.
``I was shocked,'' he said. ``It doesn't belong in public schools.''
Belpre Middle School, about 90 miles southeast of Columbus, serves some 550 students in grades four through eight.
02/24/04 15:11
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate for an outright ban, picking up all of them, "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in," I would have." -Sen. Dianne Feinstein
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He never saw such a thing? Is he locked in a closet? He's a liar to make such a statement unless he's gay. Boys do these things and even if I don't condone such mags in school, how about some common sense and simply take the mag away and make it clear this won't be tolerated due to the school rules.
Who runs the schools? Mindless, "make no common sense" frightened people (not in every case). Just because there is a rule against such things, doesn't mean severe punishment or any punishment on a first offence must be handed out.
If such punishments were dealt out when I made mistakes in school, I'd be on the most wanted list.
Repeated offences, of course are a different story. Wonder which issue that was?[8D]
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http://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/story/0224202004_new02_SuspensionBegins.asp
Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - Time: 7:50:12 AM EST
Suspension begins for Belpre pupil
By TRACY EZOLT
BELPRE - Justin Reyes, the Belpre sixth-grader who brought a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition to Belpre Middle School last week, starts the first day of his suspension today.
The 12-year-old was disciplined with three days of out-of-school suspension.
Reyes brought the magazine to school and was showing other students when it was confiscated by a staff member, said Tim Swarr, superintendent of Belpre schools.
The student was then disciplined with two days of instruction at the Fairview Alternative School, Swarr said.
Because the boy's mother, Nicole Reyes, refused to place her child into two days of in-school suspension, the child received three days of out-of-school suspension, Swarr said.
"The mother took offense to the discipline and refused the discipline, so we suspended (the student)," Swarr said.
Swarr said the incident is a violation of the school's non-verbal harassment policy and disrupted the learning process of other students.
Nicole Reyes said her son purchased the magazine at a bookstore without any problems. She said the magazine was confiscated before school in the gym and was not a disruption to the learning process.
"He was reading it in the gym, not in the classroom," she said.
Reyes agrees that her son should not have brought the magazine to class, but disagrees with the severity of the punishment.
She said the alternative school houses students who have behavioral problems or have committed crimes.
"Why mix normal mainstream kids with the troubled kids that have committed actual crimes against other children or other teachers?" she said. "These other kids are obviously there because they cannot stay in their home school. My main concern is the kids' safety."
Reyes said confiscation of the magazine and a detention or Saturday school would have been a more justified punishment for the incident.
Swarr said Justin Reyes violated two policies. According to the non-verbal harassment policy, students can not bring sexually suggestive objects, pictures or graphic commentary into the school environment, Swarr said.
"We say freedom of expression cannot be material that is obscene to minors, indecent or vulgar," Swarr said. "It (the magazine) is without question, graphic, vulgar - I think - obscene to minors."
Swarr said by showing classmates the magazine, it could fall into the hands of younger students.
"It was confiscated in the gym where we house all the students in the morning," Swarr said.
The president of the Belpre school board, Rod Hineman, said the issue is that the magazine disrupted the learning process.
"We're not censoring kids," Hineman said. "Anything like that (the magazine) is a magnet for kids and disrupts your ability to teach."
Hineman, who is a retired teacher, said he had encountered disruptive material in the classroom.
Hineman said he is not necessarily concerned that the student was looking at a magazine about "girls in bikinis." But said teachers encounter problems when the "little boys want to see pictures of girls in bikinis and we can't teach them."
Hineman refused to comment on the issue of the content of the magazine because he said the incident could be presented to the board at a later time.
"I'm not going to interject myself; that is up to the administration," he said.
Swarr disagreed with the content of the magazine.
"I'm disappointed that this would even cause a ruckus. This kind of material does not belong in public schools and will not be tolerated," he said. "It's just not appropriate."
When a News and Sentinel reporter attempted to contact the middle school principal, Kathy Garrison, a secretary, referred all questions to Swarr.
Contact Tracy Ezolt via e-mail at tezolt@newsandsentinel.com
This is the pricipal's e-mail:
bc_kgarrison@seovec.org <bc_kgarrison@seovec.org>
Belpre Middle School
2000 Rockland Ave
Belpre, OH 45714
Phone: (740) 423-3010
Main District offices:
Belpre School District:
2014 Washington Blvd
Belpre, OH 45714
Phone: (740) 423-9511
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So now everyone thinks it is ok for 12 year olds to have the SI swimsuit issue.
It is soft core porn, and certainly should not be allowed in school in the hands of little kids.
Naturally, the parents defend the kid.
Society drifts down into the gutter.
So now everyone thinks it is ok for 12 year olds to have the SI swimsuit issue.
It is soft core porn, and certainly should not be allowed in school in the hands of little kids.
Naturally, the parents defend the kid.
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They should have, at the most, confioscated and given the kid 1 day detention. Given the content of the magazine the infraction is still only marginal. Would he have been punished had be brought in the superbowl issue?
Man, I'm glad I'm nearer the end than the beginning. Our country is going down the drain.
Maybe everybody would be happier if he turned out gay!
That seems to be the in thing today. I'm so discussed that I'm gonna change into my teddy and go to bed!!
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