BBM
I feel the same way and I know my dad would have grounded me forever.
One thing that I have been wondering is if Trayvon was in jeopardy of failing the school year because of all the days he was suspended? When a student is suspended, it is my understanding that those days are considered unexcused absences. (At least that is how it was when my son's were in school.) Since the days are unexcused, the school work missed can't be made up and the student would fail any missed test. On top of that, the days suspended count towards the amount of days a student may be absent in the grading period. I'm not sure what the school policy is at the school Trayvon attended, but where my son's went to school being suspended for 10days would have put a student in jeopardy of failing that grading period or possibly the school year. I know things change, but I just ask some friends with high school aged children and there still is an amount of days a student can be absent in one grading period and for the entire school year. At our local school its 7 days in a 9 week grading period. Unless there is a doctors excuse a student can be held back. Maybe someone knows the policy for suspended days and the attendance policy at Trayvon's school.
Doesn't really matter, does it? Trayvon won't be completing 11th grade, won't ever start his Senior year. Wont ever go to College and realize his dreams. We don't have anything but unconfirmed leaks about the suspension (and I don't think there was more than one, I think it was one incident with multiple issues).
But what we do know for sure is Trayvon celebrated his 17th birthday in February, went horseback riding with his Mom on her birthday soon after that. And then he went to Sanford with his Dad, was bored and went to 7-11. And then he was unfortunate enough to catch the jaded eye of George Zimmerman. He was mistaken for "one of those aholes that always get away" and minutes later lay face down on the grass with a bullet in his chest.
MOO.