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If you were a teacher, would you report me?

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Iget
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So for an English class assignment our class was supposed to write a 6-10 line poem that uses personification. I wanted to test my right to speech, so I wrote a poem about smoking marijuana. I emailed it to my teacher so I could get a grade, and she sent it on to the school administration as well as my parents. There is no doubt in my mind that it was a bad idea... but if you were in the teachers situation, would you have done the same thing?

Poem:
They say its an addiction, I say its a way to cope
It aint a big deal, I just really like to toke
Its just a fricking herb, nothing more than a flower
he has always been there, even in my darkest hour
It gets me through shit, it gives me the power
It gets me high, like im standing on the tallest tower
And it always tastes like fruity like nerds on a rope
cuz I only get the best from the left, west coast

Email reply:
Hi Spencer,

The poem you submitted via this email is of inappropriate subject matter and is concerning, so I am obligated by my position to forward to administration and student services. I am also copying in your parent's email, as they will likely be contacted by administration. For a grade on the assignment, please submit a new poem.

Thanks,
Mrs. Enkosky
May 4 2012 6:03PM
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Bodhisattva_
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Lololol dumbass.
Someone is doing their senior project and presentation on cultivating medical cannabis in my English class. He has is green card and shit and they are letting him do it.
/coolstorybro
May 4 2012 7:59PM
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wynnyk
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lol classic newschoolers. fuck.
May 4 2012 8:01PM
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bangarangmules
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Yes I would, you are obligated to.
May 4 2012 8:04PM
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Afterbang.no
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I study to become a teacher, so far, i would not call your parents, but i supose writing a new one won't hurt, it's school after all!
May 4 2012 8:04PM
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Afterbang.no
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That said before hate, i live in oslo.. no worries bout anything but ADHD and consentration issues, haha
May 4 2012 8:08PM
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bangarangmules
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And I am a teacher, so to speak...certified.
May 4 2012 8:10PM
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hot.pocket
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Whether you're in high school or college or middle school or whatever, when your teacher says "Hey guys write on something your interested it! (blah blah blah)" don't do either of the following:

1) Write about drugs or alcohol

2) Write about something that doesn't have a lot of info backing it (aka SKIING)

There is no exception to the first one, the only exception to the second one is if the paper is an opinion paper and you can write about what skiing means to you or something to that effect.


May 4 2012 8:14PM
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sherwood4099
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I'm not I was just interested in the difference between the laws in Finland and where I live I was merely asking if in Finland those things fall under a teachers legal responsibility to report if they suspect it. Nothing about the OP
May 4 2012 9:00PM
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B.Aussie
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In Australia you'd get reported too.
May 4 2012 9:44PM
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james6345789
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dentists and doctors are, too.
May 4 2012 9:47PM
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Lansfield
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What a stupid idea.
May 4 2012 9:49PM
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feihlination
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report some other "authority" is horseshit, but i am pretty sure that informing the parents is pretty self-explanatory in this case
May 4 2012 9:55PM
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extravert
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you should have figured out by now that you don't have freedom of speech in public high school. As my gov teacher said, "you give up a lot of rights when you walk through the school doors"
May 4 2012 9:55PM
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95959
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You're tacky and I hate you
May 4 2012 11:13PM
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Pool.
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yeah, a kid in my human geography class is doing a project about the distribution of medical weed dispensaries around LA and all my teacher did was make a joke about what hes going to do after the mandatory site visit thats you have to do for the project
May 5 2012 1:48AM
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Jordan
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lol.

You must be kidding; does it make you feel cool to write that?
May 5 2012 2:07AM
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.AR6rider.
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Not only is OP a retard for even thinking that was a good idea, but he couldn't even put together a solid piece of writing. That was absolute garbage. Fucking pathetic.
May 5 2012 2:58AM
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bo0b
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Haha wut? We had to read that, if that story is appropriate, shouldn't that picture be?
May 5 2012 3:12AM
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no_steeze
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i think because your poem was so incredibly shitty coupled with the fact that it was about smoking weed, your teacher felt the moral obligation to report it and give you a wakeup call

teachers aren't shrinks. they have to report shit like that. maybe if you'd written a good poem about weed in society and didn't talk about personal experiences it'd be different...but that was just stupid and horrible
May 5 2012 10:32AM
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shibby
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That's retarded. You go to U of O or Carleton?
May 5 2012 10:43AM
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corona
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U of O. In their defence the song was Bobby Brown. If you listen to it you could see why some people might find it offensive if they didn't know it was a song. So might have been a poor choice on my end, but it's a catchy song and was stuck in my head. But I didn't do anything wrong, so nothing happened in the end except a bunch of threats that went nowhere.
May 5 2012 10:56AM
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samwise
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lolololol I was going to ask you which song it was...
May 5 2012 11:19AM
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LDV
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Soviet Russia reports you!
May 5 2012 11:20AM
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samwise
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Sorry for the double post but I just felt compelled to say that it's things like this poem that make me want to stop smoking so much weed all the damn time.
May 5 2012 11:21AM
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Nathn
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Not only is it about ingesting an illegal substance, it uses profanity.


What a terrible idea, even cool teachers wouldn't be cool with it
May 5 2012 1:48PM
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WI_Personallty
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My area has a blue bus for those types
May 5 2012 1:51PM
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Stickity
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yes i would report you and have you tested for autism
May 5 2012 1:52PM
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armadaski44
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this is the only reasonable post so far in this thread. *troll face*
May 5 2012 1:53PM
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Nathn
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"They say its an addiction, I say its a way to cope"

Implies people think you're addicted right off the bat.

"It aint a big deal, I just really like to toke"

You agree

"Its just a fricking herb, nothing more than a flower
he has always been there, even in my darkest hour"

You have dark hours?

"It gets me through shit, it gives me the power"

You sound like a meth head at this point

"It gets me high, like im standing on the tallest tower"

Corny

"And it always tastes like fruity like nerds on a rope"

Corny

"cuz I only get the best from the left, west coast"

Corny
May 5 2012 1:55PM
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Peter.
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hahahahaha you're an idiot


you're probably in 4th grade
May 5 2012 1:56PM
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saskskier
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Sorry, I didn't realize you were from Finland.

In Canada (and I assume the States, but don't really know) there is a legal duty to report, particularly when dealing with minors. If harm comes to a minor and an adult (parent, guardian, teacher, counsellor, coach, etc) had information that could have prevented harm, that adult can be held legally responsible. This can be anything from suspecting a child is being abused, knowing alcohol will be served to minors at a party your child is going to, to suspecting a kid is using drugs and then he od's. If you don't report that crap, you could be screwed. As a teacher, I wouldn't want to leave anything to chance.

Make sense?
May 5 2012 2:04PM
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caturdaze
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threaDS
May 5 2012 2:43PM
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KillaSteeze
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you are so lucky, must have been such a chill school
May 5 2012 4:20PM
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MNS
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dumbest poem i've ever read. i get it though, you project a false persona to cope with your fee;ings of inferiority.

u smoke weed, such a badass!
May 5 2012 4:31PM
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Poems
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I do. Problem, fucker?
May 5 2012 5:48PM
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Spinoza
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You get a grade for Wei
May 5 2012 6:22PM
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Spinoza
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Fuck me. You write poems or school? And that was a shit poem anyways. Jeez you're lucky you he to rewrite it
May 5 2012 6:23PM
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HamFaceGirl
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It wasn't even a good poem...
May 5 2012 6:24PM
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Stickity
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maybe the teacher reported it for being so terrible and it just so happened to be about shooting up marijuanas
May 5 2012 6:27PM
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207
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Fuck everybody who doesn't know this kid and says all kinds of stupid shit.

I mean obviously, it was a bad idea to do this, but the teacher was in the wrong to report him as this is by no means self harm. Also, who are you guys to say the way he's using an illegal substance is wrong? It's wrong no matter what, people use it for different reasons. I know the OP in real life and he's not one of those scumbag in your face stoners who posts statuses like "I'm so high man, gettin food brb." NS, don't be so quick to jump to conclusions that people are idiots, this kid has gone through way more than all you fags will go through the rest of your life, and that doesn't justify him smoking weed or writing this poem, but let me tell you, he uses marijuana as casually as you tards so don't act like he's a stoner loser.
May 5 2012 6:31PM
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TechnoPotamus
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OP is a complete jackass.
May 5 2012 6:34PM
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Relish_man
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haha holy shit lost so hard
May 5 2012 6:59PM
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Bodhisattva_
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Then he shouldn't write poems and make threads that portray him as a dumbass stoner loser..
May 5 2012 7:40PM
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crazysincethe80s
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That example was a joke right
May 5 2012 7:41PM
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Bodhisattva_
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No he just said lol for no reason and he actually thinks you will OD on weed...
May 5 2012 7:51PM
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pomme-de-terre
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well when i was in college one of my professors bought weed from one of my friends (a student of his) and drinking with some professors was like common practice.


but even in highschool getting reported for a poem (even one that shitty) about smoking weed is fucking weak, thinking back i dont think any of teachers would have ever reported a student for that. in fact, i specifically remember submitting a poem about anal sex titled "alaskan pipeline" my junior year, the teacher thought it was so funny that when it came time to make a book that was a collection of his students short stories and peotry and shit, he put that shit on the front page.


basically your teacher is a total bitch.
May 5 2012 7:56PM
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AlwaysDisagrees
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I feel for ya dawg, so I wrote you a new poem you can turn in:

Reading my poetry, I think
I should have been a pair of claws
Silent, on the ocean floor.
It would be no loss.

Hollow words, a hollow man
Inconsequential and dumb
An emptiness of soul
With a whimper, I'm done.




May 5 2012 8:16PM
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edai
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cant tell if serious or...
May 5 2012 8:24PM
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.brian
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They probably reported you for just being a terrible writer. Did you really you fricking in a poem? and the line about the tallest tower was corny as hell.
May 5 2012 8:32PM
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Timmy.
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teachers are legally obligated to report anything that has to do with drugs/alcohol or violence that might be affecting any of their students... so yeah if i would lose my job for not reporting you i would
May 5 2012 8:37PM
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