A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

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Being American Requires Conformity to an Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Society, Open Cultures, Democratic Ideals, and Mutual Respect.

None of which this Superintendent Greg Poole demonstrates.

Edit: You know what, full on fuck Superintendent Greg Poole. Rules for thee, not for me:

May 1, 2008

https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/pasadena-news/article/Son-s-crash-has-Barbers-Hill-ISD-chief-in-hot-1790103.php

Key excerpts:

When Greg Poole was arrested and put in jail this past weekend, he said he was acting as a father and not as superintendent of the Barbers Hill Independent School District in Chambers County.

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper has charged the Chambers County school superintendent with obstructing the investigation of an accident involving Poole’s 16-year-old son.

The teen flipped his father’s pickup and knocked over a utility pole about 3 a.m. Saturday on FM 565 near Cove, about 30 minutes east of Houston, authorities said.

The trooper arrested Poole for refusing to make his son available for questioning about the accident, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

“Trooper Dunn asked him twice to produce his son, and he would not,” said Stephanie Davis, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman in Beaumont. “He never informed the trooper where he could find his son.”

EDIT 2: Just to be clear, it’s not the trying to cover for his son that is the problem to look at. As a parent myself, I get trying to protect your children even if it’s poor judgement, everyone is allowed to make mistakes, child and parent alike.

What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else’s child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality. RULES FOR THEE NOT FOR ME.

When you objectively consider all of the information, it looks a hell of a lot like run of the mill racial prejudice.

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Kid was obviously drunk, that’s why his dad kept him from the cops, so he would have time to sober tf up for the breathalyzer.

Castrate people like this.*

*allegedly

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We’re on the same page for the ‘fuck this guy’ sentiment but I don’t specifically fault him for poor judgements made while trying to protect his kid. At the very least his son left the scene of an accident, but most likely his son was driving recklessly and/or drinking (drinking is the only remotely rational reasoning as to why a parent would go so far as to go to jail to keep the kid away from police in that scenario). Parents can be irrational when it comes to protecting their kids.

I fault him for being such a piece a shit that he will publicly in-a-goddamn-full-newspaper-ad demand conformity to malleable school rules of someone else’s kids, while breaking the law himself to keep his own child from having to conform to society’s legal rules.

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Look, we’d all do the same for our kids and more, you know that, it’s the hypocrisy that’s the problem obviously, but I know we already agree.

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Wow, a police officer in my town did this with his wife when she crashed into my mom while leaving a liquor store at noon. She did a blood alcohol test the next day, and that ruled she wasn’t drunk at the time of the accident.

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You csn get arrested for not snitching on your own sons location?

You can get arrested for obstructing a police investigation. In this particular case, it appears that the father picked up and removed his son from the crime scene. Possibly also tampering with the crime scene. He has made himself an accessory to the crime after the fact. No different than a get-away driver for a bank robbery.

Also, I dont think holding a father responsible for the crimes of his son

The father isn’t being indicted for crashing a pickup truck. He’s being held for obstructing justice, which is an entirely different crime.

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