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Friday, December 09, 2005
 
"Tengo una bomba"

What if the Kansas City, Kansas, student suspended for speaking Spanish was saying, "I have a bomb" in Spanish, the school didn't investigate and another Columbine tragedy happened? Lawyers would be lining up to sue the school, and thus local taxpayers, for millions of dollars in damages.

Instead, the school took preventative action and its reward is a civil rights lawsuit. The Spanish-speaking student's father. a naturalized American citizen, evidently learned only one thing in citizenship class: if you are offended, run, don't walk, to the nearest courtroom.

|posted by Jim on 4:07 PM| Link
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