All male students in school punished for bomb hoax; girl made similar hoax last year

Article here. Excerpt:

'So given the current trends, it would come as no surprise to me that in the event of a bomb threat hoax on the part of a singular student, administrators – acting in loco parentis (and sometimes just loco) - might employ restrictive measures on student freedoms. And given a pervasive institutional culture of gynocentrism and misandry, it is also unsurprising that they would profile and discriminate against male students in the process.
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"In the wake of a bomb hoax discovered in a restroom in a boy’s locker room at Bonners Ferry High School Thursday, school district administrators will close the campus for all male students beginning Monday. This means that all male high school students will not be able to leave campus from the start of the school day until the final bell unless formally signed out by a parent or guardian."
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Beyond the functional limitations this imposes on male students, the key problem with the adoption of this policy is the very concept itself that it is acceptable to punish male students collectively for the actions of one. This is the same kind of reasoning that higher education administrators use whenever they acquiesce to reducing the rights of college men accused of sexual misconduct.
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What superintendent Dick Conley and Co. may have forgotten is that there were also two bomb threats by women in the same city just one year prior. As The Spokesman Review reports, one of them involves a 48 year-old woman who called in a phony bomb threat to the Bonner County Administration Building on the eve of the 2012 general election. And more strikingly, the next one – as the news group KHQ Local reports - was done by a high school girl in a manner very similar to this recent case, and at the exact same school:
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In addition, there was another bomb threat made by a woman ten years ago to Rocky Mountain Academy and Boulder Creek Academy in Boundary County, the same county Bonners Ferry High School resides in. In other words, bomb threats and hoaxes are not a uniquely male phenomenon. Indeed, it is not even a distinctively male phenomenon in Boundary County.

And yet, here we are – forcing all male students to walk on eggshells under a cloud of suspicion and collective condemnation for the actions of a singular boy. Just as Feminists in higher education have long preached that “all male students are potential rapists,” Bonner’s Ferry now declares that all male students are potential terrorists.'

I emailed the superintendent who made this decision, the state Title IX Coordinator, the principal, and the board of trustees. You may see my email note and the addresses of the recipients here.

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Well, they are really making no secret that boys aren't welcome in schools. I don't know how it can get more obvious.

I think it was Mya Angelou (sp?) who said: "When people tell you who they are ... believe them"

The schools are really showing their true colors. If I was a parent of a boy in school, I would pull him out immediately. Can you imagine if parents of boys got together and made a collective protest?

Schools receive funding based on daily attendance numbers. If half the population of the school was absent, they would be begging parents to come back. If parents said boys will be out indefinitely until changes are made, the school would have to lay off half the staff immediately.

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