Laureen Bethards didn’t like the grade her son got in his chemistry class at Albany High School, so last month in federal court.
As our colleagues at Albany Patch reported this week, the complaint filed June 20 alleges a series of unfair and arbitrary actions on the part of science teacher Peggy Carlock, which took Bowen Betherd’s grade from an A+ to a C+ in the final weeks of the 2010-11 school year. It’s important to note that Carlock’s side of the story has yet to emerge and the school district’s attorney hasn't spoken publicly about the suit.
Daniel Horowitz, Betherds’s attorney, told Albany Patch reporter Steven Lau that Carlock effectively stole from Bowen Betherds: “When you earn something, and nobody disputes that you earned it, and somebody takes it away, that’s theft.”
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A woman filed suit in federal court after her son got a C+ in chemistry at Albany High School.
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Julia March 6, 2013 at 06:21 pm
You cannot compare the behavior of a wild animal versus a domesticated animal.
Californicated1 March 6, 2013 at 03:42 pm
Actually, Pit Bulls are one of the most well-behaved, well-trained dogs out there, to both their…Read More owners and their familes, if they are trained to be that way.
Only drawback to Pits, though, is that they drool a lot, just like any other hunting dog out there.
Back in 2009, there was a story in Berkeley about how a Pit Bull saved her owner's life in a house fire, and all anybody could see was that it was a Pit Bull and nothing more.
If you train a dog to have a nice and sweet disposition, guess what, the dog will have a nice and sweet disposition.
And if you train a dog to fight, maim and kill, guess what it's gonna do?
Doesn't matter the breed.
I've known Dachshunds who were mean and resorted to biting in an instant as I have known Pit Bulls who were nice--but slobbered a lot.
And about the only reason that Pits have the reputation that they do out there is more to do with the viewpoint of the person who believes that all Pits are dangerous to begin with and that perhaps one of their other biases may be a work here, like they hate people whom they believe to be "trash" or "thugs" perhaps, but that's more an indication of their prejudice than their experience with these dogs or any other breed out there.
I've known Springer Spaniels out there that started out as sweet dogs with nice dispositions, but as they aged and their brians atrophied into cancer, they turned into vicious dogs and had to be put down.
Like people, dogs are individuals, too.