Public Education System Is Corrupt

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I am so mad. :angry: I was planning on starting a unicycle club at school and I got EVERYTHING PASSED. I even got the vice principal to say it was okay. So every club needs to have a teacher advisor and this is what f***ed everything up. I emailed the 46 people who signed up for the club already and I made a safety contract which I printed out 46 copies of. My advisor asked the vice principal if she is still liable (I remind you that I have a the safety contract that nobody in the school is responsible in any way) He then said that there no longer can be a club. “We don’t want the teacher getting sued and we don’t want the unicycles getting stolen.” I know the unicycle getting stolen is beating around the bush because THEY KNOW that I already have a 4 by 8 lockable locker in the band room that I could keep them in.

Unicycle Club is safer then a couple of the clubs any way. There is break dancing club and they are spinning on their heads? Also there are the sports that are much more dangerous then the sports at school. There is football where you can get paralyzed but then there is unicycling IN THE LEARNING STAGES where you can what.. get a scratch on your knee? BUT WAIT! I also told them i will provide shinn knee elbow and wrist pads and a helmet. We have swimming where you can drown. We can also get into the actual school part like chemistry. We have a safety contract in that but we can still go by it. There also is Phys Ed where we play floor hockey and rugby? 

I don't know, maybe it is just me but I think this is wrong. THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO LEARN TO RIDE A UNICYCLE. I think I am going to get all of the 46 people that signed up to complain. Tell me if you have any ideas for me or if you disagree in any way so I can find away to get around that.:p

-Nyle

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Keep bugging 'em over and over and over and over and over and over till they get tired and say okay!

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Uh, you could just teach people outside of school.

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thats not the point! hah… also i get credit for starting a club for college

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call the press! Arrange for all the unicyclists within 50 miles to show up for a demonstration. Have your parents and everyone else phone the school board. Make a petition to send to the school board.

They don’t let the gay hating Boy Scouts use the school, do they?

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Your school sucks. I say, wax the hockey grounds and when everyone gets paralysed, go to the same people who said unicycling is dangerous and point out the irony.

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That’s such a good idea!

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I wouldn’t really call that irony…it’s more like ‘revenge’. Which is still good.

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Take out your own insurance and they might reconsider.

What colleges give credit for starting a club in High School?

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Contact the USA. That is the Unicycling Society of America. You are not the first person to start a unicycling club in a school. In fact the editor for the USA publication Alan R Tepper is the faculty advisor for Panther Pride. Not only do they unicycle at shcool, they have also hosted National and International events. I can get you in touch with him just PM me. I would also suggest that you write an article for OOW to document the process and struggles, and ultimately how you overcame them. Your learning experience may help hundreds of other unicyclists that may have the same desire to start a school club.

I have occasionally run accross another website that seems to help school clubs as well. I will look around and see if I can find it.

Found it.

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So skip the school, and have a unicycle club on your own. It won’t be as good, but heck, 46 people interested I’m sure some of them will learn anyway.

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It isn’t ‘credit’ but it looks good on applications if you start a club. It shows leadership, involvement and all that good stuff.

I don’t think them not letting you have a uni club makes the public education system currupt, it might be for other reasons but it sounds like a few people at your school don’t want to be liable for people falling off unicycles.

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As Bugman said, there are probably hundreds of public schools in the United States that have unicycling either in clubs, phys-ed programs, performance programs or other situations.

Find out why the school is denying you. Does the school own the unicycles? This could be a reason (but if they own them why wouldn’t they want them used? Who’s paying for the unicycles? Is the problem liability? Ask them to have their insurance company cite the dangers of unicycling. There are plenty of insured unicycling programs out there. Alan Tepper, mentioned above, has been doing it since 1982.

The school can say no, but they owe you a real explanation.

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exactement, mon copain.
exactement.

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let this be a lesson to you, always pay the necessary bribes.

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Nah its irony

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I own the unicycles and I already have a bunch of unicycles that I got because they told me the club is okay. Tomarrow I am going to go to see why they are saying I can’t do it.

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While I was in the shower, I then realized who ultimately is destroying this for me, lawyers. No offense to any lawyers out there but I wouldn’t have these liability issues if everybody didn’t sue each other. Why can’t everybody stop hating eachother and stop sueing everybody for the smallest things? Well I just thought I would thow that out there but I still hate my school for doing this. I made a safety contract… I guess in the world of lawyers that doesn’t count anymore.

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Uh actually, you can get a lawyer to sue the school for leading you on. Or something to that effect. I don’t know.

But if your contract is legally binding, I don’t see why anyone should have an issue with it. Blame the school still. I ALWAYS blamed my school while I was still there. Bad hair day? Blame the school. Boyfriend/Girlfriend dumped you? Blame the school! No unicycle club? BLAME THE SCHOOL!

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Could be worse. As soon as I saw the name of the thread that’s what I thought. “Could be worse. They could have to wear unfindable uniforms. They could have to bring every single book of theirs home. They wouldn’t have to buy 22 books out of which only around 7 are going to be used every day.” They would have clubs in their schools. They told me the same thing last year when I brought my uni to school. I left it under the stairs. Genius! Who would take it? The little kids. The janitor put it in the closet. After 15 mins. of looking for him/it(mostly it), I found him, so I asked him where was it. I rode it and secretly took a sigh of relief. I was letting the high schoolers attempt to ride it. My younger sister(actually I’m the youngest sister, my “younger sister” is three yrs. older than me, in Spanish, they’d both be called my older/oldest sister, so I call her my youngest and explain. My “older sister” is 6 yrs. older than me, my brother’s 3 years younger than me.) told me not to let them borrow it, but I didn’t see the problem. The same kids attempt to ride the same unicycle in the same ways in the parties my older sister throws, she finds no problem THEN. That was a little(ok, way too much) annoying. Then everyone’s talking about how I can ride and they can’t, etc. and my older sister tells me never to take it to school again. Oh, yeah, and no one in the office wants me to take it back to school because, get this, their reason, because someone could fall. They let us walk and run, we can trip, and they let us sit, we can fall while sitting. It’s happened to my sister and me. :o Anyways, they let kids ollie over folding chairs at school. Why can’t they ride a unicycle? It’s possibly the safest thing they’d ever do! What problem is there? :thinking: Don’t get me started about the government…and the Anticorruption Prevention Program(de verdad tienen eso asi! doble negativos…creo que lo traduci bien, programa de prevencion anticorrupcion) and it went broke around May and, rumor has it, it’s probably going broke again…