10-yr-old suspended for having shell casing (public schools strike again)

Red State ^ | June 1. 2008

[Clintonfatigued]

A Fourth-grader at Toy Town Elementary School in Winchendon, MA was suspended for five days for showing his friends an empty shell casing to some friends at lunch. According to the NRA-ILA (http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3975), Bradley Geslak had been given the casing — from a blank fired during Memorial Day — by a US veteren. He was given two, one of which he gave to his grandfather, also a veteren.

He was showing his souvenier off to some friends during lunch when a teacher confiscated the casing and called the boy’s mother to take him home. He’s also been told he won’t be getting the very dangerous shell casing back.

[Clintonfatigued]

Another day, another public school scandal...

[Tax-chick]

“Veteran.” “Souvenir.” Spell-check can be our friend.

Dumb school.

[ThePythonicCow]

Good grief.

Can the student send the teacher home for five days, for bringing dangerous ideology into the classroom?

[CindyDawg]

Oh yeah...lady? We might have to go to court but you would return his casing.

[Cicero]

I remember when I was a little boy somebody came back from the war and gave me an artillery shell casing of some sort. I don’t have it now, but as I recall, it must have been at least several inches in diameter and quite long—kind of like a tall ashtray.

Things have really gone downhill since then in this culture of ours. These morons wouldn’t know the difference between a cool souvenir and something dangerous if it bit them on the nose.

I wonder what they would have made of my pineapple grenade, complete with everything but the explosives inside?

[Reagan Man]

A spent shell casing is a no-no.

But a Trojan is no problem.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

Lemme get this straight...

4th grader. Small piece of brass (presumably) which was a blank round to begin with. Suspended.

Okay.

Next, MA State Police will go arrest the veteran and the grandpa.

I must be dreamin'.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Kid, get your Gramps, and head for the Principal’s office. Give ‘em Hell, Grandpa!

[OldNavyVet]

This type of thing makes me shudder in thinking about what our country is coming to.

[bert]

The clear message is stay out of Massachuttes. Do not venture there. Beware!!

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

Sadly it’s just not public schools anymore...

[flib]

Correct me if I am wrong here, but isn’t a shell casing nothing more than a cylindrical piece of metal? The scissors the boy uses in art class are more dangerous!!

[swampdweller]

Empty shells are not dangerous...heck...full shells aren't really dangerous....unless loaded. And that's where training young children gun safety fixes that problem. Just think, Teddy Roosevelt had youth gun shoots in public schools. Now a shell is too scary for the totally oblivious educators.

[Fiddlstix]

A spent shell casing????
Good Grief!
Unbelievable (well, almost)

[Tammy8]

When I was a kid we used empty shells for whistles. Some made pretty good ones- or at least we thought so.

[Tammy8]

This is incredibly wrong. I would sue to get that shell back if I had to, and take my child out of that ignorant school.

[swampdweller]

Right on, Tammy8! My dad had a whole draw of hundreds of empty 30-30 shells when I was a kid. I whistled with them and played with them all day. Good memories...or so I thought....maybe I am traumatized by the violent shell to this very day. Anyhow, when I grew up, I reloaded those shells for my own gun.

[bannie]

Recruit: “No brass or ammo, Maam.”

[vaudine]

Nope! You are caught in a waking nightmare--the public education system.

vaudine