Posted on 09/29/2013 3:10:32 AM PDT by markomalley
“More social engineering “
It will backfire. Now the kid(s) have an awareness of what trips them. They’ll want to know more about the forbidden fruit. They’ll clandestinely go shooting on weekends. (Problematic for kids in Chicago. They’ll have to use the alley behind their house.)
When will our society finally say, “ENOUGH ALREADY!!”?
HYHEY? HYHEY? HYHEY?
a teacher intervened and impounded the keychain.
You would think teachers who teach our children would have not only intelligence but common sense. This doesnot fair well for our children. These are agenda driven robots and nothing more
This country has lost it’s ever loving mind.
Gun Control Nazis gone insane
“Behavioral specialist”? Schools are struggling financially but they have the money to pay a busybody super nanny? Didn’t behavioral problems used to be the teacher’s responsibility?
As for the kid who was brandishing the toy, was he not “in possession”? Yes his punishment should be equal.
Feinstein Middle School — say what? Any relation?
Misleading headline and stupid of the kid to bring to modern-day school—a two-inch gun replica isn’t the size of a quarter.
But yes, of course, all this zero-tolerance of ridiculous rules is outrageous.
Whatever, besides continuously rising property taxes and dictates to send in hoards of school supplies, gives you the idea that schools are struggling financially?
Had the teacher not impounded it and it had got back to administration, the teacher probably would have also been suspended.
(But yeah, the chances are it was a hysterical liberal teacher as well.)
Really! That is just magical thinking IMHO.
There needs to be a national legal defense organization and funding to defend parents and students in situations like this. Well funding lawsuits and investigations should be used to change school attitudes and remove the anti Second Amendment zealots from the public schools.
Any such tendencies are propagandized out during their tenures at "Colleges of Education". Kind of like journalists are treated in "Schools of Journalism".
Yes. Agree. Further, it looks like it could have a working hammer and trigger. The size of it would accommodate something like a 22 short.
That said, if it is indeed just a nonfunctioning key chain, the matter should just be dropped.
The first problem is that the parents have a very bright child and they put him into a government school. Talk about a waste of talent.
There is enough information about the government schools out there. If the parents have the ability to put their children into a private school or home school and choose government schools instead, then are either complicit or terminally clueless.
Yes, it’s crazy but what is the point of calling it “quarter-sized?” That makes my pickup bicycle-sized.
I used to have a similar gun - it fired a little circular cap. Pretty sure I took it to school, and if I’d been caught I would have had it confiscated, like everybody’s water pistols.
I wonder if board games (there was a great Civil War strategy one I used to have) can have little pot metal or plastic pieces representing cannons?
Public education is the problem plain and simple... Privatization.
Back in my day, I would have been called in the office, the offending item put in a sac, and sent home with me with a note saying, “Please don’t bring this back to school”...and that would have been the end of it.
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