[Coleus]

Rawlinson Road Middle School

Resource Officer
Ashley Doster
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Mrs. Dianne Hart-McCray
6th Grade Assistant Principal
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[Brilliant]

I see a Scrappleface article coming on:

"The Rock Hill Schoolhouse Nail Massacre"

"Forty students and a school administrator were massacred by a teenage boy weilding a 3.5" nail today...."

[Americanexpat]

I don't know how many times I have left something in my pocket after working on a project or chore. I hope the family sues the he** out of this school. This crap is getting out of hand. These people are supposed to be educated professionals, but their reaction shows they didn't teach common sense where they got their degrees. This is as bad as suspending 6 - 7 year olds for playing cowboys and Indians at recess using their fingers for guns.

[sweetliberty]

Why do parents keep thier children in these indoctrination camps????

[Between the Lines]

The article fails to note that Wednesday, the day this occurred, was the last day of school.

It is entirely possible that with last day of school threats, that this boy did have the nails for self defense. Also, knowing these kind of things happen, school officials are very sensitive to these kind of things on the last day.

[bannie]

I guess wood shop is a thing of the past.

[redheadtoo]

This situation is getting totally weird. In the last decade or two professional educators have completely forgotten how children think. Little boys often collect stuff they find interesting and carry it around with them. Don't they recall the song lyrics from their own pot addled youth, ... brought him string and sealing wax, and other fancy stuff.

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are evil.

[jonrick46]

I am thinking about firing out an email asking if pencils are considered a dangerous weapon. I suppose if any carpenters happened to walk into the school to work on a construction project, you would have the swat team called in. A screw driver to change out an electrical outlet would cause an incidence response that would have the neighborhood evacuated within a ten block radius.

The school board needs to hear how ridiculous the look.

[jolie560]

The youth felt threatened by someone or something and had put the nails into his pocket so he could protect himslf from the threat.

Do these circumstances warrant using inflammatory comments like "unlawful"? 1- Nails can be weapons, 2- weapons are unlawful, 3-people possessing nails deserve to be charged as criminals.

Assume the first 2 statements are true: Is the final one 1=true 2=false 3=not certain?..........Tom greets Beth. Beth greets Mary. Tom did not greet Mary. (ANSWER = 3 not certain)

[DocRock]

What a coincidence that my 11 year old daughter was playing with a block of wood and seven nails just before supper. She asked me if I could stack all the nails on the block with only one nail touching the wood. I let her show me how it was done and she constructed a fabulous balancing puzzle on one nail in about 15 seconds. I was very impressed and when I asked her where she got this neat puzzle, (I'm thinking Cracker Barrel), she said "My Teacher made one for every student in the class and gave them to us". Of course, she doesn't go to a public school, so nails are used for instruction in engineering and construction instead of assaulting people... and their individual freedoms.

[SC Swamp Fox]

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[B Knotts]

Were these 8d "assault nails?"

The chances of my kids ever setting foot into a government school are somewhere between slim and none.

[feedback doctor]

Resource Officer
Ashley Doster

She should have all the students arrested for bringing fists to school, definite potential weapons. And MS Doster should be arrested for bringing the potential tools of prostitution on school grounds,

[PistolPaknMama]

This is beyond stupid, it's insane! I will drop an email to Commrades Doster and Hart Hyphen McCray, their bosses and their bosses, and tell them so. Maybe they can find a job as prison guards since that's what their calling seems to be.