Posted on 02/01/2008 8:18:10 AM PST by rawhide
A student has been threatened with a 3-day suspension from school for bringing to campus, and using, a pen with the corporate logo of the Glock company, a large stylized "G" with the letters "lock" inside.
Cooler heads eventually prevailed, and the father reports that he was successful in convincing the school officials to not only withdraw the threat, but also the formal reprimand that already had been placed in his son's educational file.
Note: Read the complete article to find out how all this got started and the great response from the father, including what he has to say about the school vice principle.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Where? and Who? And Why?........I didn’t see any......
for the Nanny State ping list
Soon our kids will be punished because their pens do not have the ACLU approved message.
It’s a PEN! A frickin’ PEN!
Of course, if the pen was advertising condoms or planned parenthood, the kid would have received a gold star instead.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But not than the principal or gun grabbers.
Zero tolerance = Zero brains. From the same people who suspended children for playing cops and robbers using their fingers as guns.
Glock is alright. But my best friends are named Strumm & Ruger.
“I took my son to school and met with the VP. This guy is about 30 years old and looks like a poster child for gay bathhouses. He did apologize lightly, but did not seem overly happy about it....”
***”I took my son to school and met with the VP. This guy is about 30 years old and looks like a poster child for gay bathhouses.***
LOL
What if he was wearing a shirt that said “Kill Bush”? Would that have been OK?
That’s the best line I’ve read in a while.
"I returned the Glock pen to my son to use until it dies. At which point the pen becomes inoperable, I will be giving him another Glock pen. As far as I am concerned, he can use Glock pens forever...," the father wrote.
zero tolerance is simply cowardice on the part of school officials to use their own judgement because of fear of being sued if anything happens.
They can always point to “the rules” to justify their actions, and any discretion could lead to a lawsuit. I’m also sure that the administrators have told the teachers that if they exercise their own judgement, they are not going to be backed up by the school admins.
LOL......in some countries and a few states you could be arrested that kind of hate speech.
I guess soon when some kid asks Santa for a BB gun it will be off to jail for the little tyke.
“I returned the Glock pen to my son to use until it dies. At which point the pen becomes inoperable, I will be giving him another Glock pen. As far as I am concerned, he can use Glock pens forever...,” the father wrote.
How much you wanna bet the school policy will be changed to prohibit logos of gun manufacturers?
My daughter is married to a fine young man with the last name Walther. Will our grandson be forbidden to use his own last name at school when he starts in 2012?
It would not surprise me in this state!
I want one of those pens.
So, I guess that means no Shakespeare and certainly no history books with pics and/or images from America's various wars.
The father is a member over at www.ar15.com.
Pretty interesting story.
“How much you wanna bet the school policy will be changed to prohibit logos of gun manufacturers?”
Then, as the article reads, Teachers and staff at the school who have the names, Remington, Smith, Wesson, Colt, Marlin, Ruger, Thompson, Savage, etc. should all be fired.
eBay has them for sell.
sell=sale
Except in a sword fight. :-)
I participate in an Olympic sport but can't talk about it in school.
T-shirt vendor - competitors' row, Camp Perry OH during National Matches
“My daughter is married to a fine young man with the last name Walther. Will our grandson be forbidden to use his own last name at school when he starts in 2012?”
Just on principle, ask your daughter and son-in-law to name their next son Colt Marlin Walther.
Our oldest used to wear a second amendment foundation patch on her jeans.
They probably thought it was a rock group.
Our middle child wears a Got Sig? shirt and hasn’t been noticed yet.
At least our school district isn’t that ridiculous.
Yet.
I have an exact pen just like that on my desk right now.
Can public school administrators get any dumber?
The logo, not the name.
Yah... seems that should apply to their own books and historical movies.
Maybe they digitally edit out the guns from the pictures of minutemen, like Spielberg did to E.T.
along with the pet cat, Mauser.
I can see it now... BATF agents posing as Santa conducting "illegal toy guns for Christmas" stings. He asks for a Red Rider or Airsoft and your kid gets jumped by a dozen elves wearing tactical gear....
My son seems to feel that everyone is acting normally around him with this in the past. He has not noticed any problems. His progress report, which came yesterday, has actually higher-than-normal marks.
He now has 3 Glock pens and has worn a Glock windbreaker to school.
We are keeping an eye out for any problems though.
They’re just upset at the lack of a manual safety.
At the heart of every absurdity, you’ll find a liberal.
Advocation of murder, incitement to riot, yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater, etc, do not fall under 1st amendment free speech rights........
Put down the pen, and slo-o-o-w-ly back away..............
Kudos to dad! Thank GOD there are still parents like this. This is beyone the pale.
beyone=beyond
there!!
He was jumped by two other boys in the restroom - knowing my rules of "Never start the fight, but finish it" or the related "Don't throw the first punch, but the last one"...he defended himself vigorously, and fought off the two boys.
However, the school has a zero tolerance policy for fighting, so, my son faced three days suspension...
In the principals office (new principal, evidently fresh from liberal training academy to boot) - wanted to know, in addition to the 3 day suspension, what other "punishment" he might receive at home...
Seriously.
Now, I thought about hiring an attorney and fighting it, but, it's a lot of money to go that route, so instead, this is what I told her...(besides, it's cheaper and more fun!)
My son will not face any punishment at all - instead, we are going to the zoo, the amusement park in Denver, and a movie...my son is going to be awarded for not starting the fight but finishing it, and for being a man in the situation.
The other two boys were expelled from the school, my son returned, never again having any "disciplinary" issues with said principal, who has since been transferred out of the district, but don't know why....
I have an exact pen just like that on my desk right now.
Put down the pen, and slo-o-o-w-ly back away..............
NOT TO WORRY; I ALWAYS HAVE THE PEN’S SAFETY ON...
Absolute insanity. But, then again, that’s what the left embraces, as that is what the left is (i.e., insane). There is no doubt in my minbd that there will soon be a social upheaval — perhaps even a civil war — between the left one one side and patriots on the other. My contempt for the left is so deep there is no bottom.
And a PEN LOCK! MY GAWD, MAN, YOU MUST THINK OF THE CHILDREN!>.....
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