Yeah.. this would really confuse me !!! / scarcasm
Posted on 02/19/2009 5:14:12 AM PST by 50mm
A Northland High School student could be expelled after playing with a Nerf foam-dart gun in school. Devon Smith, 14, said he could not resist firing the toy at a friend after a classmate brought it to class.
"He was shooting at another one of my friends, and I moved closer, and I had a shot and missed somebody," Smith said.
Smith was suspended from school and faces an expulsion hearing this morning.
Columbus City Schools spokesman Michael Straughter said he couldn't discuss Smith's case. But he said the district follows the state's zero-tolerance policy, as well as the Gun-Free School Act.
Under the act, students who bring dangerous weapons to school or possess them are expelled for at least a year.
The act includes lookalike weapons.
Sean Smith Sr., Devon's father, said he understood the rules, but he wondered whether the district was making the right decision in considering expulsion.
"I believe the crime should fit the punishment," he said.
The district said it is allowed to use some discretion when it comes to punishment.
Assault Foam.
Time to register a few school officials and make an example of zero tolerance policies that masquerade as thought.
For what actual weapon is a foam dart gun a "lookalike"?
Take your son out of this pathetic school system, Mr. Smith, and sign him up for a shooting club.
Zero tolerance policies are a convenient excuse for school administration zombies to not have to engage their brain. They claim it's the only way to fairly treat an issue, but what it really does is relieve them of having to take any measure of responsibility and apply common sense on a case by case basis.
Political Correctness run amok.
Time to take back the country.
Yet none of them ever do.
Yeah.. this would really confuse me !!! / scarcasm
Going through life with a pathological fear of inanimate objects must be terrible thing. If it weren’t for the fact that these crazy people are in charge, I would say they should only be pitied.
Look more like a spray bottle of Formula 409 than a firearm. It's a glorified straw and spitall, no need for anybody to wet their pants.
This is about equalizing the offense rates between the black kids needing expulsion and the white kids.
To equalize the rates the school officials make up rules that white kids are likely to break. Ayn Rand's quote comes to mind about government making so many rules that everyone ( even the white kids) become lawbreakers.
There is a **real** difference in the seriousness of behavior that gets a black inner city Columbus kid expelled and that of shooting a Nerf ball, but in the statistical reports these offenses will look the same and the school officials will look more racially even handed.
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough ( white government school kid) criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men ( white government school kids) to live without breaking laws.” ( Ayn Rand)
Ayn Rand
There is a reason the government school gestapo doesn't use discretion with white boys.
Anyone who sends a **boy** into a government school is brain dead! These Marxist indoctrination camps exist solely to turn boys into feminized weenies.
But hey! Most parents themselves were miseducated in their government indoctrination camps. Maybe that is why they **are** brain dead!
That's a very interesting observation which makes a great deal of sense.
Pity the schools don’t have a “Moron-Free Zone” policy: few of their administrators would be allowed in...
This is all part of the Dimocrats’ “dumbing-down” strategy - which seems to be working: I can think of no other explanation for the current occupant of the White House.
Makes me want to go out and kick to jerks ass.
“”I believe the crime should fit the punishment,” he said. “
Give him the chair..
I agree. I believe there’s a conscious intention to produce people with absolutely no discernment, who will put up with any idiocy or indignity because it’s easier than taking responsibility.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.