Student Suspended Over Show-And-Tell Souvenir

KCCI TV ^ | OCTOBER 27, 2009

[LearnsFromMistakes]

A Des Moines girl was suspended after school officials said she violated their weapons policy.

Jazmine Martin, 12, brought an empty shotgun shell to school on Monday, a souvenir from a summer vacation to South Dakota. The shell was empty and had the word "blank" written on the front.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

My daughter wanted to make a necklace of her first few rounds she shot (.22). Good thing we homeschool...

[rightwingextremist1776]

But I'll bet you can locate more then just one roach clip by going though the purses in the teachers lounge....

[MrB]

Let me guess - this student is actually a good student,

not an “at risk youth”.

If she were the latter, she’d be given a pass, just to “level the playing field”.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

duplicate thread - my bad:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372382/posts

[Campion]

An empty shotgun shell is a "weapon"? What's she going to do, mash it on someone's forehead and leave a soot mark?

How can people as stupid as these "educators" be trusted to educate children?

[stinkerpot65]

Government schools are evil.

[Artemis Webb]

These so called “Zero Tolerance” school policies have got to go. School systems simply use them to punt from the use of common sense.

[Dacula]

uplicate thread - my bad:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372382/posts

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Sorry, but I could not resist. Apparently you do not learn from your mistakes. :)

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Good grief. Whatever happened to common sense?

[Doogle]

happens

[Travis McGee]

We’re doomed.

[silverleaf]

God forbid she should bring a plastic spoon or fork to show and tell- those things can be fashioned into deadly weapons.

Then there’s always the swallowed pencil or marble...or worse yet- the deadly ..... peanut butter sandwich (shudders at the dangers in public schools)

[FES0844]

Common sense, accountability, respect, modesty, restitution...words, just words....they have no meaning today.

[SampleMan]

An empty shell is clearly not a weapon. A sharp pencil, now that’s a weapon.

[fso301]

How times have changed. Kids when I was in school would bring in their dad’s wartime bringbacks for show and tell. In history class, our teacher would bring in guns from his collection corresponding to the particular era in American History.

[cripplecreek]

When I was in school we could take guns to school for hunting after. They had to stay locked in our cars or in the principles office.

[silverleaf]

common sense is one of those conservative traditional values that dragged this country down, don’cha know (sarc)

common sense relies on...gasp...individual liberty and freedom to make decisions at the lowest level of decisionmaking, even by the individual

...we can't have THAT going on in the statist collectivist morally equivalent schools, can we?

[Tax Government]

Lawyers! Make an example of somebody in court, please.

Next thing, crayon drawings of weapons will be weapons.

[Lockbar]

Common Sense? Come on. Right after 9-11 security guards (Homey security) wouldn't let a kid get on a plane at an airport because his G.I. Joe toy soldier was holding a plastic gun about 3 inches long. Plus this same “show-and tell” story happens every year. Last year another 8 or 9 year old kid was suspended for bringing an empty brass cartridge case to school for show and tell. I suggest stop doing show-and-tell completely. Just stop it, for the children.

[MaxMax]

Someone should scatter a few hundred spent casings around the school grounds.
Let's see how they react to that. Idiots.