Posted on 11/01/2010 10:22:01 AM PDT by rawhide
HAMILTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A teen's spirit week stunt has landed him in hot water.
Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School Senior Dan Depaolis, dressed in medieval garb, rode a horse into the school's parking lot as part of spirit week.
What he, and his parents, thought was a good-natured stunt, the school deemed dangerous. Depaolis was suspended from school for two days.
The vice principal allegedly suspended the 17-year-old even after the boy’s father explained that the horse was brought in on a trailer and that no one was in danger.
The father tells FOX25 the school compared the stunt to bringing a “loaded firearm” to school and that he and his wife were shocked to hear about the suspension, saying that the 1100-pound horse, named Pierre, would never hurt a fly.
The school would not comment, saying that they do not talk about any aspect of a student discipline.
The family says they plan to contest the suspension.
Yes, safety is the first concern of a school system that teaches that things like sodomy, “fisting”, “gerbilling”, cacophagy, and “golden showers”, are perfectly safe as long as there’s a condom involved somewhere, perhaps on yonder banana.
I pity the fools at this school! Sue their asses!
Just to give a flavor of the town, the Myopia Hunt Club is located in Hamilton and is the only place I know of in MA where one can see polo matches.
I’m surprised the article didn’t call it an assault horse.
Idiots in Massachusetts. There was a guy there once named Paul Revere.
I think the school nazis really stepped in it this time.
Based on your list of school concerns it seems that if the horse had been wearing a condom there wouldn’t have been any issues.
Semi automatic assault ak47 shotgun rifle handgun horse?
I tend to disagree with schools most of the time. However, I wonder if they have a clear rule against bringing live animals to school. If so, he should have gotten permission.
Of course, he should have gotten permission anyway. And I’m surprised the parents didn’t think to ask the school before allowing him to take the horse there. The only reason not to ask is if you think there is something wrong with it.
But I still don’t think a 2-day suspension makes sense. Ask the kid what he was thinking, and when you find out he THOUGHT it was a good idea, give him a warning and some detention, let him clean up the parking lot or something, and be done with it.
My daughter got suspended a few weeks ago for giving the wrong answer on a hypothetical psych question about “what would you do if you could get away with it and there would be no consequences?”. Apparently the “right” answer was things like “Rob a Bank” or “hijack a snack truck” or “have sex in school”.
The “wrong” answer was “Mass Murder”. Even if you are in teh biotech specialty program and the school sent you to the FBI to learn about serial killers and you are studying to be a forensic scientist and solve mass murders.
When horses are made illegal only illegals will have horses!
What a load of uber-Liberal crap. It is good in a way. The more the Libs expose themselves like this, the more they are HATED.
More “Zero Intelligence” policies from a school. This is no longer a surprise.
It's a Sport Utility Horse.
-PJ
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Look. If you can't bring a horse to school, what makes you think you can bring an ass.
Condom on a horse? Whoa!!!!! Now you are really asking for it!
I think Tea Partiers need to expand their scope from office-holding politicians to the politically correct institutions that are destroying what little is left of our culture.
Stop the madness. Save your children.
Isn’t an ass a horse designed by a school committee?
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