No such thing as an unloaded horse.
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.
I cannot resist. If they outlaw horses,
only outlaws will have horses.
You forgot ‘high-capacity’ and ‘sawed-off’.
It is high time to abolish government schools
Thought crime. Amazing.
I dunno, he looks like a fairly happy horse in the picture.
Or is that not what you meant. :-)
The horse in this story is obviously a gelding and therefor the school is discriminating against differently sexed equines. In addition, the fact that this young lad by using alternative transportation was lowering his carbon footprint.
My dad rode a horse to school every day after he milked the cows and delivered the milk. But that was west Texas in the 40’s.
No such thing as an unloaded horse.
Government schools are a fascist gulag. The real question is why so-called conservatives incarcerate their children so that they can be indoctrinated by the lunatic left and rendered the academic equivalent of hewers of wood and drawers of water (yes, even in those really speciaql suburban dists. Actually, those district probably do the most harm)
“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?”
The school was just plain stupid. There are no “wrong” answers to such questions on any psychological test that I am aware of. The whole point of such questions on such tests is to elicit uninhibited responses. To punish a respondant for their honest answer invalidates the whole exercize.
Viet Vet
B.S. Psych. 1966
“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?”
The school was just plain stupid. There are no “wrong” answers to such questions on any psychological test that I am aware of. The whole point of such questions on such tests is to elicit uninhibited responses. To punish a respondant for their honest answer invalidates the whole exercize.
Viet Vet
B.S. Psych. 1966
Agreed. The subtext is “Everything is prohibited, unless we have given permission.” Many conservatives have deep recesses of their minds that the left has colonized.
Thats the size condom I wear not magnum but horse size
What did the one gay horse say to the other gay horse HEYYYYYYYYYYYY
The Humane Society of the USA wants to ban the riding of horses. It’s on the HUSA web-site,
I watched the video and am surprised he wasn’t expelled - he had a sword strapped to his side.
When they said he got suspended figured that was the reason, not because he rode a horse.
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