Posted on 01/30/2011 4:48:40 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Spotsylvania, Va., high school freshman Andrew Mikel has been suspended for the school year and has been placed in a "diversion program" by police for blowing soft plastic pellets through a pen at three classmates.
"I am currently working with the Rutherford Institute, fighting the insane madness of our local school administration and board," wrote the boy's father, also named Andrew Mikel, to WND.
"In early December, my son shot what amounts to a spitwad. They classified the spit wad as a weapon, expelled my son from school the rest of the year, filed assault charges on him with the sheriff's department, mandated that he take 'substance-abuse counseling' and 'anger-management counseling' and must do 24 hours of community service."
Originally suspended for 10 days after the Dec. 10 incident, Andrew later was suspended for the balance of the school year following a Dec. 21 hearing before the Spotsylvania County school board. His criminal charges will be expunged if he completes the diversion program for first-time offenders.
"The school board feels that they gave the child and his father a fair hearing and handled the situation appropriately," said Mark Cole, a Spotsylvania delegate to the Virginia general assembly. He intervened with the school board and sheriff's department on the boy's behalf. "They said that if the child hit someone in the eye it could have damaged their eye. They suspended the child for the rest of the school year, which I think is excessive."
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"We were able to present our side, that the punishment doesn't fit the student code of conduct," said Mikel's legal counsel, Andrew Flusche. "In my opinion they have shoehorned in this definition of weapon that triggers harsher punishment."
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HA
Your poor wife.At least you didn’t say you laughed at her in front of your child. Did it make you feel better to tell us all how you and your son feel about her and a song she enjoys? Has anyone ever asked you, “Do you have to tell everything you know”?
Geez. My brother would probably be serving a life sentence in a state penitentary. Years ago we were at a family restaurant, mom and dad sitting across from each other in a booth and 4 kids were on either side of them. Bro shot a big juicy extra-spitty spitball at me when my head was turned but I saw it out of the corner of my eye and jerked my head back sideways. We were laughing but he froze. I turned and looked behind me. An elderly woman had a fork of food suspended in midair halfway up to her mouth.
The spitball was stuck on a lens of her eyeglasses.
Those school admins should be jailed. They are taking all the fun out of childhood.
So many so-called “educators” are embarrassments to thinking humanity. I have “zero tolerance” for their kind.
In high school chemistry, the guys on the back row would heat up nickles using the bunsen burner and toss them in the hallways when they were full of students changing classes. Good times...
They shouldn’t be jailed. They should just be ignored. Obliviated from the educational landscape. They aren’t needed anymore. They are obsolete, but still dangerous (this newest incident proves that). And let me say again — they aren’t needed anymore. Bye Bye. Go away. There are other educational venues. Through technology, we can choose who teaches our children. Parents can decide on the curriculum. There are several choices — traditional, progressive, classical, whatever the parents feel is best for their children. We can access the most brilliant minds on the face of the earth through technology. We don’t need unionized flunky teachers or butt kissing administrators who are more concerned with their pensions than the kids they are supposed to serve (but don’t) — it’s game changer time.
Actually this doesn’t surprise me at all coming from George Orwells Virginia.
Back in the 80’s I was expelled from a school in Va.
It was a few days after New Years and sold a friend some leftover fire crackers.
The charge “unauthorized transportation, sale and delivery of explosives to a minor”
Thankfully there were some grownups on the school board that reduced it to 3 days suspension.
Next year proved as bad.
After washing and waxing my car, a rag had snagged the windshield washer sprayer nozzle and turned it sideways.
Later while cruising the Va Beach strip found myself completely surrounded by cops, GUNS DRAWN, dragged out of the car to the pavement, handcuffed, and arrested for assaulting a police officer with a “deadly windshield wiper sprayer” after the sprayer had inadvertly sprayed a coop on the sidewalk.
I could go on with other incidents as well.
Needless to say I have nothing good to say about the state.
Lighten up Francis, I am the wife. He was calling me gay and we were joking around, having fun.
I guess you don’t want to hear about the time we fell on the floor laughing when my oldest son (now 33) complained that we did not have any left handed knives; or when my youngest son asked if he needed to peel the egg before he boiled it (he was 12).
Better yet, you might not want to know how my sisters, brother and I laugh our asses off to this day remembering when we and the rest of the crowd thought something had died while walking back to the car after the lighting of the Rich’s Christmas Tree (1968). Turned out Grandma farted.
She would have gotten away with it had she not had that guilty smile on her face. To this day someone will always say “Hey! Do you remember when Grandma farted near the railroad tracks?”
We have more fun laughing at ourselves because we do not take some things too seriously.
Warning: Parents BEWARE!
If you institutionalize your child in a prison-like government "school" ( really indoctrination center) he may come home with a lifetime record as a felon for shooting soft plastic pellets!
Question: Is the free babysitting worth it?
OMG! Now it’s pea-shooters! Next it will be spit wads. Then...it will be mommy and daddy’s guns taken away from the thought police.
Glad I bought a new S&W 9mm at Cabela’s yesterday. I might have to use it against “gun grabbers” very soon.
No. But you never hear other parents complain about this type of treatment if their kid is not involved. They’re happy it didn’t happen to their kid, and they keep their mouths shut, hoping for the best, and dreading the worst — “Oh please God, let my kid get through the next how many years of this absolute insanity without getting a felony record for blowing styrofoam pellets through a straw or taking a real gun (not a “finger” gun or a picture of a gun, but a real gun), and blasting the whole administrative office staff including the superintendent of this nut house into oblivion.”
It’s not worth walking on eggs for 12 years for a crappy public school education. There are better options.
I have *NO* confidence that these men and women at these 4 government agencies will uphold their oath to defend the Constitution against *domestic* enemies. They will **willingly** attempt to collect our guns and line us up for the cattle cars.
I am reminded of Elian Gonzoles. The day after the raid the SWAT and support personel held a picnic to celebrate.
Need to fire at least 75% of all school admin and school boards in this country.
People who complain about teachers and their unions are missing the real problem in schools: The people running them. These are the same people who help teachers unions do what they do....along with idiot stuff they do to students that we keep reading about on FR.
Fire School Admin and school boards....you will never fix the schools until these people are fired
I’m gonna have to share this story with my son who shoots spitballs at classmates who are smacking. He shoots the spitball at/into their mouths. He doesn’t miss either. He REALLY hates to hear smacking! Or see people talking with their mouths full. We have told son that his “talents” are going to get him in trouble if he doesn’t watch out. Crazy world we live in!
Thanks for sharing your spitwad story. Hilarious!
Don't you love what's happened to that word?
The faggots pressed it on polite [politically correct] society as a replacement for queer
. But allow a generation or two for the human language instinct to to work, and voila!, gay
now means queer
! LOL!
Gives “The Gay ‘90’s” a whole new meaning. :-)
unreal ..
Wow! Throwing an eraser would probably bring a death sentence.
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