Posted on 09/29/2013 3:10:32 AM PDT by markomalley
Yet another student has landed in trouble for having something that represents a gun, but isnt actually anything like a real gun.
This time, the student is 12-year-old Joseph Lyssikatos, a student in advanced math who had perfect attendance last year. The seventh-grader made the mistake of bringing a ridiculously small, silver keychain shaped like a gun to Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School in Coventry, R.I, reports local NBC affiliate WJAR.
The two-inch keychain fell out of Lyssikatoss backpack while he was at school.
After another kid picked it up and displayed it to other students, a teacher intervened and impounded the keychain.
Apparently fearing that the roughly quarter-sized hunk of cheap metal was somehow a danger to life and limb, school officials sprang into action. They suspended Lyssikatos for three days. He has also been banned from an upcoming class field trip.
The boys parents arent pleased.
This boy was the one waving it or showing it to other kids. Not Joseph, Bonnie Bonanno, Josephs stepmother, told WJAR. Joseph wasnt doing that so why werent both of them reprimanded?
Lyssikatos noted that he got the tiny keychain at a local arcade with go-karts and such in exchange for 25 tickets.
School officials have clammed up concerning the incident, according to WJAR. The school released a brief statement saying: Because this is a student discipline issue, we cannot comment on any specifics.
Someone called a behavioral specialist at Feinstein Middle School informed the boys parents of the suspension. The parents say the principal and the school district superintendent wont return phone calls.
The Feinstein Middle School handbook entitled Serious Disciplinary Infractions declares: Possession/carrying/use of/threat of use of a firearm or replica shall result in a recommendation for expulsion for a period of time up to one full calendar year.
The boys father, Keith Bonanno, claimed on WPRO radio that the behavioral specialist told him his son was lucky that he didnt get suspended for 10 days, or even worse expelled.
According to the Feinstein Middle School website, the behavioral specialist at the school is Kim Sturdahl.
This incident marks at least the second episode during this newly-minted academic year involving school officials in the United States overreacting insanely to things that arent guns .
Also this week, two seventh graders were expelled from a public school in Virginia Beach, Va. for an entire school year for playing with an Airsoft toy gun on wholly private property. (RELATED: Awful: School expels kids who played with Airsoft gun on private property)
Not “insanity”...
Insidious and clever. Pavolov in action.
Demonize ANYTHING to do with guns, and you automatically create the negative impression in a child’s mind, and instill a fear of punishment.
Think about it - Our children are being manipulated by psychopaths with an institutionalized political agenda...
And conditioning. Make sure the little skulls full of mush NEVER question authority. They are indoctrinated the second they attend public schools.
Glad I don't have children.
Someone needs to buy several thousand of these trinkets, and disperse them where all the kids will find them. It’d be pretty hard for the nannys to suspend the whole school.
Surpised they didn’t put the school and all surrounding schools on lockdown, call in the SWAT team and sweep the entire area.
Just to be “safe”
By this schools actions, and many others, the NEA is admitting that they are hoping to indoctrinate students to fear guns, or any mention of guns. Some of the school officials have admitted that they want to “create an attitude where students would never want to use a gun.”
Now, ask yourself why these same schools and the NEA in general DEMAND that they teach sex to younger and younger students. Right now, I believe that they are demanding the addition of sex ed, to include same sex, to kindergardeners!
Is their actions regarding guns not an admission that the opposit is true with regards to the sexualisation of children? When I mix the 2 scenarios, it looks to me like the education system is filled with pedophile perverts!
(FReepers excluded of course.)
Another reason...
There is a lot of talk about what the Founding Fathers would say about how American culture has changed if they could see it now. I am convinced that crap like this would disgust and outrage and revolt them WAY more than any other sign of cultural degradation they would come across. This is the kind of stuff that would leave many of them wondering if they really did go through all they did for absolutely nothing.
And Cracker Jacks toys?
-PJ
I and several dozen of my schoolmates took shotguns to school during quail, dove, pheasant and waterfowl seasons.
So much for the way things were and ought to be.
We had that happen in a situation in the stupid little town I now call home where a Jr. High kid was carrying a burrito to school.
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I wonder how the term “replica” is defined.
If I were to shoot someone for brandishing a two inch keychain ‘gun’, then I would probably be charged with murder. Any claim of self defense on my part would be torn apart by a prosecutor.
The claim that a keychain, or an obvious toy is some kind of violation of a weapons policy needs to be put in the same context. Otherwise, any object: a sandwich, an odd shaped piece of plastic, even a potato, could be interpreted as being a replica gun.
This isn’t about safety or stopping violence. It’’s thought control, and it’s about changing our culture.
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