Posted on 03/04/2014 8:26:45 AM PST by Impala64ssa
America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.
Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)
I was about to post, “But I don’t see your cat!” and then I saw him.
I have never been to HOLY Toledo, Batman. I think they call it Toledistan these days, anyway.
We have two seasons, here: Christmas and summer. ;o]
Yay, kittehs!
Ungh. 59 degrees, and it’s payday. GAH!
I will do what I do online, then head for Walmart for a couple of money orders and then I’m gone again.
As usual, I hardly slept last night, which is “normal” for the night before payday, and I don’t know why. It certainly won’t change things!
I think it’s now Hole -ee.
Potholes, sinkholes, and other assorted holes in Toledostan.
The most important thing is the KITTEH!!
We have a forecast high of 71.
Anoreth has gone to Target. Piper is searching for her.
Winter, mammoths may be here.
Spring, mud rain and not much else.
Summer, mud rain heat and not much else.
Fall, Leaves rain mud sometimes heat sometimes cold and not much else.
Only difference is levels of bug infesteation and tourists.
It wasn’t a gun, it was a power drill.
Poor Piper...found her “Mom” and lost her again...confused, she is.
I was going to shop for groceries, but I will delay it a day or two and see what the wallet looks like. I’ll just get the money orders and a few things to tide me over.
It’s supposed to be 90 today. I didn’t catch all the forecast, but I’m thinking it will soon be cooler...those few days of winter that hang around until they’re used up, ya know.
I hope that he grows, physically and mentally, into a fine man.
Oh! I thought it was Christmas and Sweltering. But what do I know? ;-)
Somewhat.
One responds to bug spray, the other responds to mace.
Cheated death again. Elen drove me to Asuncion’s to leave some music pages and to the Atkinsons’ to leave some lost-and-found items from Envirothon.
Anoreth is trying to turn the various non-functional bicycles in the garage into a single functional one.
“Anoreth is trying to turn the various non-functional bicycles in the garage into a single functional one.”
With expert assistance from Piper?
No, Piper has been hanging around Bill hoping he’ll drop food.
Ah, Piper has learned.
TC, don’t you have enough Piper hair by now to knit Anoreth a nice sweater?
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