Posted on 02/01/2015 10:35:45 AM PST by smokingfrog
Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his “one ring” to school.
Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom.
“It sounded unbelievable,” the boy’s father, Jason Steward, told the Daily News. He insists his son “didn’t mean anything by it.”
The Stewards had just watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” days earlier, inspiring Aiden’s imagination and leading him to proclaim that he had in his possession the one ring to rule them all.
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Funny, he doesn’t look like a trouble-maker....
lol
Using sorcery in school is not allowed. lol
The people staffing this school system are evidently too stupid to trust with anyone’s children.
Get your kids out of public school. Someday we may manage to reform them, but your kids only have now.
And, that only IF (a big IF) he could find a Great Ring. Doesn't anybody read anymore?
... the principal said threats to another child’s safety would not be tolerated – whether magical or not. Principal Roxanne Greer declined to comment on the matter.
“All student stuff is confidential,” Greer said. She referred a call from the Odessa American to Kermit ISD Superintendent Bill Boyd, who did not return a phone call.
I can make the faculty disappear with the abolition of the teacher’s union.
That’s OK. Even Saruman in the books called himself “Saruman Ring-Maker”, having a conceit that he could make a ring of power.
Goodness....look at his picture. From the look on that demonic face he’s about to make that infant disappear!
Suspended twice for calling a black kid black?
I’d give him $100 if he could make 0buumer-&-His-Regime-From-Hell disappear.
Imagination in public school is not allowed. You WILL conform!
“Zero tolerance” is all about manufacturing reasons to sanction white kids because it’s not fair that black kids do most of the bad things.
First sign of trouble: The town is named after a frog...
LOL!!
Let’s turn this around.
The teacher, by accepting the statement of the kid as fact, that ‘a ring’ could harm another child, also accepted the premise of that ring being a magic ring, thereby a silent acknowledgement of the use of ‘magick’, (notice the difference in spelling), and therefore, owns knowledge of religious practices scorned by a large segment of the American population.
I think that’s a big part of it. Also, many teachers and administrators lack basic common sense.
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