3rd Circuit: N.J. school can punish boy for playtime threat(zero tolerance MEGA barf alert)

freedom forum ^ | 6.23.03 | associated press

[baseballfanjm]

his kid=this kid. Oh yes, that post was sarcastic if you didn't get it the first time 'round. You never know what people will take seriously.

[Sandy]

And doubts left that the courts in NJ are out of their minds

This was a U.S. Court of Appeals, not a New Jersey court.

[Sandy]

"STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL"

Exactly.

[ladylib]

If I had a child in that school system and I found out that he/she squealed on those kids, I'd smack him/her into next week.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

The problem is that one can't move away from this PC crap.

Yes you can.

It's called withdrawing the kids from the POS system (that would be "Public Operated Schools" system...) and homeschooling them.

[lilylangtree]

PC is making it impossible for kids to pretend to be a cowboy or cowgirl shooting the bad guys with our handy dandy six gun, or cops v. robbers. No wonder H'weirdo makes few westerns.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm glad I escaped a lot of this BS when I was in grade school.

[Just another Joe]

Do not threaten what you are not willing to carry out. That's what my Dad taught me.

Your Dad sounds like a very wise man.
My father taught me the same thing.
I had my own 20 gauge shotgun and 13 shot .22 pump rifle at the age of 12 and have never shot anything I did not mean to shoot.

[Beck_isright]

"And doubts left that the courts people in NJ are out of their minds........."

Any doubt that based on who their Senators and other politicians are, that that state belongs more in Canada than the U.S.?

[Just another Joe]

zero tolerance = zero responsibility = zero brains

[rs79bm]

“I’m going to shoot you.”

Where does a kid come up with such things? Movies, TV, Parents? He got it from somewhere. If I were his parents, I'd be a little concerned about it.

[lizma]

Did you by chance have the G.I. Joe assault rifle with the grenade launcher? The best.

It's actually pretty tough to find your son a good toy gun. We finally found one this year on a marine base. Before that he used pastel water guns, sticks, lincoln logs, pencils watever.

Did you hear Annapolis, MD is attempting to outlaw toy guns? What idiocy. The police have already said they won't comply.

[secretagent]

Second, the NEA has got to be broken, and broken well, so we don't have the proverbial 800 lb (Demoncratic/Communist/Leftist/Liberal) gorilla basically running all the educational process.

Separation of School and State. End compulsory education, government certification of teachers - all of it.

[gwmoore]

Darn right. Best idea I have heard in a long time.

Thanks much

Greg

[ladylib]

Maybe idiot judges and school officials should read this article:

http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id=E8D2D9A7-FC56-49D1-A83B-C6070F8D72E8

[ohioman]

We shouldn't be surprised when many in the schools are commie bastards who won't even keep score during PE for fear of hurting some kid's feelings.

[Teacher317]

I'm glad I escaped a lot of this BS when I was in grade school.

Yep. I frequently ooze jealousy when I see all the goodies that the young ones have today (internet, motorized Big Wheels, more discretionary spending dollars than we could ever have dreamed of, power over teachers, hitting adolesence during a time of exceedingly casual sexual contact, etc), but things like this remind me of just how good we had it.

Give me a tennis ball and a curb, and I could make 15 games to spend entire afternoons perfecting. I could go anywhere, show up at anyone's door and get invited inside, I could say anything that wouldn't get my Dad's belt off of his waist, I could enjoy youth without focusing on adult relations, I could pretend-shoot the enemy in a game and not be sanctioned, I could shoot a BB gun in my yard, I could open a lemonade stand and not get harassed by policemen, I could Trick-or-Treat door-to-door for a MILE in every direction, and I could spend HOURS outside just looking around (nowadays, most kids aren't outside for more than 1 hour straight on any given WEEK!)

In short, we wuz free. Now we are wards of the Nanny-state... and that beast's appetites are showing no signs of ever slowing their increasing size.

[Coleus]

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