[billorites]

I will move Heaven and Earth so that none of my children ever have to attend a government school.

[FreeTally]

a shotgun shell left over from an outing with his father and brothers last weekend.

Hmmmmm.....

"They shouldn't have had Camouflage Day," said Kay Cross, Jonathan's mother. "It's militaristic; it has connotations of violence. He just happened to have a shell in his pocket."

I am going to go out on a limb here and say I bet his parents are divorced.

[RonF]

If this kid walked into the school with a live shotgun shell in his pocket, then some kind of severe punishment is warranted. Although, given this is a 4th grader, the punishment should fall on his parents, not him.

[LibWhacker]

"A shotgun shell is considered an explosive," said Cathy Dunbar, the school's assistant principal.

Judging from earlier abundant evidence of NEA stupidity, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this was an already fired shell casing.

[szweig]

It is idiocy like this that makes me grateful and thankful that I have no children. Now if I can only figure out how to stop funding it with my property taxes...SSZ

[Myrnick]

Isn't this equivalent to throwing a "leather day" and then finding out the kid with two daddies has shown up with a massive sex toy in his pocket? But of course, we couldn't suspend that kid because his "parents" would simply be exercising a "life choice."

[texas booster]

A 9-year-old handing out Certs mints in Manassas, Va., and two students taking them suspended for ten days for drug-policy violations;

I had not heard about this one. It brings to mind lots of questions.

What if the child had been handing out Altoids? Life in prison?

But if the kid handed the Altoids out in sex ed class, would they get an "A"?

I remember from somewhere that a teacher was reprimanded from discussing the Starr Report on x42 due to some lame reason. Probably a desire to shield kids from "inappropriate materials", surely not political correct indoctrination.

I keep a list of these incidents for the times we are questioned about home schooling. It is a real eye-opener for some parents, but many folks already know of the stupidity in government schools. And they continue to send their kids to school.

[pa_dweller]

Maybe he should have gone as a sheep?

[38special]

It must have been on of those "High-Powered" shotgun shells I keep hearing about in the media.

[biblewonk]

In basic training you would get a lot worse than expelled for having brass in your pocket.

[Joe Brower]

"They shouldn't have had Camouflage Day," said Kay Cross, Jonathan's mother. "It's militaristic; it has connotations of violence."

Boilerplate drivel from the Nation of Cowards.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

4th-grader suspended for gun shell in pocket
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/792960/posts

[cherry]

I we wonder why we have such lax security in this country....

we are spending an outrageously disproportional amount of our time, money and expertise in this country going after all politically incorrect "crimes"..

you know ...the biggies...like this little kid....arresting people for buying "Rez" cigarettes....confederate flag waving...and walking too close to an abortion clinic....saying not nice words outloud....geez....

[wbill]

"A shotgun shell is considered an explosive," said Cathy Dunbar, the school's assistant principal. "We do have some discretion for the number of days [for suspension]. We kind of go with five. ... It's not like we really wanted to come down hard on him. We didn't."

Five day suspension not harsh? Boy, it's a good thing they decided not to REALLY punish him. Our prisons are already too full.

Hope that the father had the good sense to explain to this kid that it's not him, it's them. Also, not to carry live ammo to school.

Finally, I wonder if Ms. Asst. Principal Dunbar has ever fired a weapon, or if all she knows about firearms was gleaned from "Cosmopolitan".

[RogerWilko]

Isn't funny how incidents like this have a Zero-Tolerance policy, no matter if there's a perfectly innocent, logical reason why it happened. And yet on the other hand, whenever a criminal commits a REAL crime, there's hardly ever any black or white. It's... We need to know why he chopped the heads off the whole family, after all, maybe he had a tough childhood and it wasn't really his fault!

Liberalism is a GREAT thing ain't it!? It can always be shaped to fit the way you feel.

[Freakazoid]

Covered from head to toe in his gear, the fourth-grader was "a very happy camper," according to his mother, excited to show off his new hunting boots, hat, mesh face mask, shirt, bib, pants and boots.

[snip]

"They shouldn't have had Camouflage Day," said Kay Cross, Jonathan's mother. "It's militaristic; it has connotations of violence. He just happened to have a shell in his pocket."

These two statements from the mother are contradictory. I'm confused.

[pabianice]

"A shotgun shell is considered an explosive," said Cathy Dunbar, the school's assistant principal.

Right. Just like a pencil drawing of a gun is considered a gun.

Major National Education Association Moron Alert!

[Rockyrich]

Drop an email to voice your thoughts:

http://www.pamlico.k12.nc.us/schools/FAA/index.html

[ruger9mm]

In 1982 in my Highschool commumications/English class I gave a demonstation on how to reload a shotgun shell and explained the different parts of the shell. I used real powder, but a dead primer. No one gave it a second thought. How times have changed! What has happend to my country?

[Intimidator]

Ok, I'm probably going to get flamed for this but here goes: I'm an NRA member so don't think I'm some gun control wacko but I'm going to have to side with the school. Everyone knew the rules and he broke the rule. It doesn't matter whether it was by accident or on purpose. If the school lets him get away with it then thats not setting a proper example. Getting suspended for 5 days is not the end of his life, he'll learn to check his pockets next time. Any kind of hard strike on that primer can set it off too and get somebody hurt. I'll have to agree, the mothers comments seem to indicate she is a left winger and I'll bet his parents are divorced.