Posted on 09/28/2013 1:15:47 PM PDT by Rusty0604
A 12-year-old boy was suspended from a Coventry middle school after his parents said he brought a small gun keychain to school.
Joseph Lyssikatos said the keychain was in his backpack at Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School on Thursday when it fell out. A classmate picked it up and started showing it to other students.
A teacher confiscated it and before Joseph knew it, he was suspended.
Speaking to talk host Matt Allen, on 630AM/99.7FM WPRO, Joseph’s father, Keith Bonanno, said that school officials have not been anxious to speak with the family. The school’s behavioral specialist told Mr. Bonanno that Joseph is “lucky that he didn’t get suspended for ten days, or even worse expelled.”
Joseph’s parents are especially concerned about the effect of his three day absence on his studies. His father told Allen that he had no absences last year, and that his advanced math class covers “two chapters a week.” Just 26% achieved “proficient with distinction” on the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) tests conducted last year.
In the interview with channel 10, Joseph told Gugliotta that his suspension will lead to his missing the NECAP testing this year.
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One would have to assume that all the parents have common sense and intestinal fortitude. I don’t know how many parents are afraid of school administrators. They forget that it is their children’s education paid for by their taxes.
Why would no one stand up when that father was arrested for asking a question about core curriculum last week?
Don’t think I would want to mess with a kid named Joseph(Joe)Bonanno...
American “education” ... doing what it does best ... political indoctrination.
They are trying to criminalize the thought of a gun.
“guns are bad” “people with guns are bad”
Note to idiot libs: people with no sense of right or wrong are bad, and you have created them.
Silly kid obviously didn’t realize that only the police should be wearing toy keychains.
It’s the school’s loss that he’s not taking the exam.
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