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Louisiana student says math symbol looks like a gun, prompts police investigation
http://www.nola.com/ ^ | 2/26/18 | Geoff Herbert

Posted on 02/26/2018 6:00:01 PM PST by BBell

A Louisiana student has been investigated by police after saying a math symbol looks like a gun.

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"The students were working together, and a student made a math symbol of a square root sign, which kind of looks like a pistol. And he was helping a weaker student, and the student says, 'Well, that looks like a pistol!' And he just made a comment [like] 'let's just get to work before I shoot you with a pistol," Doucet said.

According to Doucet, the comment then spread throughout the school like gossip, and grew into a rumor that the student was planning to carry out a mass shooting like at a Florida school earlier this month. Police said that it could be interpreted as a threat when taken out of context.

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"The student used extremely poor judgment in making the comment," the Allen Parish Sheriff's Office wrote on Facebook. "But in light of the actual circumstances, there was clearly no evidence to support criminal charges."

"He committed no crime. He was the victim of the ole morphing of information [phenomenon]," Allen Parish Sheriff Doug Hebert added in a KATC interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: 5ththread; allenparish; arth; doughebert; gun; louisiana; mathsymbol; student
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No charges, no crime committed.
1 posted on 02/26/2018 6:00:01 PM PST by BBell
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I guess they got out of the homework.


2 posted on 02/26/2018 6:03:36 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: BBell

I hope that kid doesn’t run into his buddy Jack while in the TSA line at the airport.

“Hi, Jack!!”


3 posted on 02/26/2018 6:05:29 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BBell

Somebody please sterilize that kid.


4 posted on 02/26/2018 6:07:40 PM PST by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: BBell
Some politician a while back proposed legislation to make pi closer to 3, for the children...

"And, at last, the Indiana Pi Bill, as it had come to be known, was defeated. Twenty years later, a triumphant Professor Waldo claimed "it was probably the Indiana Academy of Science alone which prevented [this monstrosity]" - while writing in said academy's own journal, I should point out - and that "if this deduction is correct then that one act of prevention was worth more to Indiana, jealous of her fair fame as she is, than all she ever contributed or can contribute to the publication of the proceedings of her Academy of Science.""

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5880792/the-eccentric-crank-who-tried-to-legislate-the-value-of-pi

5 posted on 02/26/2018 6:11:34 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

:)


6 posted on 02/26/2018 6:13:22 PM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: BBell

Government schools are evil.


7 posted on 02/26/2018 6:19:07 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: wastedyears

Somebody please sterilize that kid.

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For sure.

Speaking of carrying on good genes, during WW II, anytime a man in his Third Army received a Medal of Honor, General Patton ordered him out of combat. He wanted the man to go home after the war and have children who would carry his genes.


8 posted on 02/26/2018 6:22:12 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BBell; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

9 posted on 02/26/2018 6:22:40 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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Finally, we start to address the issue of Weapons of Math Destruction.


10 posted on 02/26/2018 6:25:36 PM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: wastedyears

If he has fear of pop tart shaped pistols and the square root symbol, he doesn’t belong here as it is a cruel world of macaroni, tide pods, and a host of other evil things.


11 posted on 02/26/2018 6:27:57 PM PST by Blue Highway
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Real threats are ignored, over and over, yet innocuous jokes draw a police response.


12 posted on 02/26/2018 6:38:34 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: C210N

or Math Construction.


13 posted on 02/26/2018 6:43:57 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: BBell

He must not be familiar with ‘rules for radicals.’


14 posted on 02/26/2018 7:02:45 PM PST by posterchild
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The map of Florida looks more like a gun than a square root symbol does, why aren’t the libs complaining about Florida causing mass shootings?


15 posted on 02/26/2018 9:42:35 PM PST by GnuThere
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[[No charges, no crime committed.]]

One has to wonder though IF he had guns in the house, what would have become of him given the unreasonable approach of the police in the first place-

By all rights, the cops should have come to the school- heard that the kid said ‘the symbol looks like a gun’ - laughed about it and told the teacher who turned the kid in to stop wasting the police’s time by calling in NON ISSUES- and told that teacher to use common sense!- However, that is not how the police reacted- and they went way way overboard- It is NOT a crime to state that something ‘looks like a gun’, and that kid should have been off the hook immediately, as dictated by good old common sense-


16 posted on 02/26/2018 9:48:38 PM PST by Bob434
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To: BBell

[[”The student used extremely poor judgment in making the comment,”]]

Correction- whoever turned him in used extremely poor judgment!


17 posted on 02/26/2018 9:50:53 PM PST by Bob434
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To: GnuThere

Don’t you mean mass rootings?
This is just plain ridiculous.
If I were to say “red” in grade
school, would that mean the Russians are
coming? Can’t say “gun” in school?
What if the kid was helping dad
in the garage with a heat gun, caulking
gun, staple gun, glue gun, and tell
his friends, would the cops show up?
I guess history classes are a no go
with its numerous references to guns.
We defeated the British with spit
wads and rubber bands.


18 posted on 02/26/2018 10:35:20 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Real threats are ignored, over and over, yet innocuous jokes draw a police response.

Government chooses weak targets to bully.

19 posted on 02/27/2018 6:03:39 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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Another thread from a few days ago with over 100 comments
if anyone cares to scan thru them.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3634326/posts
Student investigated after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun ^
107 comments


20 posted on 02/27/2018 6:12:09 AM PST by deport
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