Posted on 10/30/2009 8:39:38 AM PDT by marktwain
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A Des Moines girl was suspended after school officials said she violated their weapons policy.
Jazmine Martin, 12, brought an empty shotgun shell to school on Monday, a souvenir from a summer vacation to South Dakota. The shell was empty and had the word "blank" written on the front.
"We went to South Dakota and went to the Circle B Ranch," said Chenoa Martin, Jazmine's mother. "There's a show of the old West -- a stampede. Had a gun shoot-out and stuff like that. When they fire their rifles, they do it into the crowd. It posed no risk."
"We went around the building to look for them and they said they don't care if we have them so we picked up all of them," said Jazmine Martin.
"They picked up the shells as souvenirs of that event -- it was wonderful," said Chenoa Martin.
"I wanted to show it to my science teacher because he's into stuff like this," said Jazmine Martin.
Jazmine Martin said she never got the chance to show her teacher. During fourth period last week, she got pulled out of class and was questioned about her summer souvenir.
"They called me to the office and when I was walking through the hallway I am like 'what did I do?'" said Jazmine Martin.
"This young lady brought a bag of shell casings and shared them with other kids," said Randy Gordon, Brody Middle School principal.
Gordon said that even though they were empty, the shell casings are considered ammo, which violates the school's weapon policy.
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What a joke!!! IOWA, your school system is a joke!! How embarrassing!!!!!!!!
Gotta remember, Iowa went with the Hussein.
Communists liberal insane nuts at work.
I love that this story is now in the Iowa sidebar three times.
If it was loaded the 12 year old would behind bars right now.
This wasn't a state-level decision and has nothing to do with the Iowa "school system." This was a decision made by the Des Moines school district, which is indeed making a joke of itself here.
This is just asinine.
We have to remember these are now Government Schools.
Common sense left some people when political correctness took over.
And Randy Gordon is "considered" an educator. Neither statement is true: a shell casing is not "ammo," and Randy Gordon is a useless pantywaist douchebag, not an educator.
Yep! I can’t believe that every school in Iowa has A$$holes in charge of each one. The communist have infiltrated the schools but surely there are some common sense middle of the ground people left in charge of some of the schools? OMG!
What’s next, examining the bumps on someone’s head and declaring “dangerous thoughts”?
You’re not a man in North Dakota unless there is a half-dozen of these rolling around the cab or box of your pickup.
We must come up with a word which will adequately express the consummate stupidity of our “education” establishment.
The best thing we could do to our schools is to ban anyone possessing only a degree in “education”.
Why not get real scholars there?
I no longer wish to share this world with “educators” that can’t tell the difference between an inert piece of plastic that was once a BLANK shell used in a cowboy show, and a weapon.
I do not believe a sane nation would expose its children to such imbeciles in any way, much less prop them up as “educators” in a failed education system, and leave our children to their idiotic indoctrinations and neuroses.
It is time to take out the trash.
Public schools and most privates are all like this.
even in conservative areas like where i live they do this and they teach history with race as the pivotal issue...it gets old.
my 4th grader gives em hell though...the teacher gets challenged
That, too, has already occurred.
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