Boy suspended for thinking about guns...

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Cliff

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This is satire. Or portends the future. Take your pick.

I thought it was pretty funny, but laughed with the same uneasiness a horror movie viewer may feel when hearing an unexpected noise.

Cliff

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Berserkeley, CA December 13 2009 (Neutered News
Service) A third-grade boy in Berserkeley, California
was suspended from school for twelve years yesterday
for thinking about guns.

"I knew as soon as I saw him, gazing out the window,
that it wasn't an innocent daydream", said alert
teacher and California State Thought Police Reserve
Officer Norma Nogunski. "He had this look in his eye
which the CSTP trainers taught us to recognize. I knew
at once that he was thinking about shooting guns. I
had to put a stop to it at once".

Berserkeley School Board member and CSTP co-founder
Bill Brady praised the teacher's quick action, noting
that if it saved even one child from an imaginary
shooting, that it would be worth depriving another
child of an education. Responding to criticism of the
duration of the suspension, he noted that the offense
was an aggavated one under the laws passed last year by
the Supreme Court of the Peoples' Republic of
California. "The kid wasn't thinking about sporting
rifles at all; he was thinking about shooting an
illegal assault weapon", said Brady. "We simply won't
have this; we have a 'zero-tolerance' policy when it
comes to thinking about assault weapons".

The Beserkeley School Board's action did not go
unnoticed in Washington; it was hailed by Prime
Minister Gore as being both proper and courageous.
 
Satire?

Saw the news today here outside Seattle, a young girl (middle-shool age) was SUSPENDED(I can't remeber details, maybe someone else has some) for 10 DAYS for having a tiny 'Tweety Bird' wallet with a little keychain w/ a key ring on it. It violated the school's 'no weapons' policy. In case any of you are having trouble figuring this out, it was the 4 links of chain that connected the wallet to the ring. NO CHAINS.

I sh!t you not. This was on the news here, not an hour ago. This is insane. These people are insane. All I can hope is that everyday people see this kind of insanity and recognize it for what it is...soon.
I thought I caught a hint of incredulity in the voices of the newscasters...they saw it for insanity, I think. That would be a good thing. The opinions of the talking heads become the opinions of the sheep.

- gabe
 
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/thursday/news_932d0f8c902d22d710f1.html

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution

Cobb school calls wallet chain a weapon, suspends girl, 11
Yolanda Rodriguez - Staff
Thursday, September 28, 2000


A 10-inch novelty chain that dangled from Ashley Smith's Tweety bird wallet is costing her two weeks of school.

The 11-year-old sixth-grader was suspended Tuesday from Garrett Middle School for breaking the Cobb County School District's zero-tolerance weapons policy.

"It's only a little chain, and I don't think it can really hurt anyone," said Ashley, a Tweety fan who publishes her own Web site devoted to the cartoon character.

One critic says it's "zero-tolerance gone awry."

"They shouldn't have jumped to immediately suspend her," said Jerry Weber, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

Cobb school officials said the rules on weapons are clear --- no chains. And, they said, Ashley and her parents, Raymond and Carmen Smith, knew the rules. The school district lumps Ashley's Tweety bird chain into a category with pellet guns, ice picks and swords.

So Principal Eugene Wright handed down the maximum punishment after his assistant snapped the chain that connected the girl's wallet to her key rings. The sixth-grader will miss 10 days of class and won't get an appeal to the school board because it is a "short-term" suspension, said Tony Arasi, assistant superintendent.

Weber said the school district may be violating Ashley's rights to due process.

When the school year started, students were shown examples of items not allowed at school. But Ashley said she saw a thicker chain about 2 feet long. After the school showed her a much larger chain, "the student may have thought that something like a wallet chain is not in violation," Weber said.

In 1994, the ACLU successfully represented Atlanta Public Schools student Rose Marie Spearman, who was suspended and charged with criminal weapons possession. She had brought African tribal knives to school for extra credit on a project.

Wright, the principal, did not return a call seeking comment, but Arasi defended the suspension and the policy.

Ashley's parents agree weapons should be banned from school, but Raymond Smith said the suspension lacks "common sense."


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Gunslinger

I was promised a Shortycicle and I want a Shortycicle!
 
So the nasty mean-spirited assistant steals the girl's wallet, and breaks the chain??? These kind of people are why I own guns. They are depraved, and claim they had violence and theft, yet they are the kind that eventually snap and start harming people. Only these guys don't have to snap, they don't have to keep their psycotic urges repressed when they have a school full of kids to bully.

I went to school with maniacs like this. What I said above may sound exaggerated, but it is hardly so. I recieved death threats from principals, was beaten many times by teachers with tenure, until I got big enough to beat them back, and none of them ever got in trouble. I, however got in trouble very quickly when I started letting them know I'd hurt them back, and made good on it once or twice.

The school systems are full of misanthropes that HATE children, and people in general, and want to breed the next generation to be as hateful as they are, for some sick reason I can't fathom.

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The Alcove

I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist

The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"The kid wasn't thinking about sporting rifles at all; he was thinking about shooting an illegal assault weapon", said Brady. "We simply won't have this; we have a 'zero-tolerance' policy when it comes to thinking about assault weapons".[/quote]
I am glad I am out of school. I think about shooting my assault rifle all day. Then I go and do it. Maybe I should trade it in for a tweety wallet! Na...I'll get in just as much trouble over that. :p
 
Maybe those brain dead, wimpy little wannabee tyrants who use their power to destroy innocent children should read a novel by John Ross, entitled "Unintended Consequences."

The Locomotives Continue Racing Toward Each Other. J.B.
 
They are just getting us used to it. Soon we will have enough conformists that no hell will be raised when they do such things, or are we already there?
 
Reading stories such as the chain thingie firmly lead me to the conclusion that the light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train.

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"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes."
-R.A. Heinlein
 
I saw the chain and the Tweety Bird wallet on the news, it looked pretty menacing. I hate to see Tweety getting bad press over this and its kinda funny watching adults getting upset over it but I guess its really not very funny.
 
Any teacher who gets that uptight about something that little is a colon opening. There is such a thing as discression. There have been plenty of times when something has happened around the school (girls with huge nail files, wallet chains, etc...) where I have noticed something, slipped the kid a quick warning, and the kid takes care of it. No harm done and the problem is fixed. Most teachers I know do the same thing. Unfortunately, if there is one overtorqued teacher or admin involved then everyone has to run the entire process just to cover themselves.
Two perfect examples:
I teach an LD math class. One of the kids was in a bad mood, was already in trouble, and made some mean comment to a second kid. The second kid made a comment back about coming in and killing him. This is a kid who would probably start crying if he stepped on a grasshopper. Several nearby kids started whooping and hollering about it so I am stuck having to report the kid. The second kid immediately apologized to me but I am stuck. If I don't report then when the first kid starts listing off excuses he will include " At least I didn't threaten to kill anyone like xxxxxxxx did" I lose my job.And when the other kids go home they are going to tell mommy all about the crazy kid who is going to kill everyone. Same result. What did I do? I quietly had a chat with the principal and assistants and they quietly had a conference with the kid's mother. There is a warning issued so that everyone understands the rules and consequences. Technically it should fall under the 'zero tolerance' rule and if it happens again then we will go the full route. This way, though, the problem is solved without overkill.
On the flip side I am teaching ballistics in physics class. I got the catapult society approved!!! YYYYAAAAHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Sorry. Anyway, one of my girls mentioned that she wants to be a cop and she loves guns although has never gone shooting (?). Several students recoiled in horror but I managed to jump in and turn the discussion through the 2nd ammendment and back to theoretical ballistics. No one got upset, no worries. Frankly, I would like to invite her to go shooting with me but don't know her well enough to know if her parents would approve or if it would be a problem with the admins. :(


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Those who use arms well cultivate the Way and keep the rules.Thus they can govern in such a way as to prevail over the corrupt- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Reading stories such as the chain thingie firmly lead me to the conclusion that the light at the end of the tunnel is a freight train.[/quote]

Dealing with all this stupidity all the time almost makes ya wanna jump into the mouth of that tunnel and "catch" that train, lol.

I think I'd rather let Fienstein do that though.

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The Alcove

I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist

The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me
 
There was an article in our paper today, where two young middle school girls in Euless, Texas were suspended for hugging each other. The principal "rectal oriface type" felt it was inapropriate sexual behavior. If one of the girls had been my daughter, or the girl with the "tweety Bird" wallet was my daughter, those jackasses would would have a serious lawsuit on their hands. Where do our schools get these fools? They are supposed to be educated people. Who in hell taught taught them? Bozo the clown? Seems like political correctness has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Paul B.
 
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