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Student banned from prom following incident (You have to read to believe)
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Posted on 05/13/2012 4:54:24 PM PDT by mnehring

CENTER, TX (KSLA) -

An East Texas student was told he could not attend prom because of an incident involving a drama department prop.

Center High School juniors and seniors will go to prom Saturday night, but Center High School Student Avery Tindol will not be among them because of an incident involving a toy gun.

Tindol says he and other students were cleaning out the drama room's prop closet when he was handed a toy gun before the bell rang dismissing class. "I realized I had it in my pocket and as soon as a did I took it out to give it to the guy that gave it to me, and a teacher ran up and grabbed my arm," says Tindol.

The Center, Texas school board told Tindol that he would not be allowed to go to prom because of this and another incident that happened in October. Tindol was suspended for three days while administration investigated. Tindol's name was cleared following the investigation.

But a rule in the high school's handbook says after suspensions, administrators can decide what school activities a student can participate in. "I was shocked, I figured they would be on my side," says Tindol.

Center school administrators say they cannot comment on the disciplinary actions against Tindol.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: center; gun; prom; texas
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So the kid picks up a toy gun from the school's own drama department's props and he is punished.

California or New Jersey, I could see this, but not in deep East Texas.

1 posted on 05/13/2012 4:54:33 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
Center City City Hall contact page


2 posted on 05/13/2012 5:01:01 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; one box left.)
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When I grew up gun racks in the pickup were for guns. We carried them all the time. We even traded guns in school. Never thought a thing of it. Even bought and sold from teachers as late as 1985.

We hunted after school before we even went home.

The world has changed beyond my ability to absorb it these last 15 years.


3 posted on 05/13/2012 5:06:55 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: mnehring

Superintendent: James Hockenberry
James.Hockenberry@centerisd.org


4 posted on 05/13/2012 5:07:08 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: mnehring

http://www.centerisd.org/

http://chs.centerisd.org/


5 posted on 05/13/2012 5:08:01 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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Look, it doesn’t matter any longer WHAT part of this country you live in: it’s about the educrats, NOT the culture of a particular region.

They’re libtards, they’re stupid, they are typically the ones who were fighting for bottom-of-the-class positions in college with the journalism majors, and they have as much common sense as yer average avocado.

Time to gut the NEA and take education back in this country. The inmates are running the asylum(s).


6 posted on 05/13/2012 5:10:45 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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Every single moron involved in this should be fired, any accrued pension revoked, and every one should be permanently barred from govt employment.


7 posted on 05/13/2012 5:11:21 PM PDT by samtheman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
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...but not in deep East Texas

Believe me, we got our share in Texas, too.

8 posted on 05/13/2012 5:12:31 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: Sequoyah101

I remember as late as 91-92 when I was in HS that folks had gun racks in trucks in the parking lot and we had a hunting safety in school where some could bring their rifle to class.


9 posted on 05/13/2012 5:12:41 PM PDT by mnehring
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Yeah, this is totally insane.

There was no “crime” to punish, much less one that makes any sense. A school infraction should be punished-where its needed- in the school.


10 posted on 05/13/2012 5:13:13 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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a teacher ran up and grabbed my arm," says Tindol.

Sounds like he was assaulted to me.
11 posted on 05/13/2012 5:14:25 PM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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School Administration = last refuge for despots.

“Zero tolerance” = zero common sense = no discretion = the envy of the Soviet Gulag.


12 posted on 05/13/2012 5:17:45 PM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
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Public school is child abuse.


13 posted on 05/13/2012 5:20:13 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: RightOnline

If I were czar, anyone with a degree from a College of Education would be banned from any teaching contact with students.


14 posted on 05/13/2012 5:22:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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We had a one hour lockdown at my high school and it turned out to be a drama class prop. Last week the middle school across the street had a lockdown because a student saw a strange man with a gun. It turned out to be the armour car company’s employee picking up the cafeteria’s money.


15 posted on 05/13/2012 5:30:47 PM PDT by windcliff
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California or New Jersey, I could see this, but not in deep East Texas.

It is in REALLY DEEP east Texas.

Thangs be a little different there.

If they make enough noise the school will knock it off, maybe...

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16 posted on 05/13/2012 5:31:40 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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The high school near here had an hour-long lock out because two students in the parking lot had airsoft guns


17 posted on 05/13/2012 5:35:54 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: mnehring

What happened these last many years? Not just about guns, Columbine made that happen.

But what happened to cause all the raging political correctness and all the people who are offended who need to be protected? It is not right to abuse anyone but does everyone have to be snubbed by political correctness?


18 posted on 05/13/2012 5:39:26 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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The adult that t brought the gun into the prop dept ought to be fired using the same idiotic logic.


19 posted on 05/13/2012 5:40:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sequoyah101

From the time my Dad was about 12 (late ‘30s) until he joined the Navy he routinely hunted near the Pennypack Creek on the grounds where Jeane’s Hospital now stands in Philadelphia. He’d walk there from his Fox Chase home with his Sears double barrel shotgun in his hands. Nobody thought a thing of it. Passing drivers smiled and waved.

Try doing that today.


20 posted on 05/13/2012 5:50:12 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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