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Boy Suspended for Pointing Finger Like Gun
Newser ^ | 3/4/14 | Kate Seamons

Posted on 03/04/2014 8:26:45 AM PST by Impala64ssa

America's kids have been suspended for pretending that pencils were guns, but an Ohio school may have topped that. A 10-year-old student at a Columbus elementary school was handed a three-day suspension for making a finger gun and pretending to shoot a classmate. The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch. Devonshire Alternative Elementary School's principal says students have been frequently told not to play pretend gun games, with a district rep saying kids were warned consequences would follow.

Those consequences hit hard last week for fifth-grader Nathan Entingh, who says he was "just playing around"; the rep said Nathan pretended to shoot another student "kind of execution style" in the head. And the "victim" didn't even see the mock execution, which was instead spotted by a teacher. Nathan's dad seems dumbfounded: "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger." (Almost exactly a year ago, a Georgia teacher was suspended over a finger gun of his own.)


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No doubt there's a need to administer Ritalin in the schools, but to whom? A "level 2 lookalike firearm". What constitutes a level 1 lookalike firearm? If the kid physically transforms himself into a mock AK-47?
1 posted on 03/04/2014 8:26:45 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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2 posted on 03/04/2014 8:28:09 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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1984: Thoughtcrimes.


3 posted on 03/04/2014 8:28:19 AM PST by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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I would have used another finger.....................


4 posted on 03/04/2014 8:29:51 AM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Impala64ssa

some comments on this thread if anyone is interested in reading them.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3129367/posts


5 posted on 03/04/2014 8:29:51 AM PST by deport
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We are sooooooo blessed in America to have a Vice President who NEVER forms his shooting hand into a finger gun!


6 posted on 03/04/2014 8:29:56 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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Forrest Gump is a brilliant scholar when compared with school administrators, IMO.


7 posted on 03/04/2014 8:31:06 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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8 posted on 03/04/2014 8:31:50 AM PST by Paladin2
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Arrest them!


9 posted on 03/04/2014 8:32:56 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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Kid should have used an arm bazooka or a fist grenade.

Or he could sit in his chair, turn imaginary keys, and press an imaginary button. What is the school punishment for an imaginary nuclear launch?


10 posted on 03/04/2014 8:33:27 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Should have flipped the bird and claimed transgender status. He would have been celebrated at the school’s diversity assembly.


11 posted on 03/04/2014 8:34:40 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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I blame the school for allowing unregistered digits in a gun free zone. Not only only can they be used in the manufacture of Level 2 Lookalike Firearms, you could put an eye out with one of those things!


12 posted on 03/04/2014 8:35:22 AM PST by GMMC0987
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The suspension letter more formally referred to his weapon as a "level 2 lookalike firearm," reports the Columbus Dispatch.

Is a background check necessary in order to own one of those?

How about "concealed carry?"

Regards,

13 posted on 03/04/2014 8:35:43 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare; Tax-chick; NoCmpromiz; no-to-illegals

“a “level 2 lookalike firearm,””

Is this the secret device we’ve been looking for?


15 posted on 03/04/2014 8:39:32 AM PST by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day.)
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It’s no wonder that some kids will think that an “assault weapon” gives them unimaginable power, if a Level 2 Lookalike gets a suspension.


16 posted on 03/04/2014 8:42:18 AM PST by DBrow
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We can’t have these kinds of distrations going on in our schools. The “educators” have much more important things to do like indoctrinating our children in liberal dogma and feminizing our boys.


17 posted on 03/04/2014 8:47:31 AM PST by Starboard
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If he and his buddies were playing 'Cowboys Racist White Men and Indians Innocent First Nations'**, would they be suspended for imagined genocide by the school?

**Corrected to reflect the politically correct views of the Principal of the Devonshire Alternative Elementary School.

18 posted on 03/04/2014 8:47:31 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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There were no school shootings when I was in school and we pretended to shoot each other with our fingers all the time. Also used spit balls and rubber bank catapults.

It’s called being a boy. Now outlawed in the USA. Drag queen shows on military bases are okay, however.

We’re done, it’s just a matter of when now.


19 posted on 03/04/2014 8:49:47 AM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: Starboard

Being a boy is outlawed.


20 posted on 03/04/2014 8:50:41 AM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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