Posted on 05/08/2017 2:35:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
TRENTON, OH (FOX19) -
An Edgewood Middle School student was handed a 10-day suspension for “liking” a picture of a gun on Instagram with the caption “ready."
The parents of Zachary Bowlin posted a picture of the intended suspension notice which read, “The reason for the intended suspension is as follows: Liking a post on social media that indicated potential school violence.”
"I was livid, I mean, I’m sitting here thinking ‘you just suspended him for ten days for liking a picture of a gun on a social media site," father Marty Bowlin said. "He never shared, he never commented, he never made a threatening post… anything on the site, just liked it."
The picture in question is of an airsoft gun, and according to the students’ parents, their child didn’t comment on the post but simply liked the picture.
"I liked it, scrolling down Instagram at night about 7, 8 o’clock I liked it," Zacahry said. "The next morning they called me down [to the office] patted me down and checked me for weapons."
Since receiving the notice, the family said the school has dropped the suspension and there will be no repercussions for the child’s actions.
Friday morning an email went out to parents stating:
“Yesterday evening school officials were made aware to an alleged threat of a student bringing a gun to school. We act on any potential threat to student safety swiftly and with the utmost importance. This morning, the alleged threat was addressed and we can assure you that all students at Edgewood Middle School are safe and school will continue as normal. Thank you”
Below is the statement given to FOX19 NOW by Superintendent Russ Fussnecker:
“Concerning the recent social media posting of a gun with the caption “Ready”, and the liking of this post by another student, the policy at Edgewood City Schools reads as follows:
The Board has a “zero tolerance” of violent, disruptive, harassing, intimidating, bullying, or any other inappropriate behavior by its students.
Furthermore, the policy states:
Students are also subject to discipline as outlined in the Student Code of Conduct that occurs off school property when the misbehavior adversely affects the educational process.
As the Superintendent of the Edgewood City Schools, I assure you that any social media threat will be taken serious including those who “like” the post when it potentially endangers the health and safety of students or adversely affects the educational process.”
No wonder that certain pars of the nation is in a downward spiral.
The suspender should be hunted down and shot
Was this posted on his private home computer or was it on a school computer? The school obviously has tax dollars to waste on computer monitoring of each and every student and employee. The local taxpayers need to put a stop to this.
Home. At night. In his own bedroom..................
I was totally against school violence until I read this article.
Words to describe the people running our public education system defy me...
Spoken like a true bolshevik.
I asked because some schools give computers to students to take home to do their homework.
At home not on school property. Those posing as “educators” are some of the most brain dead humans to ever suck air on a pair of lungs. The person suspending this kid needs to be publicly outed for their stupidity and not allowed around children. If they have kids relatives need to intervene, they are in danger of the stupidity gene or environmental learning of stupidity occurring.
If I’m this kid I “like” that gun on instagram every damn day foreverafter. The school has no right to act here.
Way back in the ‘70s I had a h.s. class in “communications” for which we were each to give a reading from a book, of our choosing. I read a scene from the novel “The Odessa File” in which a Mossad agent faces down the evil Nazi Roschmann and shoots him between the eyes when the Nazi goes for his gun. I shudder to think of what the libtards would now do to my young self, merely for reading a scene from a novel in which “Good triumphs over Evil”..... ohhh, but it was a gun and a shooting!!
No, actually they are useful idiots facilitating the curricula designed by the psychopathic sodomites which is brilliant and will destroy the Minds (souls) of ANY ONE in their system of mass indoctrination. It is intentionally destroying agency and brain integration in our children so they are just dumb, ignorant programmed “bots” who repeat the Mantra being programmed into them-—like Christianity is evil and bigoted, guns are evil, sodomy is a virtue, Boys can be girls, group-(non)-think is a virtue, etc.....
They need to flip 2000 years of ethics back to the pagan, satanic ethics of slave cultures. Vice creates slaves only (outer control) Virtue (inner control) is needed for Freedom and these institutions deliberately destroy virtue formation in all children, with their lies and system which only embeds dependency and ignorance and stupidity (no common sense or natural instincts will be allowed to remain).
It is pure genius-—and brought over by Horace Mann and the sodomite communist John Dewey to force Classical Christian curricula OUT as they forced moral relativism (Marxism/socialism/Masonry slavery) so they could destroy the integration of the minds and corrupt the soul of children. It is intention and will create a bunch of non-thinking morons who are “happy” with slavery/socialism/communism.
The boy deserved suspension.
He didn’t demonstrate acceptable, government approved, group think.
Always have two internet IDs,
One “official one” with your name in it etc.
One “Nome De Plume” which uses an alias and cannot be traced back or linked to the official one.
It’s sad but it has gotten down to this.
The school should be accused and sued for bullying
One way this could backfire on the stupid liberal fools...
I remember when I was young being told time and time again not to do something...Don’t do “this”...Don’t do “this”....
I could not wait till I got older and was able to do “this”....
They know exactly what they are doing. It's behavioral modification.
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