Booby trap your locked toolboxes.
Posted on 03/01/2006 9:16:01 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
2 More North Greene Students Expelled; Rifles Found In Truck
By: By Bill Jones/Staff Writer
Source: The Greeneville Sun 02-28-2006
Dr. Joe Parkins, director of the Greene County School System, confirmed on Monday that two more North Greene High School students were expelled from school recently after a pair of hunting rifles were found in their truck’s locked toolbox while it was parked at the school.
Dr. Parkins said in an interview that he only became aware of the hunting rifle incident last Friday afternoon, although it apparently occurred “about the same time” that another NGHS student was found to have an unloaded 9 mm pistol locked inside his truck at the school on Feb. 16.
The student was expelled and faces charges in Juvenile Court
The Greeneville Sun reported the incident involving the pistol last Friday after a concerned citizen alerted the newspaper to the incident, and a report filed by North Greene’s School Resource Officer (SRO) surfaced at the Greene County Sheriff’s Department.
But no one mentioned that a separate discovery of hunting rifles in a vehicle parked at the school had been made at about the same time.
No report on the second incident had surfaced at the Greene County Sheriff’s Department as of Monday.
Parkins said on Monday afternoon that, unlike the incident involving a pistol, there are no allegations that any threats were made to other students by the two boys whose hunting rifles were found locked in a toolbox in the truck they had used to travel to school.
Parkins said he was told that the hunting rifles were in the toolbox because the two boys had been “working on them.”
Another student apparently became aware that the boys had brought the rifles to school and told an assistant principal, who searched the boys’ truck and found the firearms.
As was the case with the youth in whose truck a pistol was found by school authorities on Nov. 16, Parkins said, the two boys found to have brought hunting rifles to school were expelled from school under the state’s “zero-tolerance” law concerning firearms on school property.
In the case of the two boys in whose truck the hunting rifles were found, Parkins said, he did not know if any criminal charges had been filed in Juvenile Court.
Capt. John Huffine, the Greene County Sheriff’s Department’s chief detective, said on Monday afternoon that he had been unaware of the second recent discovery of firearms at North Greene High School.
But he also noted that he had been unaware of the first incident as well until a reporter raised the issue.
Discipline Hearing Today
Parkins said school authorities, in response to requests from the parents of all three boys, had agreed to convene a meeting of the Greene County School System’s Discipline Hearing Authority (DHA) at 1 p.m. today.
The county director of schools said the DHA is a panel of four school system administrators and a “community member,” who convene to hear discipline cases, determine the severity of the incident involved and make a punishment recommendation to the director of schools.
Parkins explained that once he receives a recommendation from the DHA panel, he can “modify” the year-long expulsions from school to a lesser punishment, if the circumstances justify such an action.
On Monday afternoon, Parkins said he expected that a decision regarding the year-long expulsions of all three students would be made by late this afternoon.
School property.
I've often wondered how the "apple sometimes does fall far from the tree" in certain situations. My best guess to your family member's example is that the sons somehow consider their very own father to be uncool and unhip based on the "lessons" repetitiously beaten into their young skulls for 180 days per academic year. Parents have to spend almost every other waking moment ensuring their kids aren't dangerously being morphed into something else...
I would think that women would be among those leading the charge into making certain that boys remained boys. I'm not even a parent and I recognize there is a significant problem with regard to feminized boys who have lost their bearing. It seems to have reached a critical level in the past decade or so.
~ Blue Jays ~
Booby trap your locked toolboxes.
Way back when I was in high school 1961-64, if a student brought a rifle, pistol or hunting knife to school, it meant either hunting season was starting or the student was in leathercraft class. No panics in those days although we often heard of shootings or knifings at some other school always far, far away.
My uncle walked to high school in NYC in the mid-1960's carrying a rifle over his shoulder, and stored it in his locker, as did the rest of the members of his his school rifle team.
WTF is happening to this country that these kids could be treated this way?
This is happening thanks to the brady gun control freaks.
This country is starting to really, really suck
You can find out what the NRA is doing by becoming a member.
I have become a member in both 2000 and 2004 during the election cycle, even tote the card in wallet still. I need to rejoin now, so I can add funds to my neighbor to the north (Harold Ford JR.) losing his senate seat. Rumour is Jr might run for mayor of Memphis if he doesn't win.
Thanks for the help. The NRA should have 80 million members instead of four million.
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