Posted on 02/22/2018 10:39:46 AM PST by Gamecock
Criminal charges will not be filed against a student after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun.
On Tuesday afternoon, Allen Parish Sheriff's Office deputies investigated an allegation of terrorist threats at Oberlin High School, according to the department's Facebook page. The investigation revealed that a student was completing a math problem and drew the sign for square root. Deputies say another student made a comment that the symbol looked like a gun and several other students made similar comments. According to investigators, the comment made by the student in question "could" sound like a threat when taken out of context.
Detectives also searched the students home and found no evidence that he possessed or had immediate access to any type of firearm. Investigators say there was no evidence that the student had any intent to commit harm to students or faculty.
"The student used extremely poor judgment in making the comment, but in light of the actual circumstances, there was clearly no evidence to support criminal charges," stated on the Allen Parish Sheriff's Office Facebook page.
The matter was turned over to the Allen Parish School Board for determination of disciplinary action.
No, its a graph of the earth’s temperatures, another highly political subject for students.
The people who run our schools are insane.
That’s racist!
No, that’s sexist!
Nah, that mathist!
Remember a boy got in trouble for chewing a pop tart into the shape of a gun?
Evidently even saying the word “gun” is now a crime in gender-dysporia world.
Apparently not to any math textbooks, either.
OMG its a weapon of math instruction!
Geez, what is next? Snowflakes fearing decapitation from a paper cut?
OMG!....The key phrase is ‘the student made a comment’.
A comment is not necessarily a threat. It is often nothing more than an observation. My guess is if the average female student had said this, nothing more than a few giggles would have been the result.
“Hey! That looks like a gun!”
Call in the cops. Yeah, that teacher sounds like one of the ones we want to be carrying.
If they were able to get a search warrant based on the kid commenting that a square-root symbol looks like a gun, then apparently some law-enforcement agencies and some judges are also insane. The judge who issued such a warrant should be removed from the bench, and the law enforcement officer(s) who asked for the warrant should be fired.
Of course, if the kid and/or his parents consented to a warrantless search then they are not too bright.
Looks more like a scythe.
It looks more like an assault operator to me.
A civilization cannot survive such institutionalized stupidity.
Nice!
Post of the week!
It looks exactly like Marco Rubio.
He’s right! And I have long advocated the elimination of the minus sign, as it looks like a knife.
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