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Student investigated after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun
KATC ^ | Feb 21, 2018

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.



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To: Gamecock

Squeeze roots can be as irrational as the teachers these days.


21 posted on 02/22/2018 10:48:56 AM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: posterchild
OMG its a weapon of math instruction!

Thanks for the much needed laugh. That was quite witty.

22 posted on 02/22/2018 10:49:23 AM PST by Family Guy (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
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To: Gamecock
Detectives also searched the students home and found no evidence that he possessed or had immediate access to any type of firearm.

If this is a real story, yikes. And if they had found "evidence"? So what, but woe to him and his family if that had been the case.

It was a funny comment. Kids see humor where the real psychos see only malevolence [in their own mirrors].

23 posted on 02/22/2018 10:49:46 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: posterchild; Tax-chick; Red Badger; Daffynition
OMG its a weapon of math instruction!

You winz the Internet!

24 posted on 02/22/2018 10:51:39 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Gamecock

The radical symbol definitely looks like a gun, and there is no place for it in our schools. Banning the radical symbol would bring peace and harmony back to our schools and children.


25 posted on 02/22/2018 10:51:55 AM PST by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Bob

Square, not squeeze — damn autocorrect.


26 posted on 02/22/2018 10:51:57 AM PST by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: Gamecock

The matter was turned over to the Allen Parish School Board for determination of disciplinary action


27 posted on 02/22/2018 10:52:19 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: lee martell

I don’t know there was that cute girl at the airport who made the Texas Tech finger pistol hand sign and got hauled away for questioning...


28 posted on 02/22/2018 10:53:28 AM PST by ichabod1 (People don't want to believe it be what it is but it do.)
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To: Gamecock

29 posted on 02/22/2018 10:54:09 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: Ezekiel

No credit to me. It’s a phrase I heard a decade ago.


30 posted on 02/22/2018 10:54:21 AM PST by posterchild
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe guns should now be call “female empowerment boom sticks”


31 posted on 02/22/2018 10:55:02 AM PST by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And yet the school system and other authorities ignore the real threats! Unfreakinreal!


32 posted on 02/22/2018 10:56:36 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Thanking the Lord Jesus every day for President Donald J. Trump")
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To: Gamecock

Criminal charges will not be filed against a student after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun>>>>>>>>>>>>

It won;t be long until we ourselves will have to take the gun to these liberal fascist f*cks.

One wonders just how insane they can possibly get. Insane enough to start shame killing people who say a math symbol looks like a gun? I’d say they are over half way there now.

Someone needs a serious tarring and feathering IMHO.


33 posted on 02/22/2018 10:57:27 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: posterchild

LOL.

5.56mm


34 posted on 02/22/2018 10:58:12 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Gamecock

Don’t make your Pop-Tart look like a gun.


35 posted on 02/22/2018 10:58:19 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: WayneS

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.
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Spot on.


36 posted on 02/22/2018 10:59:13 AM PST by tschatski
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To: Gamecock

“The student used extremely poor judgment in making the comment”
“The matter was turned over to the Allen Parish School Board for determination of disciplinary action.”
Insane doesn’t fit. Hysterical doesn’t describe it. Demented, stark raving mad comes close. I thought we had reached the limit of craziness when they bounced the kid who chewed a poptart into the imagined “shape” of a “gun”.
They’ve been putting kids in jail for years now, for “making a gun” with the fingers and going “bang bang.”
But they don’t do anything when a muzzy goes into a violent tirade and actually threatens humans. Nothing.
Insanity, until I find a better word.


37 posted on 02/22/2018 11:00:26 AM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: Gamecock

They still teach roots in skrewl?


38 posted on 02/22/2018 11:00:50 AM PST by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: WayneS

Welp.. Leftists did get a ridiculous Russian “dossier” into the FISA court.


39 posted on 02/22/2018 11:01:41 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Thanking the Lord Jesus every day for President Donald J. Trump")
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To: WayneS
The people who run our schools are insane.

You severely underestimate the problem. They are liberals.

40 posted on 02/22/2018 11:04:41 AM PST by politicianslie (Lying to Americans is easy-Presstitutes repeat what they are told to say !and they say it 24/7)
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