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1 posted on 09/23/2010 9:24:55 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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More educational idiocy on parade.


2 posted on 09/23/2010 9:30:38 AM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, get a pit bull.)
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Patrick Halpin called police Wednesday to say there were weapons on school property because teachers at the Grace Breckwedel Middle School had lighters in the building.

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Really? I wouldn’t be too sure about that. If school policy prohibits lighters for EVERYONE (kids and teachers) then this is a weak claim.

In any event. The child and his father need further indoctrination into the wonderfulness of a zero tolerance school policy.

(barf)


3 posted on 09/23/2010 9:30:38 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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This story neglects to mention the more serious and widespread threat to our schools. Sticks! On nearly every schoolyard in America, one can find these tools of Satan lurking, which can be rubbed together by children to spark violent conflagrations!

What’s even more devious, is that sticks can be easily sharpened on the asphalt of the outdoor basketball courts to fashion deadly weapons. Even without sharpening, a heavy, blunt stick, can easily crush the delicate skulls of our innocents. Clearly sticks are a most heinous violation of our precious zero-tolerance policies and must be expunged from our schools forthwith!


4 posted on 09/23/2010 9:33:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Guess what, TSA doesn’t consider lighters as weapons now. Why would NJ schools? Oh yeah, whatever happened to common sense? Have we arrived at zero tolerance for common sense now?


5 posted on 09/23/2010 9:38:25 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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"...Jamesburg Police Chief Martin Horvath says he believes the school took appropriate action..."

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That part from the article is especially unfortunate.
Police Chief Horvath is yet another statist automaton.

6 posted on 09/23/2010 9:38:32 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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The superintendent says a weapon is anything that "has the potential to cause harm."
How 'bout a Websters up side your pin head Mr. Stuperintendent.
10 posted on 09/23/2010 9:43:00 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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As a little boy in elementary school I carried a Boy Scout (Cub Scout?) knife and a Zippo lighter as part of my EDC.


12 posted on 09/23/2010 9:45:21 AM PDT by ansel12 ([fear of Islam.] Once you are paralyzed by fear of Mohammedanism...you have lost the battle.)
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I’m actually an alumnae of said institution! It was at that time a junior high.


15 posted on 09/23/2010 9:50:52 AM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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Last week my 11th grade son in government school asked to borrow my grill lighter. His Chemistry teacher asked the students in the AP class to each bring in a lighter for a lab because the school could not afford it due to budget cuts. I asked him if he will get in trouble for bringing a banned item to school; his response was the teacher told them to be sure to hide it so they don’t get into trouble...


18 posted on 09/23/2010 9:59:34 AM PDT by rightsmart
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Officials suspended a fifth-grader in New Jersey who found a lighter on his way to school..... the 11-year-old boy's father questioned why school officials consider the lighter a weapon.

Well, if you flick a lighter, and you happen to have one of those old time bombs, the black ones with the fuse, you could light the bomb with the lighter.

Q.E.D.

19 posted on 09/23/2010 10:05:17 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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Have you ever been hit with a book? OUCH!


23 posted on 09/23/2010 10:15:30 AM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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A weapon? Obviously the left has lost its collective mind.


24 posted on 09/23/2010 10:19:42 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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I remember formulating nitrogen tri-iodide crystals in Jr. High School and scattering them in the hallway before class change. Good times! Countless hours were also wasted collecting dead batteries and salvaging them for the zinc. We would dissolve the zinc in Muriatic acid to produce hydrogen gas which we would capture in balloons. We would tie off the balloon with a string which we would then set on fire and release. The resulting fireballs were glorious. To this day, I don’t know why we hated the planet so much. If people get their panties in a twist over a lighter, I’m sure if a kid did anything that was remotely scientific, they would live out their days in a Homeland Security compound. Remember Kids! Science is Magic Made Dangerous!


25 posted on 09/23/2010 10:20:29 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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Jamesburg Police Chief Martin Horvath says he believes the school took appropriate action.

Another reason why "Cops Cause Crime": Blind and deaf bureaucratic, institutional loyalty replaces common sense.

28 posted on 09/23/2010 10:25:47 AM PDT by bvw
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Belts have the potential to be used to disrupt class or to be used as a weapon. In my improvised weapons class in the Army we were shown how pens and pencils can be used as improvised punch daggers.
31 posted on 09/23/2010 10:30:25 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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Wonder how soon expelling gas will be considered a weapon?


33 posted on 09/23/2010 10:34:58 AM PDT by Logical me
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The time has come to stop tolerating incompetent school administrators and teachers.
We must take back the school boards, and kick-out unions, and NEA.


39 posted on 09/23/2010 10:53:24 AM PDT by J Edgar
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Maybe they were afraid he was going to burn a Koran.


43 posted on 09/23/2010 11:37:51 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: JoeProBono; DixieOklahoma; reuben barruchstein; theprophetyellszambolamboromo; Alusch; ...
e-mail the idiots
 
Gail S. Verona Ed.D
Superintendent of Schools
 
Jamesburg Public Schools
13 Augusta Street
Jamesburg, NJ 08831
Main Office: 732-521-0303
Fax: 732-521-1267
 
Chief of Police
Martin Horvath
732.521.0011 ext. 205

mhorvath@jamesburgborough.org

47 posted on 09/23/2010 7:57:39 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion, Euthanasia & FOCA - - don't Obama and the Democrats just kill ya!)
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How do you think this would go over? Photobucket More about this here http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/atomictoys/GilbertU238Lab.htm
48 posted on 09/23/2010 8:23:25 PM PDT by Hotmetal (Support the castle, defend the flag. 858TH Engineering Battalion)
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