Posted on 09/24/2013 8:08:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When do schools assume legal responsibility for your children? At the school, on the bus, or at the bus stop? The latter is likely the best answer, but no one believes that it starts in your front yard, seventy feet away from the bus stop. Nobody, that is, except perhaps the Virginia Beach City Public School System, which may expel Khalid Caraballo today for shooting a non-lethal pellet pistol in his own front yard last week:
A suspended seventh grade Virginia Beach student will find out soon if he is expelled for the rest of the year for shooting an airsoft gun.
Like thousands of others in Hampton Roads, Khalid Caraballo plays with airsoft guns. Caraballo and his friend Aidan were suspended because they shot two other friends who were with them while playing with the guns as they waited for the school bus.
The two seventh graders say they never went to the bus stop; they fired the airsoft guns while on Caraballo’s private property.
The school says that Khalid and his friends shot pellets “at people near the bus stop,” and that one student was within ten feet of the stop when targeted. The school has a responsibility to secure the stop and to impose discipline for the safety of its students. If they can establish that the horseplay did involve the bus stop and students who didn’t want to participate, then they would likely have legal grounds to address the situation.
That still leaves the matter of expelling a student for playing with pellet pistols without malice, and who may just have been careless while playing on his own property. This might call for detention to make a point, but it’s impossible to imagine that this incident alone makes Khalid so ungovernable that he should be expelled for an entire school year for it. Given Khalid’s concerns over the incident, it’s even less imaginable:
Khalid said he will never do this again. “It’s terrible. I won’t get the chance to go to a good college. It’s on your school record. The school said I had possession of a firearm. They aren’t going to ask me any questions. They are going to think it was a real gun, and I was trying to hurt someone. They will say ‘oh, we can’t accept you.’ “
This looks very much like another case of zero-tolerance rules running adults rather than the other way around.
From Fox:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/23509016/boys-suspended-for
Khalid Caraballo, 13, and his friend, Aidan, were suspended after they shot two other friends with the guns while waiting for the school bus, the station reports.
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There were 2 suspended. And a hearing is being held today concerning it.
http://www.fox43tv.com/web/fox43tv/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far
Boys punished for airsoft guns in yard
Has zero tolerance gone too far?
Solangel says, "That is exactly my point. It is private property."
http://www.fox43tv.com/web/fox43tv/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far
YA KNOW AS THE BARBARIAN WORLD READS REPORTS OF THIS SISSIFICATION CRAP THE MORE EMBOLDENED THEY BECOME AND THE MORE LIKELY THEY CONCLUDE AMERICA IS A NATION OF SCARED WOMEN; A NATION OF EASY MARKS AND THE MORE LIKELY THEY’LL MAKE MOVES AGAINST US....I WONDER IF THE MORONIC BOOBS WHO PERPETRATE THIS CRAP EVER CONSIDER THIS EVENTUALITY...PRETTY STUPID OF THEM ACTUALLY...! DANGEROUS TO...!
‘WITNESS OUR FECKLESS ENEMY, AKMAD....THEY ARE A NATION OF SICKENING PATHETIC SHEEP...THEY LACK EVEN THE MORAL FORTITUDE TO TEACH THEIR CHILDREN TO PROTECT THEMSELVES....SURLY WE CAN DEFEAT THESE YELLOW DHIMMIS WITH NO EFFORT WHATSOEVER..’
Doesn’t matter how many posts or threads there are. The government school has it wrong.
Here is the letter from Virginia Beach Public Schools:
The boys (3?) were given long term suspension. The parents of one said he would home school his son.
http://www.fox43tv.com/web/fox43tv/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far
Government and government schools seem free to extend their control into your back yard and I am sure your house.
So much for private property.
Just like the father who was assaulted by that black security guard for speaking out against Common Core (I would have gouged that POS’s eyes out), we can no longer speak negatively about the government in a public setting.
Folks, the noose is almost closed around our neck.
Almost every endeavor in life is under some form of attack by our government.
We have no functioning constitution which now at its very best represents a minor speed bump on the government’s march towards total domination.
While you can, and only you can do this:
NEVER send you child/grandchild to government schools.
1) Home School if you have the time and ability
2) Private school if you have the money.
3) Non-union charter school
Anything else is not only child abuse but insuring the destruction of every last American value originally protected by America’s founders.
Unfortunately 99% reading this will not do it.
And that, my friend, “is the rest of the story.”
An important piece of info many are overlooking.
The kids at that school are getting an object lesson in governmental oppression. Also in how a punishment can be seen as a reward (no school).
In order for the tyrannical government to ensure they never meet with resistance or a revolt, the emasculation of boys (war on boys) continues..
Yup. I mean, c’mon, he could have taken someones eye out with that thing, but the muzzy gubmint wants to sissify him! I mean, what kind of REAL man would object to their eyes being injured?
you could seriously put an eye out with one of those things
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