Posted on 06/26/2014 12:22:51 PM PDT by Bon of Babble
A 13-year-old New Jersey boy was suspended from school Thursday for twirling his pencil around in math class and making another student uncomfortable.
Ethan Chaplin, a 7th-grader at Glen Meadow Middle School in Vernon Township, was twirling around a pencil with a pen cap on it when a student behind him yelled, “He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie!” a local news station reported.
The school suspended Ethan and ordered him to undergo a physical and psychological evaluation, his father, Michael Chaplin, told the station.
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Pavlov is smiling somewhere in Hell right now...
“He’s making GUN motions!” Ridiculous.
Damn... how the hell did we let this happen to us?
I was SHOOTING by the time I was 10. Junior NRA, .22 competitions, the whole works.
Taught my kids when they 8 and 5.
Vini is a bit young for the estreet band.
Ban Pencils!!!
That incident fully explains my messed up personality and obviously was the cause of the loss of any ability I had to deal with people in any socially acceptable manner. If it wasn't for FR it would have totally ruined my life. The only benefit of the twirling ... I taught my children to never, ever twirl anyone.
Pencil twirling is a sign of drug use?
I used to throw pencils up into the ceiling tiles.
Guess that puts me on a list somewhere.
That certainly may be the case, but whatever level of mischief was intended, kids really can’t fully comprehend the evil in the dark hearts of the sick bullies running the schools.
Too often, schools refuse to discern the difference between dumb kids doing dumb kid things, and actual threats. I think the edu-thugs are in the habit of projecting their evil hearts onto the students.
““school policy requires an investigation when anyone in the school feels uncomfortable or threatened by another student.””
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Uncomfortable???
What the hell does that really mean?
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Get as many parents as possible to go to the next School Board Meeting, then tell them to expunge the kids record of any wrongdoing, and fire the “sociopathic thugs running the school”, or recall petitions against the lot of them will be started immediately.
Then there is a real dilemma... A school has banned cupcakes for birthday parties and suggested having pencils as substitutes... There might be a problem if they banned pencils too.
This story is from April.
At present the only one covering it with updates is Alex Jones, and I don’t believe they will allow hyperlinks from him here, but I found one on Google.
If you Google the story you will find a lot of facts that came out after this story, plus there were several threads on FR about this topic as well.
I agree with you. I’m in NJ and if or when I have children, I will homeschool
IF every kid would just pick one random kid each day and tell the school that the other kid made them “uncomfortable”. What would they do, suspend half the students every day?
We won’t beat these stupid rules until so many people mock them that the state can no longer think about enforcing them.
FR has restrictions on sources for posted articles, but as far as I know hyperlinks from comments are unrestricted. Alex Jones on this story: http://www.infowars.com/new-jersey-cps-threatens-to-confiscate-pencil-twirling-student-from-dad/
Thank you. I know this story continues to evolve, and every few days I hear an update on it, usually on the radio, not in the printed papers.
In high school I had a food fight in the cafeteria. When it was over, the lunch monitor asked who the other guy was. I replied that it was none of her business and it was over, the. I walked to my locker for a clean shirt
Nothing more was said.
HF
I think the kid who yelled out is the one who needs a psychological evaluation. I’m glad my youngest is in college so I don’t have to suffer through this nonsense in our schools.
Well it’s a good thing he wasn’t packing a rubber band gun! We’d break those out and have full on wars in the classroom when the teacher stepped out or even turned their backs for a few minutes. My 8th grade science class had all sorts of airplane models hanging in the class room that we took great pleasure in shooting down over the school year!
not only that, Child Services came to the house, made him strip under the covers of his bed, took a urine test and then a blood test where he passed out.
Then, after he was cleared, they pressed charges against his father for NOT taking him to counseling.
It can’t get any worse than this.
Also, this is Sussex County, NJ, Scott Garrett territory, the most conservative area in the state and this nonsense still happens.
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