Posted on 09/15/2006 2:50:40 PM PDT by Trust but Verify
Some FReepers might be familiar with the 'popper' in question. It is a small pouch of some type of 'explosive' with a string at either end that when pulled causes the thing to pop. It is very similar to those little paper things that pop when you throw them to the ground.
Note, the school actually considered calling the police.
Overreaction.
it's a quagmire..the education system must redeploy to okinawa immediately..
in all honesty, this punishment is WAY overboard..just sit him down and tell him not to do it again..it probably scared him as much as everyone else..
idiot principal.
Good Grief! We used to tie those to EVERYTHING when I was in school. Our teachers expected a pop when they opened their desk drawers. I would never make it through school today.
My daughter is 5; she would not at all understand what she had done wrong, they play with these at birthdays. The suspension is absurd. You tell the kid this is not the place to play with those and that should have been it. Call the police, my goodness, some teachers and administrators should be locked up.
"district policy required she call the police because the popper qualifies as an explosive device."
All she had to do was NOT call the popper an explosive device! Read: The Death of Common Sense. This should have a page in there all it's own.
I'm rolling on the floor laughing, not with the principal, but at her.
I'm sorry, these excellent public schools that so many defend just slay me.
NO EXPLOSIVE DEVICES. (ROTFL) (snapping fingers is up to individual authorities)
What it should state and make parents sign is a statement acknowledging that no individuality is allowed. And especially no BOY STUFF.
I understand order has to be kept, so don't tell me. Especially if one is warehousing 20-30 small children in a room.
(still laughing)
I hope my state finally passes the school vouchers. At least we have some charter schools here, but it would be nice to have full school choice.
Zero Tolerance=Zero Common Sense
"........popper qualifies as an explosive device."
thats like saying my 36 inch TV qualifies for a drive-in movie.
What a friggin' joke. Homeschool them youngin's!!!
So, does the entire school get suspended if the cafeteria serves beans that day?
OMFG, what the hell has happened to the US? We're raising a generation of wimps. My entire school, K-12, would have been suspended these days, with our water guns, dart gun wars, and dreaded exposive devices such as pop-pops.
I love the zero tolerance idiocy of government educrats. It never ceases to amaze me that the people who are supposed teach us information we need to function in society and how to think, refuse to use any of that material themselves.
my 1st grader has to have a see thru backpack and they are always making him sell stuff and i don't make him sell nothing...seems they spend more time raising money than they do learning....what a mess...
>Note, the school actually considered calling the police.<
The da--ed bullies! This is a "no tolerance" policy taken four days too far.
That is a really good one. Made me laugh. Thanks.
I remember bringing cap guns to school. Imagine what would happen to me now (gun and 'explosives').
The teacher is a total moron.
While they're obsessing about this non-event, there are a couple of losers up in Green Bay planning Columbine Deux, which I'd like to point out, was handled impeccably by the school and law enforcement there.
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