Students suspended for bringing in toy guns

townline.com (MA) ^ | October 5, 2006 | Cheryl Lecesse

[dcrider182]

humf.. my school hat a zero Tolerance policy on Baseball hats.. I brought it to school one day. (parents divorced and needed the hat for a baseball game that night) it got taken away.. and i received a detention.. the reason to suspend ALL hats from school.. They were worried about kids taking other kids hats.. and gang issues.. ( I'm from Nor cal.. Eldorado hills.. where the pres just spoke a few days ago.. you can't get farther from gangs in 92 then there)

[elkfersupper]

Holy crap.

If people were doing this when I was a kid, I would have been serving a life sentence in federal prison by the age of 9.

[metmom]

HA! The kids on stage crew were carrying around one of those old cowboy pistols, the kind with the silver barrel and bone white handle, last year. Boy, did that bring back memories. I guess our little town's school is pretty laid back. I just hope the Dept of (un)Education doesn't find out about it.

[Pharmboy]

No...but this is THE key part of our history, and notice should have been given to allow toy guns that were revwar replicas. This antigun hysteria is a bit over the top...but I DO understand your point of view. No big arguments here, friend...

[metmom]

We survived with those old (60's era) rubber ones.

[elkfersupper]

Neither of my sons have any right to bring a threatening object onto school property.

Both my kids were required by me to carry knives with them everywhere they went (and keep them clean and sharp).

I conducted regular inspections and disciplined them if necessary.

[metmom]

The teachers here also carry pocket knives.

[kinoxi]

History is imperative. It needs to be taught. I don't see how students not carrying mock weapons onto school grounds interferes with this though.

[Libloather]

Page 19 of the Parents Handbook states, "Knives or other sharp objects hand guns, toy guns, weapon replicas, slingshots, matches, fireworks, or any other explosive materials are forbidden at school, or at any school sponsored activity or trip."

Unless the perps are bring 'em? It's time to amend page 19 of the Parents Handbook...

[scott7278]

Well, we all know that no guns were used in the Revolutionary War. We sat down with the British and overcame our differences by playing Pattycake.

[kinoxi]

I hope it works for you and your children. Around here they lock you up. Generally with no questions asked.

[SoldierDad]

The school probably has a specific room where students who are "suspended" from the classroom go and do their assignments for the required amount of time of the suspension.

[phoenix0468]

Whales are smarter than liberals.

[nralife]

It wasn't that many years ago (mid 50s and 60s and before, of course), when students were allowed to bring hunting rifles and shotguns to school (and keep them in their lockers) in many parts of the country, so they could be used for hunting on the way home. My, how things have changed. It's funny, but back then we didn't have any shooting incidents at school. Everyone was taught to treat firearms with respect, and they weren't forbiden fruit. Oh yea, lets not forget about high school ROTC members having their drill rifles at school.

[Ainast]

What ever happened to the classic swat? I remember i used to get 3 to 6 a day. (3 swats at a time.)

[elkfersupper]

I hope it works for you and your children. Around here they lock you up. Generally with no questions asked.

Everyone in my family was taught to never surrender their tools or their weapons.

There were drills.

[SoldierDad]

They lock you up in a little room with some hideous gorgon-like creature to watch over you.

The person who supervises the students in the "in-school suspension" room at the middle school where I work is a drop dead gorgeous young woman. I suspect that many of the male students who are placed there have an ulterior motive for getting kicked out of class.

[elmer fudd]

If people were doing this when I was a kid, I would have been serving a life sentence in federal prison by the age of 9.

Yeah, me too. I remember in high school a buddy of mine and I would go out camping and hunting in the national forest about every other weekend. We'd pack enough guns and ammo in the back of his Toyota to fight a small war and then park it in the school parking lot so we could leave right after school got out.

[kinoxi]

It wasn't that many years ago (mid 50s and 60s and before, of course), when students were allowed to bring hunting rifles and shotguns to school (and keep them in their lockers) in many parts of the country, so they could be used for hunting on the way home. My, how things have changed. It's funny, but back then we didn't have any shooting incidents at school. Everyone was taught to treat firearms with respect, and they weren't forbiden fruit. Oh yea, lets not forget about high school ROTC members having their drill rifles at school.

I reposted your entire post to me. That world sounds great. I just don't see it here and now.

[Libloather]

Those old (60's era) rubber ones may not be proper for the "upper crust"...