Students suspended for bringing in toy guns

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

[Dark Knight]

Did you notice that a toy changed into a weapon?

>>"Bringing weapons to school is against school rules," said Superintendent Mickey Brandmeyer. "Unfortunately the students and the parents knew the school rule and chose to bring a weapon to school anyways."<<

That is one reality deprived administrator.

DK

[kinoxi]

Your issues are well spouted. Please continue.

[Cobra64]

Bingo!

[TheCrusader]

"I don't think the students were told to bring fake guns to school, call it a hunch..."

The request (to bring guns) is rather implicit, as my last post attempted to show. War is about fighting with guns. What other props could they have brought to a war project? Perhaps a Flag and a sling shot? Hell, the sling shot would have been illegal too, and the Revolutionary War flag looks too much like the first Confederate National flag, another taboo prop. I guess they could have come dressed as Minute Men, carrying...... let's see..... what did those 'ol Minute Men carry? OOPS - guns? I think they chose the LOGICAL props, the problem being we live in ILLOGICAL, PC, insane times.

[Cobra64]

That world sounds great. I just don't see it here and now.

Have you thought about... why?

[kinoxi]

If it was implicit why were only three students punished?

[jwh_Denver]

"I have to fall on the side of the school here."

You actually think a toy gun and a hand made gun are threatening? Good grief.

[kinoxi]

I don't think that.Read the thread ace. I know that. I've seen it. What is your point?

[taxesareforever]

Unbelievable. The parents and the kids knew the rule and violated it and now they feel like victims. Must be democrats. Rules are only made to keep Republicans in line since they are such a motley lot. /s

[BlackbirdSST]

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."

By my read, Long Guns are A OK! Blackbird.

[kinoxi]

Three children out of the entire class/school get detention for acting like idiots and this is turned into a second amendment issue.

[Hawthorn]

> If kept on site, the toy guns would have to be locked up in a secure cabinet! <

Yes, and they must be unloaded -- with the ammunition stored in a separate, locked place.

Oh, and don't forget the trigger locks!

[Hawthorn]

> They were doing a Revolutionary War project and were told to bring in props. So what other "war props" should they have brought in that would have been ok? <

Maybe fifes and drums?

[Feiny]

"However, when I found out I was getting in-school suspension, I would usually do something bad enough to bump my punishment up to out of school suspension, which in actuality is much easier."

BRILLLIANT (read that like the Guinness guys)

[TheCrusader]

"Maybe fifes and drums?"

Yeah, that's how we beat the British in the Revolutionary War, we 'drummed' them out of America.

[Thunder90]

From the same people who tried to ban the US flag within schools but allow those from Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq (saddam era)

[Thunder90]

What's next? Schools banning sports because it offends people and could hurt students??? Or the prospect of the instrements of the game being used as weapons???

These idiots are the same ones who suspended a kid for bringing a plastic butterknife to school with his lunch, and are the ones who banned the US flag in/on the school because it was not "Multicultural".

[Thunder90]

Next... Re-enactments of the Revolutionary war are banned because it offends Native groups.... How far will this stuff go?

[supercat]

Understand that bureaucrats in general, and school administrators specifically, make "zero-tolerance" rules to free themselves from making decisions.

I thought they were a result of PC.

Student #1, who is black, brings in a loaded gun, points it at another student, and only misses killing him because another brave student grabbed at the gun before it fired.

Student #2, who is white, brings in a keychain with a 1/8-scale plastic Luger.

Since (according to Jesse Jackson et al.) the only explanation for a decision to punish student #1 but not student #2 would be the fact that the former is black, and since it's obviously necessary to punish the former student, consequently it's necessary to punish the latter student as well.

[CountryBumpkin]

"Bringing weapons to school is against school rules," said Superintendent Mickey Brandmeyer. "Unfortunately the students and the parents knew the school rule and chose to bring a weapon to school anyways."

Historically speaking, hands and feet are far more lethal weapons than plastic or wooden toy guns. Why not ban hands and feet? Typical math and science textbooks can pack quite a wallop. Why not ban them, too? But it's the occasional deviant student mind you really have to be careful about, so you might as well ban all students from schools to really ensure public safety.