Posted on 02/08/2007 7:05:30 AM PST by pabianice
Joshua Enos, of Denmark, Maine, is a member of the American Trap Association (ATA), and has been a member since he was 13. Joshua is graduating from his high school (the Fryeburg Academy, in Fryeburg, Maine) this year, and had submitted to his high school a picture of him with his shotgun--unloaded, broken, and draped over his shoulders. The school refused to use this photo, because it showed a firearm in it. Joshua's father asked if he could be in the Alternative Sports section of the yearbook. The answer was: "no" with a gun, but "yes" with his trophies. His father then took a picture of Joshua with some of his trophies, but the school is now refusing to use this photo because the trophies have guns on them!
To make your views known on this issue, please contact the school via Headmaster Dan Lee, at (207) 935-2001, extension 116, 745 Main St., Fryeburg, ME 04037.
If I stick my head in the sand and pretend violence and bad people don't exist then everything WILL BE OK!!!
/sarc
There was a girl who got suspended from graduation ceremonies that she was supposed to Valedictorian at because she submitted a picture of herself for the yearbook with a gun in it. What gun you ask? It was the cannon in front of the American Legion. She was also the leader of the school's Jr. ROTC program. Genius, pure bleepin' genius.
just another good reason to homeschool.
We have to be afraid of guns.
We NEED gun control laws.
Most people can't be trusted - so we need gun laws - which most people will obey because they can be trusted.
How's that for logic.
Here's more logic - criminals don't obey laws so let's put more laws on the books so their victims (who DO obey laws) will be further restricted.
There was some nonsense a few years back about some kid carrying a GI Joe onto an airplane and he wasn't allowed to bring the 3 inch plastic rifle for fear he might hijack the plane with it.
Why are we letting these people educate our children?
< liberal >
You can't have your picture in the yearbook, because YOU'RE HOLDING A GUN!
But, Mr. Lee, it's my skeet gun - I won a trophy___
Guns are dangerous, boy!
But, Mr. Lee, the gun is broken down and safely....
Especially broken-down guns!
But, Mr. Lee, that means that it's folded for carrying__
We can't have a gun in our yearbook!
But, Mr. Lee, it's a good picture of ___
If people see that gun, they'll think that we're a violent school!
What?
Everybody will want one!
What the ?
Thousands of kids will die!
But, Mr. Lee...
< /liberal >
Oftentimes these threads quickly devolve into a dumping contest on public schools, so I thought it would be helpful to comment early that the school in question in this thread is a private school.
NH eh?
Live Free or Die! or puss out like that Londonderry HS.
The left has infiltrated the educational establishment. 2 of the left's goals are to eliminate God and guns.
God, because communism is the only giver of laws and rules for living.
Guns, because communism can't be imposed as long as citizens have guns.
Praise the Lord, Big Brother will take care of us.
Private school, huh? So his parents have CHOSEN to have their child educated by these fools?
Well, I can tell you that the next book I edit and publish will have no school administrators in it.
I know this is wayy past time but a correction of Fryeburg Academy. It is a semi private school and the local 7 towns go there for free as a public school. My parents didn’t choose for me to go there.. It just part of MSAD 72 so we HAD to go there.
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