Posted on 11/18/2007 6:33:14 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
PHOENIX - The family of a teenage skeet shooter is complaining that school officials overreacted by suspending the girl for inadvertently leaving two unopened boxes of shotgun shells in her car when she drove to school. High school senior Kim Peters said she fears the punishment will cloud her permanent record as she applies to colleges. Her family is fighting the Dysart Unified School District to get the offense, possession of a "dangerous instrument," expunged. Administrators stand by their decision and rejected the family's first appeal. "We can never comment on a specific situation with a student (due to privacy laws), but what I can say is that whenever we are dealing with any infraction . . . our duties involve keeping students in a safe and secure environment," Dysart Superintendent Gail Pletnick said. Peters, 17, called her own actions "careless" but said she doesn't feel the punishment fits the crime. Peters, who has won several skeet-shooting trophies, said her 12-hour-a-week practice schedule got so hectic that she forgot to take the ammunition out of her vehicle as she was running late for school last week. There was no gun. Willow Canyon High School administrators disciplined Peters after a security guard noticed the shells in the back seat of Peters' car. She is scheduled to return to school Tuesday.
so silly....we used to carry our guns in our car at school...to hunt before or after
the feminization of amerika continues
no guns kids...just soccer...and everyone gets a trophy and hugs
At the beginning of the war of northern agression. What we see now is just the culmination.
And in that case, if someone threw a wall-mounted fire extinguisher in that fire, when it exploded, it could be more dangerous than a shotgun shell that only catches on fire.
More to the point of the story, just what exactly is a “dangerous device”? We could walk into any school building and quickly see things that anyone could turn into such a thing. For instance, we could break a fluorescent light bulb and either contaminate someone with a hazardous substance, or we could cut them with the glass. We could also look in the custodian closet to see what drain cleaners where in easy reach. We could rip open the office copier and either suffocate someone with the toner or poison them with it.
The most dangerous thing in this whole story is not the shotgun shells, but the school officials who cannot understand that it is not the object that is dangerous, but the use of the object. Going even further with that idea, it was government officials who proved to be far more dangerous than shotgun shells to public safety and welfare by their policies and decisions in, for example, the deaths from hurricane Katrina.
Yeah...friggin idiots. Words simply escape me. I’ve been telling everybody for 7 years now NOT to willingly support the gov’t school systems.
While that happens too, in this case she was late and parked in a lot where students are not allowed. The campus cop may have noticed this from a distance or he may do patrols for it. When he went up to the vehicle to leave a ticket for the parking thing he saw the ammo. For the life of me, I can’t imagine how they construe shotgun ammo as a “dangerous instrument” in the absence of a shotgun.
Beyond stupid...
Eaker ain’t even on this thread ............;O)
Ahem.
Tapping toe.....
I heard that!
I hope she makes the Olympic team. when she's being interviewed she can mention how even her school tried to prevent her from accomplishing her goal.
hey, Hey, HEY! {:0)
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