Posted on 12/16/2008 8:12:26 AM PST by marktwain
Randolph Elementary School parents and guardians received messages Thursday about a 10-year-old boy who showed off a broken BB gun on his way home from school Wednesday afternoon.
According to police, the boy showed the gun to three other students. The students told their parents, who reported the incident to the school. School officials then told police.
Capt. Jim Davidsaver said officers contacted the boy at his home Thursday, recovered the BB gun, cited him for disturbing the peace and referred him to the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office.
According to an e-mail sent to parents, the school has taken disciplinary action.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148776/posts
Lets try that link to the Wisconsin thread again:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148776/posts
“...officers contacted the boy at his home Thursday, recovered the BB gun,...”
WTF???
They confiscated a BB GUN????? On what kind of warrant??
Prolly pointed it at a muslim.....
Leftwing lunatics disturb my peace — when can we start to arrest them?
I have wondered for some time if this country has not gone insane.
When we elected Obama, there was little doubt. Now there is none.
No Running, No Jumping: The War Against Boys in Our Schools
By Charles W. Colson
Commentary from BreakPoint
The Cleveland Avenue School in Atlanta has all the amenities you would expect a new school to have: computer equipment, an up-to-date library, and modern classrooms. It has everything except a playground.
No, it wasn't an oversight. It was designed that way, in order to make little boys behave more like little girls. And it's part of a trend.
In 1998, Atlanta eliminated recess in its elementary schools. Other cities, like Philadelphia, retained something called recess, but it bears little resemblance to the unstructured play time most of us enjoyed as kids.
Why? As Christina Hoff Sommers says in her new book, THE WAR AGAINST BOYS, educators today are intolerant of boys acting like boys -- moving, making noise, and engaging in raucous play. This intolerance goes beyond the need for order and discipline. The rule is "no running and no jumping," and boys who engage in normal active play are frequently punished or sent home.
When boys aren't being punished for being boys, they are being medicated to accomplish the same result. It is revealing that 95 percent of the kids on Ritalin today -- a drug used to treat hyperactivity -- are boys.
As Michael Gurian, the author of THE GOOD SON, puts it, "If Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] were in today's schools, they would be labeled ADD, having attention deficit disorder, and drugged."
Behind this campaign against what Sommers calls "youthful male exuberance" is, in her words, "misguided feminism." Many feminists insist that it is maleness itself -- defined by characteristics like aggressiveness, competitiveness, and assertiveness -- that causes violence.
This view has found its most receptive audience in education...
Rest of article here: http://www.worthynews.com/breakpoint/no-jumping.html
Let’s see - what other tool would incite such fear when displayed...
hammers? no.
screwdrivers? maybe... (Bernie Goetz)
1 inch pocket knife? probably.
criminalizing america one student at a time....
here was a comment on the subject attached to the story:
” The child wasn’t even on school property and the school is involved in this incident. LPS just can’t get their “policies” straight as last year my child was being bullied on his way home from school and I was told by the principal that because it was happening off of school grounds they could not get involved. Typical for LPS politics. It seems as if the police went overboard as well. He is a 10 year old boy! “
i have had the same prolem here with florida schools, step son was being bullied coming from bus stop. school said nothing they can do about it. but when someone reported that my teen daughter was smoking on the way to the bus stop they couldn’t get to her fast enough. brought her to the deans office (male) along with her friend where he searched them both then contacted the parents. according to him they had jurisdiction over her from the time she walked out our front door til she returned back home after school...wtf??!!! i guess you have to watch your calander and know what day it is....
“A very disturbing trend, to use “disturbing the peace” as a catch all when no crime was committed...”
Furthermore, this case was based on nothing but HEARSAY! Man, we’re in trouble if that is grounds for arrest!
(Yeah officer, I heard it from my friend that his friend’s brother...)
I’m surprised they didn’t taize him.
Criminalizing boy stuff. Good God....
Damn, and I just bought my 9 yr old son a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas. I figure it beats hell out of another video game at half the price. Plus I got a bunch of targets and enough ammo for him to hold off an army of lib’rul activists. I guess I can’t have him take it to school though.
I would be disturbed too. Kids should take better care of their weapons and the thing shouldn't have been broken. Otherwise, I would take great offense at the school getting involved in what kids do off school property and the police getting involved in a friendly discussion between boys.
Good to see that the donut munchers have this much spare time.
Good thing they caught him ... might have put his eye out ... broken or not ....
Good grief, the kid was showing some friends a BB gun - a broken one at that. Untwist your panties, liberal bureaucrats!
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