If you're going to be expelled for bringing a toy gun to school, make it count.
Posted on 09/17/2010 10:51:08 AM PDT by Scythian
Parents want their child back in school. School board says no way
Print Share Buzz up!62retweetTOP1K5diggsdigg Samuel Burgos has fond memories of his friends at school, but he only gets to see them in pictures now.
The 8-year-old boy hasn't been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way.
Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher found a toy gun in his backpack. But when the boy went to register to go back to Pembroke Pines Charter School, he was told he will be expelled for this school year, too, as part of the county's zero tolerance weapons policy.
"He made a mistake, but why the severe punishment? I don't understand that," said Magdiel Burgos, Sam's dad.
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So you’re what, 33 - 36 or so??
I had similar experiences (I’m 33).
It’s amazing how much things have changed in that regard in such a short time.
Even smoking. I never smoked, but I remember kids who got caught...the worst that happened was the assistant principal took their smokes (and smoked them himself) and maybe a 2-day suspension.
If you're going to be expelled for bringing a toy gun to school, make it count.
Time to convene class at the courthouse.
I’m 30, so we’re in the same ballpark.
Smoking was STRICTLY verboten! I remember a friend of mine getting caught in his car smoking a cig between classes. They made him write an essay and suspended him for 2 days as well. Hell, we would get detention if we were caught with a beeper or a cell phone (they weren’t ubiquitous at that time), and don’t get me started about the penalties for chewing gum!
I was back at my parents house a few weeks ago going through pictures of me in the 2nd grade circa 1992. I apparently was Indiana Jones that year for Halloween, I had a toy gun as part of my costumes and there are pictures of me playing with my toy gun at the school! I am sure that if I would have brought my toy gun to school in this day and age, I would have been kicked out of school, and CPS would have been called, and my whole life would be ruined by the Liberals who care about the kids.
I love all the FReeper’s screaming “Sue!” Duh. This is why all the schools districts couldn’t give a big rat’s ass about this. They have a gov lawyer and if they lose it comes from the tax payer. Duh.
As for the kid, mommy and daddy should have been homeschooling him already, duh.
During high school I took my Mossberg .22 autoloader to shop class to refinish the stock and mount a scope (graduated 1961).
At times teachers would borrow a pocket knife (which every boy carried) to open a package or cut some string...
I really believe that the US peaked in the 60's and has been sliding downhill ever since. It is way past time we stood up and said enough PC, it's time we spoke plainly and demanded our country back. This November will be a test that we had better not fail!
Regards,
GtG
Gum was tolerated, beepers were a no-no (cell phones really hadn’t hit yet).
Smoking penalties got much worse as I went through school. My uncle who graduated from the same high school I did in 1980, 15 years before me, said they used to smoke WITH the teachers back then!
Our Principal banned cigarettes in the school building (so I switched to cigars). We never smoked in the building or grounds but one of the "tuff" girls was smoking across the street when the bell rang and she tweaked the end off and put the butt back in her pack which was in her coat pocket. About 20 minutes later we had a fire drill as smoke was coming from her locker (two doors down from his office), hence the ban. He used to call me the "Panatella Kid", I also used to go for the "Wolf Brothers Rum Crooks". He never made an issue of the cigars.
Regards,
GtG
Is a toy gun a weapon? Surely, the School Board can be sued
over this stupidity!
When I was in the fourth grade the teacher would borrow a knife from one of the boys if she needed to open a package or something, we all carried pocket knives. She liked to eat an apple every day but she didn’t normally use a knife for that, she just put both hands on it and twisted it in two in the center. No I am NOT joking, she did it, I never could understand it, she said it was easy if you ever learn how.
That was America in the fifties. A knife was a portable tool, not a weapon.
Lawyers must love this case. This family should, eventually, get a nice money settlement out of this. Two years is a stretch, for a TOY gun.
The leftist vermin are trying their hardest to destroy this innocent child’s life. It’s what they do best and it’s the only thing they do.
He better be getting home-schooled. If the parents can’t make it happen then everyone in that community, especially the school officials, needs to see a REAL gun pointing at their worthless faces.
Just tell him that stupid insane leftist vermin are running the school and we have to obey their rules until the time arrives to run them out of the country.
I went to public school and it turned me into a radical leftist for a while. It took them a long time to destroy my childhood innocence mostly because I had a good family life. By age 16 I had no soul left.
Right now, my only goal in life is to hunt down, torture, and slaughter as many leftist vermin as I possibly can. NONE of them are innocent. They ALL must suffer.
That makes two of us. We went to a Country school and the bigger boys would help the girls cut long twigs to make arrows for the bows. We never shot out anyone’s eye nor drew blood. Every boy worth his salt carried a pocket knife—nobody got stabbed nor cut. Our water came from a Spring the big kids carried to the school in a water bucket. We all used the same dipper—nobody died from Typhoid fever nor Strep throat. We even had outdoor privvies! I could go on for an hour but won’t. We had so much fun at school and we learned more than we ever did in a town school! Big kids helped the little ones etc. What a MESS we’ve made over the past 50-60 years trying to “improve” Public Education!
Here’s an even better idea:
DON’T have children!
No one can possibly protect them from leftist influence. There is at least a 50% chance that they will be corrupted or destroyed no matter where they are.
Yes!...Homeschooling is the best, most natural, and healthiest way to rear a child to self-confident and self-sufficient maturity.
Yes!...It is true that not everyone can homeschool. There are parents that are too poor, too stupid, too dysfunctional, too distracted, too selfish, too career-minded, too ill-educated, too mentally or physically ill, etc.
Yes! It is a shame that some children will be better off being institutionalized for their schooling. We need orphanages, too, but no one claims that it is the best way to rear a child.
They are “government” schools. There is nothing relevantly “public” about them,...
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And...Government schools are the **MOST** segregated institutions in America! There is absolutely no private entity in the U.S. that comes even close, (in numbers, scope, and pervasiveness,) to the economic, social class, and racial segregation found in our nation’s government schools!
Just as it took government to create and enforce Jim Crow in the South, only government force could pull off the wide spread segregation found in government schooling.
AMEN!!!
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